Natalie O’Brien and Eamonn Duff report: Thousands of clubbers and pub patrons are being forced to submit to fingerprint and photographic scans to enter popular venues, seemingly unaware of the ramifications of handing over their identity. Biometric scanners, once the domain of James Bond movies, are flooding the pub market as the fix-all solution to…
Category: Non-U.S.
Ph: Mandatory SIM registration pushed after bus blast
Kim Tan and Amita Legaspi report: A senator on Wednesday pushed for the mandatory registration of SIM cards after initial investigations showed that a cellphone was used to detonate the bomb inside a passenger bus the previous day. “This is a wake-up call,” said Sen. Vicente “Tito” Sotto III during a Senate inquiry on the…
Virgin Blue Slapped With Fine for Spamming
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has found Virgin Blue guilty of violating the country’s anti-spam laws. The agency said their investigation found that the company sent over 10,000 emails over a 2 month period to customers who had requested to be removed from their mailing list. According to the Spam Act, companies are required…
Bangladesh: ‘Privacy Commission’ demanded
A non-government organisation has demanded formation of independent ‘Privacy Commission’ in a bid to establish the rights of secrecy and protect personal information. ‘Voice,’ a development research organisation, made the demand at a press conference on Friday on the eve of International Privacy Day. The organisation also urged the government to amend the Telecommunications Act-2006…