Mark Sweney reports: Jude Law has settled a breach of privacy action with Hello! magazine, with the magazine agreeing to pay £9,500 in damages and undertaking not to publish any pictures of the Alfie star with his children until they are 18. Law launched a legal action against the celebrity weekly for breach of privacy…
Category: Non-U.S.
European Body Moves on Privacy Front
James Kanter reports: The European Commission is seeking the right for its citizens to sue in American courts if they believe that airline passenger data transmitted to the United States has been misused — part of a new bid to make protecting privacy compatible with fighting terror. At a meeting Thursday and Friday in Madrid,…
New Report Offers Insight on How the British Public Views Personal Data Use
Demos, an independent UK-based think tank, has published a report describing the views of a cross-section of British people on how their personal data are used by the public and private sectors. Private Lives: A People’s Inquiry Into Personal Information (the “Report”) was researched in the context of the UK Information Commissioner’s Office’s consultation on…
State Farm Challenges Constitutionality of Canadian Privacy Law
Michael Geist writes: Later this month, the Federal Court of Canada will hear a case in Halifax that threatens Canada’s privacy law framework. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. is contesting the constitutional validity of Canada’s private sector privacy legislation (PIPEDA), arguing it oversteps the federal government’s jurisdictional power. My weekly technology law column (Toronto…