If you are wondering what a story about shooting a pitbull is doing on a privacy-oriented web site, keep reading, as all will become clear (maybe). CBC News reports: A Chilliwack, B.C., family is outraged after police shot and killed their pitbull outside their home on Tuesday. The Mounties are investigating the incident but said…
Category: Non-U.S.
China adopts tort law
China’s top legislature approved the Tort Law Saturday, after four readings since 2002. The 92-provision law covers liabilities for a range of circumstances…. [and] also covers infringements of personal rights, such as name, reputation, portrait and privacy. The law, with equal importance with another civil rights law, the Property Law, was endorsed by the National…
UK: Football boss in brothel story tests privacy laws
Alexi Mostrous reports: It had all the elements of a classic tabloid sting — apart from a name. The Sun’s decision not to identify a top football manager accused of visiting a brothel marked a tipping point in British privacy law, media experts said. The newspaper ran a front-page story about the manager, who it…
Google Rests Its Defense of Executives in Italian Privacy Case
Eric Sylvers reports: Lawyers for Google rested their case in defense of four executives charged in Italy with failing to comply with privacy laws, telling a judge that the company has a mechanism in place to rapidly remove objectionable video from its site. […] Italian prosecutors had argued at a hearing last month that Google,…