Steve Lillebuen reports: Secret police files gathered on AFL players, coaches, board members and even staff have been made available to the league. Victoria Police struck a deal with the league to share any records it has gathered on AFL identities, including handing over photos and videos. An AFL club president, civil liberties advocates and…
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JP: Privacy issues inhibit checks on elderly
Jun Hongo reports: The government may look into revising the Personal Information Protection Law if some of its provisions are stopping municipalities from ascertaining the status of “missing” centenarians and other pension recipients, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku hinted Thursday. “If (the law) is impeding the investigations by local governments, we need to consider our…
UK: Choosing data protection over child protection
Matilda Battersby writes: ContactPoint, a £224 million government database containing records of all UK children, will be switched off at noon today. One of the boldest moves made so far by the new Coalition Government in its first 100 days of power, the decision to scrap Labour’s ambitious child protection initiative is being greeted with…
HK: Octopus chief resigns over data sales scandal, revenue donated to charity
Amy Wong reports: The chief executive of Hong Kong Octopus Holdings Ltd. has resigned over its scandal of selling almost two million customer’s private data to third party, and the firm will donate HK$44 million ($5.7 million) in revenue to charity. […] The Octopus scandal has escalated with Chan on July 26 admitting that the…