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…
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CIA given details of British Muslim students
Syma Mohammed and Robert Verkaik report: Personal information concerning the private lives of almost 1,000 British Muslim university students is to be shared with US intelligence agencies in the wake of the Detroit bomb scare. The disclosure has outraged Muslim groups and students who are not involved in extremism but have been targeted by police…
Police refuse to name sex offenders on the run ‘because of their RIGHT to privacy’
Here we go again. From the Daily Mail in the UK: Police are refusing to reveal the identities of sex offenders who are on the run – because it would be an invasion of their privacy. Four registered sex offenders have been on the run for as long as two years after disappearing from their…
AFM reacts to ‘breach of privacy’ complaints
Media coverage of a judgement of the European Court of Justice, that stop and search powers in the UK, claimed to be similar to the powers the police and AFM [Armed Forces of Malta] in Malta have, are illegal for being in breach of individuals’ right to privacy and are leading to complaints from drivers…