So you’ve made a sex tape and it winds up being circulated on the Internet. If you’re a celebrity, you get a lot of press. That is, unless you’re a celebrity in Indonesia where they have strict anti-pornography laws. ANI reports: Indonesian pop star Nazril Irham, better known as Ariel, has surrendered himself to police…
Category: Non-U.S.
Rogue tax workers snooped on ex-spouses, family members
Dean Beeby of the Canadian Press reports: OTTAWA—Dozens of workers at Canada’s tax agency have been caught snooping on their ex-spouses, mothers-in-law, creditors and others by reading confidential tax files. Internal reports at the Canada Revenue Agency show that rogue employees are improperly reviewing the private financial affairs of taxpayers without their knowledge. And some…
AU: Senator Wong: “Government keen to make sure data is retained”
David Ramli reports: The Minister representing the Attorney-General in the Senate, Senator Penny Wong, has claimed any data retained by the Government will not include the content of communications. The denial comes after industry criticism of the Government’s proposal to record the Web browsing details of every Internet user in Australia, in line with similar…
In: New law to protect individual privacy
Sahil Makkar and Surabhi Agarwal, with Manish Ranjan, report: Amid growing concerns over the potential misuse of personal data, the government is moving to enact India’s first law to safeguard privacy, a move aimed at least partly at deflecting worries over the immense amount of data it proposes to collect about its citizens. The United…