Jared Yee reports: Collecting biometric information could put civil liberties and privacy at risk, despite considerable benefits, says the Irish Council for Bioethics (ICB). In its report, “Biometrics: Enhancing Security or Invading Privacy?”, the ICB explores privacy concerns stemming from the growing use of biometric technologies to counter identity theft. The technologies reviewed in the…
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Ca: WCB complaint well-founded
Joe Couture reports: Saskatchewan’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, Gary Dickson, released Monday a report on an investigation that dismissed three of four complaints against Saskatchewan Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) but found one of the complaints was well-founded. In the report, the commissioner deals with four complaints that were raised by an injured worker regarding WCB…
UK: ICO to appeal Court of Appeal’s judgement on database
Should records of minor criminal convictions from years ago remain in a database where they would be accessible to many? The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the Information Tribunal didn’t think that would be consistent with the Data Protection Act, but in October, the Court of Appeals reversed their orders to remove such records….
Ie: School in row over CCTV cameras in bathrooms
From the Irish Examiner: A Kildare school is at the centre of a dispute over CCTV cameras in the bathrooms. It follows a walk out by students at Scoile Mhurie in Clane in protest over the installation fo (sic) the cameras in the school toilets. The board of managment (sic) at the school is insisting…