Renai LeMay reports: Federal Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim wouldn’t disclose the details of any discussions his office had had with the Attorney-General’s Department over its controversial data retention proposal, under questioning on the matter in a Senate enquiry into online privacy today. The Senate’s Environment and Communications References Committee is holding an enquiry into online…
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AU: Google quizzed over privacy laws
A Labor senator has likened Google’s approach to privacy laws as similar to the exploitation of sweatshop workers across Asia. Google representatives today fronted the Senate Communications References Committee, which is examining whether Australians are given adequate protections when they go online. Spokesman Iarla Flynn was explaining to senators that the internet giant abides by…
Data Protection: Commission to refer Austria to Court for lack of independence of data protection authority
The European Commission has today decided to refer Austria to the Court of Justice regarding the lack of an independent data protection authority. The Commission considers that provisions setting up the Austrian data protection authority do not conform to EU rules, which require Member States to establish a completely independent supervisory body to monitor the…
Barrichello wins lawsuit against Google
The Associated Press reports: A judge has ordered Google Brasil to pay $118,000 to Formula One’s Rubens Barrichello for failing to remove from the social-networking site fake profiles that mocked the Brazilian driver. The judge says Google took too long to remove the profiles after being notified by Barrichello. The decision by a tribunal court…