Richard James reports: The European court of human rights has ruled the controversial stop and search powers exercised by British police as illegal. The court ruled on Tuesday the powers introduced by the government under the Terrorism Act 2000 to stop people without grounds for suspicion violated article eight of the European convention on human…
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UK: Marco Pierre White case shows how family lawyers can get into a stew
Frances Gibb comments: All’s fair in love — and divorce. Or is it? It may surprise those unfamiliar with acrimonious divorce battles that courts condone a degree of DIY detective work. If someone suspects a spouse is lying about his or her financial affairs, courts will approve the secret rummaging through of papers to find…
Is UIDAI A Privacy Violation And E-Surveillance Instrumentality?
UIDAI is the Unique Identification ( Number ) Authority of India project. The security and privacy issues of UIDAI have been raised times and again. The real problem seems to be that neither UIDAI nor its functions are legally valid and constitutionally sound. In its present form they are violative of not only the sacrosanct…
Google too powerful, warns German minister
John Oates reports: Google is in danger of becoming a monopoly like Microsoft and governments will soon have to act as regulators, the German minister of Justice has warned. Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger believes Google is fast collecting too much information on individuals and needs to be more transparent. If this doesn’t happen, governments will have to…