Data protection authorities in Lower Saxony are stepping up their efforts to make it harder for German websites to pass along visitors’ IP addresses. If they succeed, it could mean the end of online advertising in Germany in its current form. The state’s data protection commissioner, Joachim Wahlbrink, has said that web sites should not…
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Ie: Judge’s report reveals allegations that Garda used phone records to spy on her ex
Mark Tighe has an important story in today’s Sunday Times about apparent abuse by a garda of the data retention system. Unfortunately it’s behind a paywall, but I’ve taken the liberty of scanning the hardcopy and placing it here as it raises a number of fundamental questions about the safeguards which are in place against…
AU: Data retention should last one year – AG
Darren Pauli reports: Bilateral talks with the United States to unify data retention legislation could lead to Australia keeping logs of its citizens’ online lives for a year. The talks, set for July this year, will lay the foundations to unify current data retention plans between the US, Europe and Australia. Governments have proposed that…
Google faces Swiss court showdown over Street View
Associated Press reports that Google has a court date in Switzerland this week over Street View. Federal data protection commissioner Hanspeter Thuer has asked Switzerland’s top administrative court to force Google to obscure all faces also caught by the cameras or take the service offline. The court in Bern will hear both sides’ arguments Thursday…