David Canton writes: When a government employee uses his or her workplace e-mail address to send and receive personal e-mails unrelated to their work, are those e-mails subject to disclosure to members of the public who request them under freedom of information legislation? Despite that these e-mails are generated on government computers, stored on government…
Category: Non-U.S.
AU: No penalty in lake council leak
Stephen Ryan reports: Lake Macquarie City Council has escaped a penalty after one of its employees forwarded a woman’s personal details to a man who then harassed the woman with threatening text messages, the Administrative Decisions Tribunal was told. The woman wrote a letter of complaint to a council manager in July 2008 about a…
Ie: Data Commissioner warns politicians against sending unsolicited texts
Laura O’Brien reports: The Data Protection Commission has cautioned political parties prior to the upcoming general election to only communicate with individuals over text, email or phone if they have consented to giving them these contact details. The commissioner Billy Hawkes has advised them not to obtain or use contact information through third parties and…
UK: Already-published information ensures anonymity for privacy case subject, rules court
A person identified in court papers as ‘Lina’ took photographs and video of a person identified as POI in a situation in which POI said they had a reasonable expectation of privacy. POI won an injunction preventing the publication of the private information, having argued that the the publishing of the information would breach their…