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…
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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…
European Commission explains why UK’s Data Protection Act is deficient
The European Commission has released details as to why it sees the UK Data Protection Act as an improper implementation of Directive 95/46/EC, so much so, that it is considering infraction proceedings. Correspondence between the Commission and the UK Government has been exchanged, and despite the possibility of litigation, very little has been published or…
Web users need more cookie control, says EU info security advisor
The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has published a report outlining how advertisers are using increasingly sophisticated varieties of cookie to identify web users. The technology could breach EU laws on privacy, it said. “In most cases users cannot easily manage cookies,” said ENISA’s report (16-page / 864KB PDF) “This is particularly true for…