Eline Buvarp Aardal reports on a raid that was previously covered on this blog back in December, although at the time, it was reported that 2,000 people were affected. Italian police have asked colleagues in Norway to obtain personal information about the two bloggers from a server in Oslo. Server belong to the organization Autistici…
Category: Non-U.S.
UK: End of the road for ID cards
Phil Muncaster reports: The much criticised ID cards scheme is finally dead and buried after the government revealed on Friday that any cards issued can no longer be used to prove identity or travel within Europe. A brief statement on the Home Office web site explained that the final nail in the coffin would come…
In: Right To Privacy Vs Public Interest
Ranjeev C. Dubey reports: Wheels spin within wheels in every society and every form of government – capitalism, socialism, communism, theocracy, whatever – and one doesn’t always know who pulls which string. What Radiagate has done is show us how ministers have been selected in India in at least one case. Does the public bedlam…
AU: Privacy fears for phone data
Justin Norrie reports: Police would have access to the telephone records of missing people even when there was no suspicion of criminal activity under a plan that civil liberties activists say could lead to “gross invasions of privacy”. A federal bill to change surveillance laws would give state and federal police the power to inspect…