For a moment, my heart stopped. I thought our government was making privacy concerns a priority. Then I re-read the headline and realized the story was about China and not the U.S. The Associated Press reports: Counting millions of migrant workers and citizens’ privacy concerns are among the biggest difficulties facing China as it prepares for…
Category: Non-U.S.
When in doubt, throw more cameras at it
Dean Herbert reports: A network of secret car number plate recognition cameras could be expanded across Scotland in a bid to combat terrorism, it emerged yesterday. Ministers are considering plans to hand police more surveillance equipment to counter the “emerging threat” of terrorist attacks. Plans to increase the use of Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR)…
Article: Balancing Online Privacy in India
Apar Gupta has an article in Indian Journal of Law and Technology (Vol. 6, pp. 43-64, 2010). Here’s the abstract: There have been disturbing press reports and articles on the Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008. These accounts broadly wallow about the increase in the police powers of the state. They contend that the amendment grants…
Opinion of the European Data Protection Supervisor
The Opinion of the European Data Protection Supervisor on the Communication from the Commission on the global approach to transfers of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data to third countries has been released. I look forward to reading analyses of the opinion. Here are some its statements: 17. As developed below, the EDPS considers that the bulk…