Caroline Spelman, the Shadow Communities and Local Government Secretary, has called for a ban on state snoopers and clipboard inspectors from entering homes. The Conservatives will significantly rein back the powers of Whitehall bureaucrats, quango officials and town hall snoopers to enter people’s homes. “Gordon Brown’s pledge to scale back powers of entry was a…
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UK: Kent Police faces legal threat over ANPR cameras
Kent Police could face a flood of High Court cases after being accused of breaking privacy laws by storing photographs of innocent motorists. Campaigners from the civil rights group Liberty have vowed to support anyone who wants to take legal action against the force after a report by the National Policing Improvement Agency revealed that…
Case against four AMU officials for breach of privacy
A court here Friday ordered a case to be registered under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) against four Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) officials and two journalists for breaching the privacy of a gay varsity teacher S.R. Siras, officials said. Siras, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances Wednesday, had moved the chief…
UK: High Court ruling serves as a warning against any moderation of user comments
A blog owner can avoid liability for user-generated content that appears on his site without being checked or moderated, the High Court has ruled. But fixing the spelling or grammar in users’ posts could lose him that protection, it said. The Court ruled that the operator of blogging site Labourhome.org could not have a libel…