India’s Unique Identification System (UID) continues to be controversial. The government, of course, insists that there are adequate privacy and security controls. PTI reports: The Unique Identification System had an inbuilt security and privacy component that ensured that the data from the data bank could not be accessed except on grounds like national security, Unique…
Category: Non-U.S.
Privacy is a right, not a privilege, but people are being watched and intimidated
Paul Syvret comments on the state of police surveillance in Australia: Never before have our everyday activities been so monitored and so subject to scrutiny. Take, just for starters, the debate swirling over the police practice of “street checks”. These are when innocent citizens are stopped and interrogated by police and their details recorded. They…
UK: Children’s rights group threatens ICO with judicial review
Jane Fae Ozimek reports: Children’s Rights Group ARCH has threatened to take the Information Commissioner to a judicial review after the data regulator declined to take enforcement action the Youth Justice Board for unlawfully collecting and distributing data. According to Terri Dowty, Director of ARCH, the Youth Justice Board (YJB) is continuing to process data…
Ca: Conviction overturned as search ruled unreasonable
Keith Fraser reports that the B.C. Court of Appeal overturned a conviction based on an unreasonable search and seizure. Reading the description, I doubt that the courts here would have ruled the search unreasonable and excluded the evidence, but see what you think. Here’s the part of Fraser’s report that summarizes the RMCP’s…