The following item is open to signatures from organisations around the world. Please send your organisation’s intention to sign to [email protected] European governments are increasingly demanding storage of biometric data (fingerprints and facial scans) from individuals. These include storing them on contactless ‘RFID’ chips in passports and/or ID cards. Some are going even further and…
Category: Non-U.S.
AU: Accused win battle to delete web history
Geesche Jacobsen reports: Newspapers, including the Herald, have been ordered to remove old articles from their websites after a court ruled they might interfere with a fair trial. The decision, one of the first of its kind, came after lawyers for three accused men argued jurors might develop prejudice by reading any of 10 selected…
Data at Your Fingertips: Biometrics and the Challenges to Privacy
From the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada: Canadians are witnessing a growing interest among government and private-sector organizations in adopting systems that use biometric characteristics to automatically identify people or verify their identity. But whether a fingertip, a face or an iris is being scanned, what’s being collected is personal information about an…
AU: GPS Vehicle Tracking System in Car Rental Fleet Can Be Used to Fine Drivers
Christian W. writes: A vehicle rental company in Australia has made a controversial decision to install a GPS vehicle tracking system in roughly 30% of the vehicles in its car rental fleet. Using the GPS vehicle tracking system signal, the car rental company will be able to know in real time the exact location of…