Tracey Tyler reports: Media law experts say a libel lawsuit filed by a leading Canadian climate scientist could have enormous implications for newspapers and other online publishers, forcing them to police the Internet for stories picked up by everyone from bloggers to Twitterers. The concerns arise out of a statement of claim filed by Andrew…
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Let’s see Canadian transparency in government demands for personal information
Canadian privacy lawyer David T. S. Fraser has this commentary on Slaw this week: Earlier this week, Michel-Adrian Sheppard blogged on Slaw about Google’s new Government Requests Tool (Google Releases Data on Government Requests for Private User Data). I blogged about it as well here. I’m all in favor of pulling this out of the…
UK: Details of voters are left in pub
Chris Havergal reports: Personal details of householders and their voting preferences were left in a pub by Liberal Democrat campaigners. Simon Webb, 24, found the dossier wedged behind a window seat in the Green Dragon in Chesterton. It contained the names and addresses of around 60 people from the electoral roll and, marked next to…
UK: Financial firms may be forced to record mobile calls
Dan Worth reports: New regulations from the Financial Services Authority (FSA) could force financial companies to record all mobile calls and store them for six months. However, experts claimed today at a roundtable debate hosted by RIM that the regulations could lead many other enterprises to record mobile calls. Advertisement Financial firms currently have to…