A confidential February 2010 State Department cable from the Beijing office leaked by WikiLeaks contains this interesting news: (C) The Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) Institute of Intelligent Machines (IIM) in Hefei has developed a biometrics device that uses a person’s pace to identify them. The device measure weight and two-dimensional sheer forces applied by…
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UK: Anonymity proposed for teachers accused by pupils
Jaron Lewis writes: The controversial Education Bill was published on 26 January 2011. A proposed new restriction (clause 13 of the Bill) will apply where a pupil or their representative makes an allegation that their teacher has committed a criminal offence against a registered pupil at the teacher’s school. It will prohibit the publication of…
AU: Review of the Workplace Surveillance Act 2005 (NSW)
From the introduction of a recent submission of the Australian Privacy Foundation to the NSW Attorney General’s Department: The Workplace Surveillance Act 2005 (NSW) (‘the Act’) replaced the Workplace Video Surveillance Act 1998 (NSW) (‘the WVSA’), which only applied to video camera surveillance. The new Act also applies to additional forms of surveillance including email…
Sex-tape scandal pop star jailed
An Indonesian pop star whose sex tapes made in the privacy of his home home with celebrity girlfriends wound up on the Internet has been sentenced to three and a half years in jail. The “Peterporn” sex tapes scandal was widely followed in the press because of his popularity and because of Indonesia’s strict anti-porn…