A decision has been reached in a Canadian case on outing anonymous commenters. Dan Michaluk writes: Yesterday the Divisional Court held that a motions judge erred in requiring the owner/operator of a right-wing internet message board to disclose the identities of eight John Doe defendants who had posted commentary about lawyer Richard Warman. The case…
Category: Non-U.S.
What’s going on with Dutch passports?
There have been a few stories recently mentioning concerns about Dutch passports and the database of fingerprints for passports. One story (only poorly translated by free online translators) suggests that a privacy group, Privacy First, is taking the government to court over the use of the stored fingerprints for criminal investigatory and not just passport…
In: Use of narco analysis, brain-mapping unconstitutional: Court
In a major blow to investigating agencies, the Supreme Court on Wednesday held unconstitutional and violation of the ‘right to privacy’ the use of narco analysis, brain-mapping and polygraph tests on accused, suspects and witnesses without their consent. A three-Judge Bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justices R.V. Raveendran and J.M. Panchal, in a…
Survey: Hong Kong’s elderly lack awareness of privacy protection
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data in Hong Kong entrusted the University of Hong Kong’s Sau Po Centre on Ageing to conduct a survey on privacy protection and found that the elderly in Hong Kong lack awareness of personal privacy protection. Among the respondents who had been in a situation in which…