The New Zealand Press Association reports: The Human Rights Review Tribunal has ordered police to pay $3000 towards the legal costs of a man who pursued them for breach of privacy. In July the tribunal told the police to pay the 47 year-old man $6000 compensation for handing over a list of offences he had…
Category: Non-U.S.
Anti-piracy law test case sent to EU Court
The first case tried since the passage of Sweden’s anti-file sharing law (Ipred) in April 2009 is heading for the EU Court of Justice after a ruling by the Supreme Court. This issue concerns a case between five audiobook publishers and the Swedish ISP ePhone which appealed a lower court ruling ordering the firm to hand…
Privacy: a number’s game?
Peter Fleischer muses about why Europeans seem so focused on length of data retention rather than on what he sees as more important measures of privacy protection: ….. Curiously, the time dimension of data retention is almost entirely a Continental European privacy concern. It rarely registers as a meaningful vector in other countries, even in…
Implementing the revised EU electronic communications framework
The Department for Business Innovation & Skills published a consultation on Sept. 13: The Department for Business Innovation and Skills has launched its proposals for implementing the revised EU Electronic Communications Framework. This document sets out our preferred approach to implementation and asks questions on a limited number of specific issues. Stakeholders will have 12…