Ruth Lamperd reports: Telstra is under fire for a serious privacy breach after a Melbourne man’s personal contact list ended up on another man’s brand new iPhone. Nathan Fallon was given an iPhone as a gift two days before Christmas and was shocked to find it already contained 182 contact names and numbers. Staff at…
Category: Non-U.S.
UK, Germany raise concerns about airport scanners
Alan Travis reports: The rapid introduction of full body scanners at British airports threatens to breach child protection laws which ban the creation of indecent images of children, the Guardian has learned. Privacy campaigners claim the images created by the machines are so graphic they amount to “virtual strip-searching” and have called for safeguards to…
Privacy rights in a digital age
Betsy Powell reports: During a routine traffic stop, police suspected the car was stolen. That led to a search uncovering a handgun concealed in the back seat. With a suspect in custody, an officer looked through the man’s hand-held device and discovered a seemingly incriminating text message. But the officer found that, while he was…
U.S. security rules would break privacy laws, Canadian airlines contend
Jim Bronskill of the Canadian Press reports: Canada’s major airlines say they will be forced either to break privacy laws or to ignore new American air security rules unless the federal government comes up with a response to U.S. demands for passenger information. The National Airlines Council of Canada, which represents the four largest Canadian…