The U.K.’s new coalition government has issued a statement of agreement on some key issues. What is sure to warm the cockles of privacy advocates’ hearts, here’s the section on civil liberties: The parties agree to implement a full programme of measures to reverse the substantial erosion of civil liberties under the Labour Government and…
Category: Non-U.S.
European data protection group faults Facebook for privacy setting change
The Article 29 Working Party press release issued yesterday may also have something to do with Facebook’s emergency privacy meeting today: The Article 29 Working Party, the group of European data protection authorities, told Facebook in a letter today that it is unacceptable that the company fundamentally changed the default settings on its social-networking platform…
Powerless privacy watchdog ‘concerned’ about new U.S. airline security rules
Sarah Schmidt reports: Canada’s privacy watchdog has “concerns” about new American security rules that will require Canadian airlines to give personal information of passengers flying over the United States to the U.S. government, but there is nothing Ottawa can do about it, parliamentarians were told Tuesday. “There is a limit that is beyond us —…
Dear Google
Nick Allen reports: Letter to Google from Electronic Frontiers Australia and Australian Privacy Foundation asking the company to clarify its reasons for collecting personal Wi-Fi network data from Australian homes. […] 1. What type of wireless network information is Google collecting (i.e. what beyond the SSID and MAC address is being recorded)? 2. What is…