Kevin J. O’Brien reports on the European reaction to Google’s disclosure that it had inadvertently collected personal data while collecting WiFi data as part of its Street View data collection. Germany had already been introducing legislation to curb Google, and this latest disclosure has seemingly just fanned the flames: … But in Germany, Google’s collection…
Category: Non-U.S.
Ca: Case Report – Privacy breach as a basis for enjoining customer solicitation?
Dan Michaluk writes On May 3rd, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice dismissed a motion for an injunction to restrain a departing investment advisor from soliciting his former clients. It is notable because plaintiff counsel claimed it would suffer irreparable harm to its reputation because the defendant’s use of its customer list would place it…
UK: Will the civil service scupper civil liberties reform?
Paul Marks reports: Google, Facebook and the pressure group Privacy International this week welcomed the raft of civil liberties measures announced by the UK’s incoming Conservative-Liberal coalition government. But some of the plans could founder on the rocks of what Privacy International calls the “real opposition”: not the Labour party, but an intransigent, security-obsessed civil…
Ie: Leaked EU report reveals big surge in call data requests
Karlin Lillington reports: The Garda made more requests for phone-call traffic data in 2008 than police in Germany, which has 20 times the population of the Republic. According to a leaked draft of a European Commission report, gardaí made more than 14,000 access requests for call data in 2008, a rate about 40 per cent…