Neil Puffett reports: A children’s rights campaign group has written to all youth offending teams (YOTs) in England and Wales warning them that they may be breaking the law by uploading information on young people to a computer system. The move comes after Action on Rights For Children (Arch) raised concerns with the Information Commissioner’s…
Category: Non-U.S.
Canada’s Anti-Spam Act back on the order paper
Bill C-28, called the Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act (or, more formally: An Act to promote the efficiency and adaptability of the Canadian economy by regulating certain activities that discourage reliance on electronic means of carrying out commercial activities, and to amend the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission Act, the Competition Act, the Personal…
NZ: Gaps in privacy law raise data, cloud computing issues
Stephen Bell reports: A recent amendment to privacy law — the Privacy (Cross-Border Information) Amendment Act – aims at meeting conditions set by the European Union on the privacy of personal information sent to or through New Zealand. However, the Privacy Commissioner’s office acknowledges there are still holes in the protection of personal information that…
JP: Advertising billboards use facial recognition to target shoppers
In Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi film Minority Report, an interactive ad shouts to Tom Cruise’s character “John Anderton, you could use a Guinness!” – having identified him by scanning his iris. In Japan, sci-fi prophecy is now becoming reality, with the first digital billboards tailored to passing shoppers tried out in malls. Produced by the electronics…