Laure Belot reports: A French company, Lyberta, has just dropped plans to fit children in several nurseries in Paris with electronic tags, after a newspaper revealed the scheme. Trade unions, councils and civil liberties groups were indignant at the invasion of privacy. But the response to the idea in online forums was much more divided:…
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Did UK.gov break the law with its child database?
Jane Fae Ozimek reports: Did the Department of Education (DoE) – or Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), as it was then known – knowingly break the law in its establishment of the ContactPoint database? The instant answer is: we don’t know. However, a history of excuses, delay and avoidance of awkward questions is starting to…
JP: Records seized from Google on YouTube poster of collision videos
Japanese prosecutors seized on Tuesday records from the operator of the YouTube video-sharing website that may help identify who made public on the site videos of the September collisions between two Japanese patrol boats and a Chinese fishing boat in disputed waters, investigative sources said. Investigators from the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office seized the…
TNT criticised for asking people to leave personal data on doorsteps
Robert Bain reports: A division of TNT Post has been accused of putting respondents’ personal data at risk by asking them to leave a completed five-page questionnaire on their doorstep for collection. The BBC’s Watchdog programme warned that the information in the survey, distributed by Doordrop Media, could be used to help criminals burgle your…