Privacy International is taking on a website that hoteliers use to “blacklist” problem guests. The site had been mentioned in previous coverage on this site a few weeks ago. Now Aaron Sharp reports: Personal data watchdog Privacy International has called for a government investigation into a Bristol based company keeping a national blacklist of…
Category: Non-U.S.
Ca: Pornography charges laid in a gang-rape of teen at B.C. rave
Charges have been laid against a 16-year-old accused of taking pictures of a gang-rape at a British Columbia rave and posting them on the Internet. The teen from Maple Ridge, B.C., has been charged with distributing and producing child pornography after photos of the assault appeared on Facebook. He is expected to appear in court…
UK case law: DFT v TFD and “super-injunctions”
On Monday 27 September 2010, Mrs Justice Sharp handed down an important judgment in a privacy case which had previously been the subject of a so-called “super injunction”. The judgment in the case of DFT v TFD ([2010] EWHC 2335 (QB)) concerned a blackmail case in which a woman was threatening to make public private and…
Sale of Personal Data for Direct Marketing — How Many Tentacles Can an Octopus Have?
Gabriela Kennedy and Heidi Gleeson write about the Octopus breach previously mentioned on this site. The recent large scale sale of personal data by Hong Kong’s Octopus Holdings Ltd. for the purposes of direct marketing is currently being investigated by the Hong Kong Privacy Commissioner and has prompted calls for reforms to the data protection…