enigmax writes: Last year when thousands of Internet users had their privacy breached due to the actions of ACS:Law, watchdog Privacy International said it would pursue the anti-piracy law firm for breaching the Data Protection Act. Now, in PI’s 2010 report, there is a suggestion that BSkyB “contaminated” subscriber information it sent to ACS:Law, which…
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Woman awaits landmark ruling on sperm-donor identities
Petti Fong reports: For all of her life, Olivia Pratten has known only the barest details about her biological father. Born in 1981 after her mother visited a fertility specialist in Vancouver, she has been told only that her father is Caucasian and was a medical student at the time of donation. Genetically, all she…
UK: MP slams privacy laws as ‘waste of money’
A Conservative MP has slammed Britain’s privacy laws as “as waste of public money”, and says search giant Google should hand footage from its Street View cars over to the police without a court order. The call by Tory MP for Derbyshire South MP, Heather Wheeler, follows the disclosure by police last November of a picture…
Saskatchewan privacy legislation overhaul unlikely
James Wood reports: Gary Dickson’s call this week for a change to the province’s privacy laws to eliminate a gap around SGI’s handling of health information is just the latest plea from the province’s information and privacy commissioner for an overhaul of what he says is out-of-date legislation. But with only the spring sitting of…