PogoWasRight.org recently linked to an opinion piece by a student in Singapore who felt the press had not respected his privacy when they covered an incident at his school. His description raised questions for me: The student who wrote this commentary in The Independent was obviously distraught by the incident and then further distraught by…
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Waikato DHB wins injunction to stop Radio NZ using hacked data
Stuff reports: Waikato District Health Board has succeeded in court action to stop Radio New Zealand using data taken in a cyber-attack. In a decision released on Wednesday, the health board has won an interim injunction through the High Court restraining Radio NZ from accessing stolen data without consent and to permanently delete that data…
NZ: Awarding damages for emotional harm
Sarah Warburton of the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner’s Office has an explainer on how damanges for emotional harm are determined under New Zealand law. Her article begins: Under the Privacy Act, the Human Rights Review Tribunal (“the Tribunal”) can award damages for emotional harm caused by a privacy breach. Damages are compensatory rather than punitive;…
Data leak raises new questions over capture of Princess Latifa
Dan Sabbagh reports: For a few days Princess Latifa had dared to think she could relax. An extraordinary plan to escape from a father she said had once ordered her “constant torture” was looking as if it might work, as she sat on a 30-metre yacht on the Indian Ocean, her home city of Dubai further and…