The appeals court trial of the four men behind the file sharing website The Pirate Bay opens on Tuesday, without Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, who had not shown up at the opening of proceedings. The four men – Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundström – were all convicted in April 2009 on…
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UK: Council chiefs and YOTs warned on personal data
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…
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…