A Reuters report indicates that your home is not exactly your castle in Bhutan: Bhutan police can raid homes of smokers in a search for contraband tobacco and are training a special tobacco sniffer dog in a crackdown to honour a promise to become the world’s first smoke-free nation. Buddhist Bhutan, where smoking is considered…
Category: Non-U.S.
NL: Speeding car information to be stored in new data bank
Dutch News reports: The number plates of cars captured on film by automatic speed controls will remain on file for four weeks, if draft legislation from justice minister Ivo Opstelten makes the statute books. The draft bill is due to be published today, according to the Telegraaf. It says the minister believes keeping a description…
UK Home Office concealed ID Card scheme report
Andrea Petrou reports: The Home Office hid the terrible state of affairs regarding the ID card scheme by holding back a report for a year. The findings have been described by rights groups as “disgraceful.” The final report by the Independent Scheme Advisory Panel (ISAP) was quietly released on the 4 January, more than a…
Canadian Privacy in the Courts: Linking Damage Awards to Values
Michael Power writes: If you’re someone caught up in a data breach or a person who can point to an actual violation of privacy, an obvious question is whether you suffered harm and should you be compensated? Three PIPEDA-related decisions from Canadian courts in 2010 offer a glimpse of different approaches to the subject of…