Michel-Adrien Sheppard writes: The Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs recently published its report entitled Public Protection, Privacy and the Search for Balance: A Statutory Review of the DNA Identification Act. The Act, which came into effect in 2000, created a national DNA databank containing DNA samples from individuals convicted of certain designated…
Category: Non-U.S.
N.B. newspaper ordered to name commenter
A New Brunswick judge has ordered a Moncton newspaper to reveal the identity of an anonymous commenter after the person’s online post was considered defamatory by its target. The court order is a part of a growing trend of judges siding with complainants and forcing media companies to turn over the names of people commenting…
UK: Facebook unveils child safety ‘panic button’
Daniel Emery reports: Facebook has announced it will allow a “panic button” application on its social networking site. The button, aimed at children and teenagers, will report abuse to the UK Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop) and Facebook. […] Ceop, the government law enforcement agency tasked with tracking down online sex offenders, called…
De: Minister calls for internet code of conduct
Germany’s consumer minister, who vowed to delete her Facebook account in protest at the networking site’s privacy policies, called Monday for an Internet “honour code” to protect personal data. “We need an honour code … 10 golden rules – short, sharp and clear,” Ilse Aigner told Die Welt daily in an interview. “Such rules can…