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…
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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…
Tasmanian electoral law threatens privacy
Stuart Corner reports: A law requiring all electoral matter posted on the Internet to be accompanied by the poster’s name and address conflicts with the need for users of social networking sites to maintain their privacy. Consumer Group Digital Tasmania – supported by Electronic Frontiers Australia, Civil Liberties Australia and the Australian Privacy Foundation –…
Facebook comes under German law
DDP reports: The internet social network Facebook can now face prosecution in Germany in the case of privacy violations, Germany’s data protection commissioner Peter Schaar confirmed Saturday. Since Facebook had opened an office in Hamburg on February 11, Schaar said that the company was now subject to Germany’s data protection laws. The federal data protection…