Jack Julian reports: The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner has ruled Nova Scotia Health violated the privacy of participants in the province’s Driving While Impaired program. A privacy expert in Halifax says it’s an interesting illustration of the complexity of privacy rules when more than one law can come into play. Read more…
Category: Non-U.S.
EPIC Joins Call for Privacy Reform from Indian Government
From the good folks at EPIC.org: EPIC has joined with several international privacy and human rights advocacy groups in a statement calling for privacy reform in the wake of allegations that the Indian government used Pegasus to surveil activists, journalists, and opponents. The statement highlights the fundamental right to privacy established under both the Indian Constitution and…
A Chinese university seems to be making a list of LGBT+ students. No one knows what it will do with the information.
Jiayun Feng reports: A leaked document that has been doing the rounds on the Chinese internet reveals that Shanghai University (SHU), one of the key institutions of higher learning in Shanghai, is ordering its schools and colleges to report students who identify as LGBT+ or sexual minorities. The school is targeting anyone who is “non-heterosexual”…
Are proposed data protection changes a threat to UK citizens’ privacy?
Alex Scroxton reports: Government proposals to liberalise the UK’s data protection regime in support of increased innovation, research and economic growth, alongside an expansion of the remit held by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to support these goals, have prompted discussion among data privacy and infosec experts, with some concerned that Boris Johnson’s government means to gut…