A scandal in India involving Swami Nithyananda leads in to discussion of privacy law in India. From an article by Shamnad Basheer, a professor in intellectual property law at the National University of Juridical Sciences: One might argue that Indian law only recognises a right to privacy within the meaning of Article 21 of the…
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UK: MSP accused over letters to pupils
At first blush, this report from the UKPA in the Kilmarnock Standard sounded like data protection possibly run amok: A Government minister has called on Labour’s Karen Whitefield to resign from Holyrood’s Education Committee after accusing her of breaching data protection rules by writing to schoolchildren. The MSP sent letters of congratulations to primary seven…
UK: Laptop repair pervert jailed for nine months
Barry Collins reports: A laptop repair man who was caught copying private photos and bank passwords in an undercover investigation has been jailed for nine months. Grzegorz Zachodni was filmed in a undercover investigation by Sky News last year. The Sky investigators, who were acting on tip-offs from PC Pro readers, were attempting to uncover…
UK: Big Brother facial recognition cameras being rolled out in NCP car parks
British citizens are the most watched people on Earth. Each UK citizen is caught on camera an average of 3,000 times a week. And it’s about to get worse. New facial recognition cameras are now being trialled in car parks in a bid to identify potential car thieves. NCP is testing the controversial ‘Big Brother’…