The Canadian Press reports: The Supreme Court of Canada will decide if a Vancouver judge was right to throw out a law which allows police to use wiretaps without a warrant in an emergency. The case involves six men convicted last April in the 2006 kidnapping and ransom of a drug trafficker and two other…
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AU: Girl at centre of St Kilda nude photos scandal to hand over photos to Federal Court
The girl at the centre of St Kilda photo scandal has agreed to hand over all the pictures she has to the court and destroy any other copies in her possession. At a Federal Court hearing this afternoon the girl was instructed to put the photos on a USB stick and hand them to the…
UK: ICO welcomes Scottish Government’s new privacy principles
A statement from the Information Commissioner’s Office: The Scottish Government has today published Identity Management and Privacy Principles for public service organisations. The new guidance is designed to help organisations achieve privacy-friendly public services, encouraging good practice and ensuring personal data is always handled with respect. They have been devised by an expert group –…
AU: Probe into net phone directory for stalkers
Asher Moses reports: A website that allows stalkers to look up the names and addresses attached to landline and mobile numbers is being investigated by the nation’s privacy and communications watchdogs. The reverse phone directory lookup service, ReverseAustralia.com, was created by an Australian systems architect living in San Francisco who would only reveal his first…