Clare Mellor reports on what may indicate a trend in North America: posting suspected shoplifters’ pictures in stores and banning them — despite the fact that they have never been charged criminally. I posted a story like this from New York last month and now there’s one out of Nova Scotia: A couple of Dartmouth…
Category: Non-U.S.
No Minister: 90% of web snoop document censored to stop ‘premature unnecessary debate’
Ben Grubb reports from Australia: The federal government has censored approximately 90 per cent of a secret document outlining its controversial plans to snoop on Australians’ web surfing, obtained under freedom of information (FoI) laws, out of fear the document could cause “premature unnecessary debate”. The government has been consulting with the internet industry over…
Ie: Abuse victims take privacy action against media
Two young victims of sexual abuse have claimed before the High Court that details contained in media reports of their attacker’s conviction for abusing them resulted in their loss of their anonymity and breached their constitutional right to privacy. The two who were abused by a male, who more than two years ago admitted to…
Swedish Pirate Party launches new, anonymous Internet service
Cyrus Farivar reports: Internet users across Sweden may soon have a little more anonymity online as this week, members of Sweden’s controversial Pirate Party launched the Pirate ISP, or internet service provider. The company would be just like any other internet service provider, except that its leaders say that their service would offer more anonymity…