Chen Qian has a story on Shanghai Daily about the sale of personal information there that suggests a widespread problem because there doesn’t seem to be any law prohibiting the sale of information. It’s not clear from the story, however, whether the personal details include data more sensitive than name, address, landline and cell phone…
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Views sought on privacy law review
From the government of Hong Kong: The Constitutional & Mainland Affairs Bureau has launched a three-month public consultation on the review of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance to gauge views on proposals to amend the law. Secretary for Constitutional & Mainland Affairs Stephen Lam said today there is a need to examine whether the law…
Groucho Club in libel action to prevent claims in ‘exposé’
London’s famous media haunt, the Groucho Club, is proceeding with a libel action to prevent publication of allegations in a proposed ‘exposé’ of the club, Index on Censorship and Journalism.co.uk can report. Kapital Ventures and the Groucho Club London have filed a claim to restrain publication of a libel in a book on the club…
New fast-track P2P clampdown proposals announced
According to the Guardian and reports this morning, Government officials today have announced that they intend to put in place a strong clamp down on illicit file sharing to ‘support’ record and film industries they wrongly believe are threatened. This is the wrong moment to go in this direction. Online music revenues are going up,…