Sam Cooper reports: Several Vancouver private schools are screening applicants to determine if their families are linked to gangs and pose a risk to students and staff. “We have recently been engaged by private schools in the Vancouver area to conduct due diligence on the families of prospective students,” Kim Marsh, managing director of private…
Category: Non-U.S.
Irish school’s fingerprint system may breach laws
Jimmy Woulfe of Irish Examiner reports that Salesian College in Pallaskenry’s system for fingerprinting students for attendance purposes may violate data protection legislation: A fingerprint from each hand is registered on two scanners when students arrive in the morning and return after lunch. The system cuts out an hour’s work every day compiling rolls. However,…
Japan’s govt., private firms to tackle cell phone music piracy
The Yomiuri Shimbun reports: The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry and the telecom and music industries plan to jointly introduce a system to prevent cell phone users from downloading illegally distributed music files to their cell phones via the Internet, it has been learned. The system, which could be operational as early as fiscal 2010,…
Church of Scientology proposes net censorship in Australia
The Church of Scientology has submitted recommendations to the Australian Human Rights Commission is response to their “Freedom of Religion and Belief in the 21st century project.” The Church states that it: supports the adoption by Federal and/or State Governments of Article 20(2) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (‘ICCPR’) which states…