Richard Mooney reports the latest on a student privacy case in the U.K.: A UK Government watchdog this week began an investigation into an alleged breach of the Data Protection Act by North Lanarkshire headteachers who disclosed pupils’ personal details to Shotts MSP Karen Whitefield. The UK Information Commissioner – the body that deals with…
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Home Office: enhanced security defines new UK passport design
The new design for the UK passport features iconic landscapes as well as enhanced security features. Brian Sims reports. The new ten-year passport will be issued from October, its pages containing well-known UK scenes (including the White Cliffs of Dover, the Gower Peninsula, Ben Nevis and the Giant’s Causeway). Importantly, its enhanced enhanced security features…
Ca: Privacy czar continues her scrutiny of Facebook
Sarah Schmidt reports: The clock has run out on Facebook to revamp its privacy rules to avoid a public showdown with Canada’s privacy czar over how it protects the personal information of its 500 million users worldwide. After announcing in July 2009 that the social media giant was operating outside of Canada’s private-sector privacy law,…
UK: Mentally ill offenders get GPS ankle tag
Mark Gould reports: Violent mentally ill patients, including murderers, rapists and paedophiles, are being fitted with satellite tracking devices to stop them escaping and re-offending. More than 60 medium and high-risk patients detained at the Bethlem Royal Hospital have been fitted with a locked ankle bracelet containing a global positioning system as a condition of…