Oiwan Lam writes: Bloggers and twitterers are discussing the implementation of real name registration in Baidu’s micro blogging platform, Baidu Shuoba. Some speculated that Baidu, the largest search engine company in China, is connected to the government ID Data base, as the verification of the Baidu Shuoba requires a complete match of the identity card’s…
Category: Non-U.S.
ACT MP/ID thief David Garrett resigns from ACT — but what happens next?
A PogoWasRight.org commentary: ACT MP David Garrett resigned from ACT last night. His resignation followed revelations that he had stolen a dead baby’s identity to get a passport “as a prank” in 1984 and that he had a previously unknown arrest in 2002 in another matter that was discharged without conviction in 2005. In a…
NL: MPs angry at fingerprint database plan
MPs have reacted furiously to the rumour that the data bank to store millions of Dutch citizens’ fingerprints is to be built by a ‘commercial French company’, the Volkskrant reports on Thursday. ‘This is a question of national security and therefore national government,’ Socialist MP Ronald van Raak told the paper. Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert of the…
Facebook stalker a 12-year-old girl
Ben Grubb reports: A mother’s fear that her 12-year-old daughter was being stalked by a paedophile on Facebook sparked an in-depth, almost month-long investigation involving the Australian Federal Police. But police have been left dumbfounded by the discovery that the person who harassed and sent pornographic images to the girl via the site was another…