Pointer: David Fraser provides a round-up of significant Canadian privacy cases in 2010 on his blog.
Category: Non-U.S.
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…
UK: North Yorkshire Police in 39 data protection law breaches
Julie Hayes reports: North Yorkshire police officers and staff breached data protection laws 39 times in the past three years, the force has revealed. In response to a Freedom of Information request, North Yorkshire Police said the incidents included officers and staff conducting checks of private telephone numbers, obtaining personal data without consent, accessing personal…
CN: Personal details of porn website bosses revealed in report
Pang Qi reports: The personal information of 13 heads of pornographic websites has been published for the first time, in a report by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Tuesday, according to the Beijing News. The report, called “Illegal and Unhealthy Information on Mobile Internet Inspection Report (issue 3, 2010),” was compiled by the Network…