Saskatchewan’s privacy commissioner is speaking out over the government’s refusal to hire an extra investigator for his office for the third year in a row. Gary Dickson, head of the Office of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner said on Monday that despite a rise in demand from the public for the office’s services —…
Category: Non-U.S.
National Bullying Helpline condemned for breach of confidentiality over No 10 complaints
Stephen Cook reports: The claim by the National Bullying Helpline that members of staff at No 10 Downing Street had called it to complain about bullying has been condemned as a breach of confidentiality by The Helplines Association and another anti-bullying charity. The Charity Commission has confirmed it will be speaking to the NBH after…
ContactPoint: £224m national children’s database ‘is not stable’, officials admit
Andrew Hough and Martin Beckford report: Contactpoint, the £224 million computer system designed to protect young people, is a “frustrating” database and not “user friendly” for local authorities, internal documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show. Officials at one council involved in the system’s development expressed concerns about its operations and accuracy in…
Impact of French employee e-mail ruling on U.S. e-discovery
Trevor Jefferies and Alvin F. Lindsay comment: A new decision released on 8 January 2010 from the French high labor court (the Cour de Cassation Chambre Sociale) may provide some grounds for arguing that a party in France can review a French employee’s e-mails and electronically stored information to determine whether the data is relevant…