Roman Gazdik reports: Czech data protection authorities have stopped Google Inc collecting new images to update Street View, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday, in the latest setback to the search group’s mapping service. Google has sent a fleet of Street View cars around the globe to capture images used with maps to give a panoramic…
Category: Non-U.S.
Borderline Privacy
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…
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…