Today, the Supreme Court of Canada granted CIPPIC leave to intervene in Crookes v. Newton. The case, on appeal from the B.C. Court of Appeal, has raised the issue of whether and under what circumstances posting a hyperlink to online content that contains defamatory statements can amount to publication of that content. The plaintiff, Crookes, argues that posting…
Category: Non-U.S.
UK: Phone hacking probe cops ‘got law wrong’
The claim by London’s Metropolitan Police that the interception of messages is only illegal when the message has not been listened to, read or collected by the recipient has been challenged by a privacy law expert. The Met’s Assistant Commissioner John Yates told MPs that the police force’s legal advice was that it was not…
MfD: BIS offers “tax-free money” for encryption system
The Czech counter-intelligence service (BIS) has offered “tax-free money” to the CircleTech private firm for an encryption system, the daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) writes Monday. CircleTech co-owner Jiri Satanek succeeded in recording three meetings with BIS officers secretly, the paper adds. BIS spokesman Jan Subert told MfD that the service would investigate the case….
AU: Privacy watchdog slams complaints report
Josh Taylor reports: Assistant Privacy Commissioner Mark Hummerston has rejected the conclusions of a report into telecommunications privacy complaints handling that found the Office of the Privacy Commissioner lagged behind its counterparts in response times. The report released earlier this week by the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) found that the average time for the…