Ruth Barnett reports: Suspects arrested by police should have anonymity until they are charged, an MP said as she launched an attack on press reporting of the Joanna Yeates murder case. Anna Soubry, Conservative MP for Broxtowe and a former journalist and barrister, said coverage of suspects in the case had been “unacceptable and plain…
Category: Non-U.S.
UK: Report explains council’s use of ‘snooping’ powers
Adrian Jenkins reports: A rare glimpse has been given into the use by council staff of controversial ‘snooping’ powers. South Derbyshire District Council officers lifted the lid on their secretive world following a request by members. In a report to a forthcoming overview and scrutiny committee, Andrea McCaskie, the authority’s head of legal and democratic…
NZ: Officer leaked police data to wife – and the dept. wouldn’t even investigate?!
I generally report breaches over on the companion blog, DataBreaches.net, but this news story about a privacy breach involving an “insider” took so long to come to light and to be handled that I want to mention it here. Jared Savage reports from New Zealand: A North Shore officer leaked secret information from the police…
In the UK, public’s right to know a criminal’s sensitive personal information extremely limited
A recent blog post generated some comments on Twitter about the privacy rights of criminals vs. the desire of victims’ families to know more and the public’s right or need to evaluate the performance of governmental agencies. While transparency and freedom of information are often clarion calls in the U.S., it appears that criminals in…