The European Parliament today voted to approve the European Commission’s Telecoms Package of reforms. Part of that package of reforms was a change to EU law on the use of cookies. […] The now-adopted text says that cookies can be stored on a user’s computer, or accessed from that computer, only if the user “has…
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Growing outrage over Dutch fingerprint database
From the Deutsche Presse-Agentur: More than 3,000 people in the Netherlands have signed a petition demanding that the government overturn a law enabling it to store the fingerprints of all Dutch citizens in a central electronic database. Since September 21, everyone applying for a Dutch passport is obligated to provide four fingerprints for storage in…
UK jails schizophrenic for refusal to decrypt files
Chris Williams reports: The first person jailed under draconian UK police powers that Ministers said were vital to battle terrorism and serious crime has been identified by The Register as a schizophrenic science hobbyist with no previous criminal record. His crime was a persistent refusal to give counter-terrorism police the keys to decrypt his computer…
U.S.-Canada to share refugees’ biometric info
Sheldon Alberts reports: Seeking to enhance its efforts to crack down on fraudulent refugee claims, the Harper government on Tuesday announced it has struck a deal to share fingerprint information on asylum seekers with the United States. Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan made the announcement following a bilateral summit here with U.S. Homeland Security…