Dalhousie University security staff say someone is secretly filming women on the Studley Campus and posting the videos to an online sharing site. In an email sent to students Monday afternoon, Mike Burns, director of security, said women were “surreptitiously captured on video.” “The videos were taken without consent of the subjects and appear to…
Category: Non-U.S.
EFF Urges EU Data Protection Authorities to Call for the Repeal of the EU Data Retention Directive
Eva Galperin comments: This week, EFF is taking part in the 32nd Annual Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, where we urged the Privacy Authorities to call for the repeal of the European Union’s 2006 Data Retention Directive, which requires Internet service providers operating in Europe to retain telecom and Internet traffic data about all of…
US ambassador questioned on EU data sharing
From BBC, this video of a 3-hour session on transatlantic data sharing:
Ca: Councillor’s Court Case for Breach of Privacy Act Starts Today
The trial starts this morning for Prince George City Councillor Brian Skakun, who is accused of breaching the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Skakun is accused of leaking a confidential report about the relationship between a former Officer in Charge of the local RCMP detachment and civilian staff members. The report ended…