Jesus Diaz reports: Imagine a public eye-scanner that can identify 50 people per minute, in motion. Now imagine the government installed these scanner systems all across an entire city. Or don’t imagine it, because it’s already happening, right now. Leon, Mexico, is doing exactly that, installing real-time iris scanners from biometrics research and development firm…
Category: Non-U.S.
UK: Privacy legislation shrugged off as ‘pointless’
A standalone privacy law won’t make “the blindest bit of difference”, according to one of the country’s top media lawyers. The statement follows remarks by Liberal Democrat peer and justice minister Lord McNally that there was “general consensus” that a new piece of legislation should be brought in to “clarify some of the more dangerous…
Ca: Information commissioner warns concept of privacy in danger
Vito Pilieci reports: The world has less than a decade to make the protection of personal information and online privacy a priority before the two concepts are lost forever, according to Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner. Speaking at a conference held at the University of Ottawa, Ann Cavoukian said Tuesday that information is already flowing…
UK: Privacy law to stop rise in gagging orders by judges
Christopher Hope reports: Britain could get its first ever privacy law to stop judges creating one by stealth through the courts, a justice minister said. In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Lord McNally suggested that the right to privacy could be enshrined in law after a number of celebrities were awarded so-called “super-injunctions” to…