Ben Grubb reports: Vodafone’s recent breach of privacy laws has triggered a check on all other telcos by the communications regulator, which is concerned poor practices are more widespread. One telco source said that Vodafone’s recent privacy woes had attracted significant scrutiny from the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), and the industry was being…
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Petition to Council of Europe on government use of citizens’ biometrics
The following item is open to signatures from organisations around the world. Please send your organisation’s intention to sign to privacyint@privacy.org 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…
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…