Warren Gwilt reports: The Department of Home Affairs is to probe whether private security companies are violating national security for profit. Security companies are demanding ID numbers and fingerprints for access to exclusive residential estates across the country. These are checked against a database of 53 million people that mimics the government’s records. […] Ideco,…
Category: Non-U.S.
Media lawyers not warm on climate scientist’s lawsuit
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…
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…