A package of amendments to the Personal Data Protection Act were passed into law Tuesday after concerns over its potential restrictions on press freedom were smoothed out. Before the amendments cleared the legislative floor, ruling and opposition lawmakers reached a consensus on exempting mass media from the legislation’s requirement that the consent of an individual…
Category: Non-U.S.
Sweden’s centre-right pushes for web sex pic clampdown
Sweden’s governing centre-right coalition is pledging to expand legislation on sexual harassment to encompass cases where sex pictures and videos are posted to the internet without the consent of those caught on camera. […] Should they win the September general election, the four governing parties of the centre-right are promising to draft a legislative proposal…
Your Privacy Ends at the Border
Michael Geist writes: Last week the talk of the privacy world was news that ten privacy and data protection commissioners — led by Canadian Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart — had released a public letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, expressing concern that the Internet giant was forgetting its privacy responsibilities. […] As experts debated the…
UK: ‘Enders broke privacy rules
Leigh Holmwood reports that the BBC got its wrist-slapped over a somewhat inexplicable mistake in which a real person’s mobile telephone number was displayed during a soap opera, leading to the real person getting thousands of unwanted text messages and calls: Character Ricky Butcher was seen receiving texts from wayward missus Sam Mitchell as he…