From the press release from the Privacy Commissioner of New Zealand: Next week, the Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff will be hosting privacy leaders from around the Asia-Pacific region to discuss the latest international data protection issues. For the first time the US and Mexico will be attending the Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities Forum (APPA) as…
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Tel-Aviv District Court Finds No “Right to Forget”
Boris Segalis writes: As reported by Dan Or-Hof, Manager of the Information Technology, Internet and Copyright group at the Israeli law firm of Pearl Cohen Zedek & Latzer, in a first of its kind decision, the Tel-Aviv district court ruled on November 30, 2010 that a subscriber of cellular services does not have a general…
Boss orders female staff to wear red bracelets when they are on their periods
I had to check the site twice to make sure this wasn’t a satire site as this is just so outrageous. Ian Sparks reports: A boss in Norway has ordered all female staff to wear red bracelets during their periods – to explain why they are using the toilet more often. The astonishing demand was…
Data Watchdog Hits out at EU Data Retention Directive
Jennifer Baker reports: The European Union’s data protection watchdog has called the Data Retention Directive the most privacy invasive instrument ever adopted by the E.U. On Friday the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Peter Hustinx demanded that the European Commission demonstrate the necessity and justification for the directive with concrete facts and figures. “Without such…