The appeals court ruling to confirm the convictions and custodial sentences against the backers of The Pirate Bay could lead to more file sharers being imprisoned, according to a Swedish copyright law prosecutor. The crime of file sharing is currently punished by fines or conditional sentences according to Swedish law, but the court ruling could…
Category: Non-U.S.
Ca: Supreme Court allows police access to personal consumer information
Alan Shanoff has this editorial about a recent ruling that a consumer had no reasonable expectation of privacy in his electricity consumption data: … The question for the Supreme Court of Canada was simple: Should police have obtained prior judicial authorization allowing it to obtain data on Gomboc’s energy consumption. The answer to this question turns…
In: Right to privacy and biometrics of the UID
Industrialist Ratan Tata has the capacity to challenge a breach of his privacy in the Supreme Court. But what about the nearly 60 crore Indian residents who don’t know what will become of the biometric data being collected by UIDAI? The leak of the Niira Radia tapes in India and thousands of US classified documents…
Macedonia’s surveillance society
There is no other nation on earth as closely surveilled as the British people. Indeed, such is the scale of Britain’s national obsession with CCTV that – and Big Brother Watch makes no apologies for repeatedly quoting this statistic – there is a greater number of CCTV cameras operating on the Shetland Islands than those…