Ryan Prado reports: 2 journalists have been arrested in the Indian city of Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh for breach of privacy after they filmed gay Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) teacher S.R. Siras having consensual sex with a rickshaw puller in his campus home. Sira was found dead last month under mysterious circumstances. Adil and Siraj, journalists…
Category: Non-U.S.
Gun registry privacy not violated, says watch dog
Janice Tibbetts reports: The RCMP did not violate the privacy rights of gun owners by giving their names, phones numbers and firearms information to a private pollster to conduct a survey about feelings on the controversial gun registry, says the federal privacy commissioner. Jennifer Stoddart dismissed a complaint from former public safety minister Peter Van…
Korean Curfew Imposed on Juvenile Gamers Uses National ID Number
Justin Kwong writes: The government of Korea announced last week that it would seek to cut off or dramatically slow young gamers’ Internet access between Midnight and 8:00 AM in an effort to cut down on incidents of addiction and other harms associated with extended MMO sessions. This news quickly made headlines around the world…
Irish court says Eircom disconnections do not breach privacy laws
Eircom, which is the privately-owned former state telecoms monopoly, came to a settlement with the four major record labels EMI, Sony BMG, Warner and Universal when the companies sued it over its customers’ file-sharing activities. In the settlement Eircom agreed to operate the ‘three strikes’ disconnection policy advocated internationally by music labels and film studios….