Peter Nowak of CBC News reports: Canada’s privacy commissioner, fresh off forcing Facebook to change how it handles users’ data, is ordering Bell Canada to change how it informs internet customers of its network-management practices. In a report dated Aug. 13 and made public on Friday, assistant privacy commissioner Elizabeth Denham told the company it…
Category: Non-U.S.
Swedish police to publicly identify suspects
Police in Skåne in southern Sweden will shortly begin publishing pictures of criminal suspects on the police website, a practice that may soon be adopted all over the country. The pictures will be taken from surveillance cameras and the police hope that the general public will help investigate and identify criminals. […] Anne Ramberg, general…
Dutch royals win privacy case against AP
As reported two weeks ago, the Dutch royals sued the AP alleging invasion of privacy for taking pictures of the royals while on vacation. Now the AP reports that a court has ruled in favor of the Dutch royal family. Although the AP had argued that the pictures were taken of public figures in a…
Berlusconi sues local, foreign media for libel
Reuters reports: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is launching legal actions against media in Italy and abroad, including Britain, France and Spain, for libel in their coverage of his private life, his lawyer said on Friday. His lawyer Niccolo Ghedini told Reuters that he and his colleagues abroad had already filed lawsuits against newspapers in…