Google’s problems over Street View collecting personal data from unsecured wi-fi connections are apparently not over. John Ribeiro reports: South Korea has concluded that Google illegally collected personal data while collecting information for its Street View map service, an official at the country’s National Police Agency (NPA) said Thursday. The official, who declined to be…
Category: Non-U.S.
UK: Ex-KGB agent sues MI5 over ‘privacy breach’
Robert Verkaik reports: A former senior KGB agent is suing MI5 over invasion of his privacy, alleging his family members were victims of a campaign of harassment and unlawful surveillance. Judges are now investigating claims made by Boris Karpichkov that his east London home was broken into and his telephone calls and post unlawfully intercepted….
Ca: Privacy year in review (2010): Caselaw
Pointer: David Fraser provides a round-up of significant Canadian privacy cases in 2010 on his blog.
UK: Scandal of computer snooping by public servants
Jack Blanchard has more details on the results of a freedom of information request on police in Yorkshire, UK, mentioned in a previous post on this blog. Revelations concerning medical data are posted to phiprivacy.net, but here are some of the non-medical disclosures for the regions four police forces: Humberside Police said 31 members of…