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…
Category: Non-U.S.
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…
Norwegian police raid Autistici, scoop up records of 7,000 users
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…