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…
Category: Non-U.S.
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…
NZ: Police Ordered To Pay Half of Legal Costs For Breach Of Privacy
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…