Canadian lawyer David T. Fraser has an interesting column on Slaw: I was reading an interesting article in the Lawyer’s Weekly today on the recent Supreme Court of Canada decision in R. v. Morelli, [2010] SCC 8. In his article, “Reforming Search & Seizure” (sadly, not available online), Professor Benjamin Goold makes the following comment…
Category: Non-U.S.
UK: Government vehicle surveillance database storing 250 journeys for every motorist
John Swaine reports: The average motorist has the details of 200 of their journeys stored on the Government’s controversial vehicle surveillance database, new figures have shown. The records, which include photographs of private cars, can be secretly handed by ministers to the governments of other European countries or the United States. Documents released under the…
France joins probes into Google Street View
AFP reports: France became the latest country Thursday to probe Google for gathering personal data as its Street View bikes and cars photographed cities across the world for the controversial mapping service. The French data protection agency CNIL said it was examining private data collected for Street View, including emails and possibly banking details, to…
Privacy czar raises alarm on smart meter data
John Spears reports: Picture this: You sign up for an energy conservation scheme that lets your local utility shut down your air conditioner temporarily if the power grid is overloaded. Shortly afterward, you get a marketing call from an air conditioning company. Or this: You buy an electric car that you charge up every Sunday…