Husna Yusop reports: The personal emails and SMSes on 1Malaysia and Chinese New Year (CNY) greetings that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak sent to Malaysians recently did not breach any privacy rules. In reply to Fong Po Kuan (DAP-Batu Gajah) and Teo Nie Ching (DAP-Serdang), he said when seeking for information on the…
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UK businesses must ‘wake up’ to new EU law on cookies, Information Commissioner warns
From the ICO, this press release: Businesses and other organisations running websites in the UK must ‘wake up’ to the fact that EU legislation, which will require them to get consent in order to store or access information on consumers’ computers, is coming into force soon, Information Commissioner Christopher Graham will say today in a…
GPS tracking for wife-bashers and AVO offenders, pledges NSW Premier Kristina Keneally
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…
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…