Henry Chu reports: She can’t vote yet, but 17-year-old Victoria Westburg has thrown herself headlong through cyberspace into the realm of real-world politics. A teenager who spends “a lot of hours” a day on her computer, she’s ticked off by laws that allow the government to snoop into or limit what people do online, and…
Category: Non-U.S.
UK: Telecom firms criticise plan for ‘Stasi’-like checks on every phone call and email
Jonathan Petre and Tom Harper report: Telecoms firms have accused the Government of acting like the East German Stasi over plans to force them to store the details of every phone call for at least a year. Under the proposals, the details of every email sent and website visited will also be recorded to help…
Ca: Information and Privacy Cases of the Year
Dan Michaluk writes: I’ve always loved year-end lists. Here’s a Canada-centric top ten “information management and privacy cases” list for 2009. Endorsement and criticism invited! #1 Grant v. Torstar. The Supreme Court of Canada recognizes a new defamation defence – the “responsible communication on matters of public interest” defence. Truly novel and highly relevant. Is…
Ca: A decade that cost us the right to be alone
Paula Simons writes about life in Edmonton: […] Call this decade — this decade without a name — the decade of surveillance. The decade when we abandoned our long-held cultural notions of personal privacy. When we surrendered some of our most basic civil liberties, not just in the name of security, but in the name…