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…
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Queensland appoints first privacy commissioner
Queensland’s first Privacy Commissioner has been appointed and will take up the post next month. Linda Matthews has been the Equal Opportunity Commissioner in South Australia for 14 years. Her new job is to support the protection of private information held by government agencies. Source: au.news.yahoo.com Thanks to the reader who sent in this link.
UK: ID cards, National Identity Register scrapped
David Meyer reports: The Conservative-Liberal Democrat government has confirmed that it will scrap the ID cards scheme and the National Identity Register. “Applications can continue to be made for ID cards, but we would advise anyone thinking of applying to wait for further announcements,” the Home Office said in a note on its website on Wednesday….
Woman loses privacy case over Bebo pictures published in magazine
A magazine did not intrude into a young woman’s privacy when it published photos that she had uploaded to social networking site Bebo when she was 15 because the images had already been widely circulated online. The woman complained to press self-regulatory body the Press Complaints Commission (PCC). She said that an article and photographs…