Courts in New South Wales would get the power to keep high-risk domestic violence offenders under constant surveillance with GPS tracking devices, under a re-elected Labor government. The plan is part of a $15.6 million package of measures designed to combat domestic and sexual violence unveiled by Premier Kristina Keneally today. The measures would also…
Category: Non-U.S.
UK: Lack of legal safeguards could lead to census data breaches, warns law professor
Kathleen Hall reports: Information from this month’s UK census is at risk of confidentiality breaches from data being shared with policing or intelligence services, a leading law professor has warned. Census data may be shared with other organisations if it is deemed to be in the interests of national security, says Douwe Korff, professor of…
Es: Spain’s Parliament Modifies DPA Penalty Authority As DPA’s Enforcement Efforts Scrutinized
This report comes to us from Gonzalo Gallego a partner in the Hogan Lovells privacy practice resident in Madrid: Spain has a new penalty regime for violations of privacy, with many minimum and maximum fines lowered. This is viewed as a business-friendly development at a time when the Spanish Data Protection Agency (“SPDA” or “Agency”) has earned a…
UK: RIPA changes in Freedoms Bill don’t protect privacy enough
Amberhawk Training writes: The “Protection of Freedoms Bill” has a wholly misleading title; the legislation simply does not do what it says on the tin. The CCTV provisions (see here) have more to do with efficient surveillance than privacy protection. We reviewed the Information Commissioner’s concerns about the use of personal data in DNA profiling…