Jane Seyd reports: A West Vancouver man is suing his former lover — a North Vancouver teacher — for making a secret sex tape of them, and then showing it to her ex-husband, who then brutally beat the boyfriend in his own home. In a civil lawsuit, filed in B.C. Supreme Court Dec. 29, the…
Category: Non-U.S.
UK: Home secretary: ID register contains NI numbers
Home secretary Alan Johnson has confirmed that the National Identity Register contains National Insurance numbers and answers to ‘shared secrets’. In a revelation that is likely to intensify the arguments over the privacy implications of the database, Johnson claimed the NI numbers have been included to “aid identity verification checks for identity cards and, in…
UK: Brothel-visiting celebrity remains anonymous after Moseley (sic) precedent
The Sun newspaper has refused to name a top football manager it said it caught leaving a brothel. Privacy law experts say that the case underlines the strictness with which courts interpret the right to privacy of famous people. The Sun said that it confronted a Premier League football manager outside a Thai-style massage parlour…
Canadian Internet Registration Authority WHOIS Privacy Policy
In June 2008 the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) launched its new WHOIS Privacy Policy, which protects the privacy of individual Registrants by restricting personal information. At the time of the policy launch, CIRA committed to holding public consultations on the WHOIS disclosure policy within one year. Accordingly, these consultations have recently been concluded and…