Canadian attorney Michael Power has an interesting article about border searches involving electronic devices that compares the Canadian courts to U.S. law. He writes, in part: The United States has a formal policy on the subject of laptop border searches readily available; Canada doesn’t. We do, however, have case law. In R. v. Simmons, the Supreme Court…
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UK: ‘Press outrage over privacy law is both misconceived and misdirected’
Rachel McAthy writes: Stevie Loughrey is a solicitor at law firm Carter-Ruck, which specialises in privacy, slander and defamation, as well as other areas of media, entertainment and international law. The injunctions granted to Colin Montgomerie and three England footballers in recent weeks have been greeted with the now familiar wailing and gnashing of teeth by…
UK: Police legal advice gives spam RIPA protection
Amberhawk Training reports on how MPS views stored communications in terms of privacy protections: The voicemail hacking incident is still exercising MPs – especially the Labour ones who did little to protect individual privacy during the party’s decade in power (see last week’s blog). So when Assistant Commissioner John Yates of the Metropolitan Police Service…
UK: More people recognizing the down side of surveilling students
It is encouraging to see so many people starting to challenge the extensive use of surveillance in schools. Gavin Atchison reports: Half of York’s secondary schools have been filming pupils on CCTV without telling parents, sparking condemnation from privacy campaigners. An investigation by The Press has found that while all ten secondaries in the city…