Lesley Kinny reports: Lawyers acting for former Glasgow City Council chief Steven Purcell have made a complaint to data watchdogs relating to the state of his health. The complaint relates to reports in The Scotsman newspaper, which claimed Mr Purcell’s in-house team of advisers were about to reveal the reasons behind his sudden departure as…
Category: Non-U.S.
Dutch Internet wiretaps grow exponentially
Loek Essers reports: The Dutch police and intelligence services tapped at least 3350 internet connections in 2009. An increase of 385 percent since 2006. The number of internet wiretaps by the Dutch government has exploded in recent years, reveals Dutch ict-newssite Webwereld. There is political uproar about the explosive growth of these numbers, which up…
A quarter of Germans want to be implanted with chips
Clay Dillow reports: Privacy-loving Americans have roundly rejected the idea of implanting microchips within their bodies, but one in four Germans is enthusiastic about the idea of having a chip implanted as long as there are tangible benefits involved. Those benefits don’t even have to be of the life-and-death nature; some said they would implant…
Review of the Privacy Act 1993, (NZLC 17, Wellington, 2010)
‘Review of the Privacy Act 1993’ (NZLC IP17, Wellington, 2010) is an Issues Paper for stage 4 of the Law Commission’s Review of Privacy Law. The issues paper looks at a range of issues in relation to the Privacy Act 1993, including the scope and approach of the Act; the role of the Privacy Commissioner;…