The Privacy and Information Security Law Blog reports that earlier this month, the state DPA in North Rhine-Westphalia fined a subsidiary of the discount supermarket chain Lidl € 36,000 (approximately $51,000) for illegally keeping records of employee health data. To compound the employee privacy breach with a security breach, it seems that the case was…
Category: Non-U.S.
Gmail may hand over IP addresses of journalists
Julian Assange of WikiLeaks writes that: A California court has issued a subpoena demanding Google reveal the IP addresses of journalists writing for a corruption busting journal from the Caribbean. The August 28 subpoena [pdf], issued by the Superior Court, County of Santa Clara, as part of a “libel tourism” action taken by non-US property…
German Court: Google must change its terms
Patrick McGroarty of the Associated Press reports that a German court has ruled that Google must eliminate 10 clauses from its terms of service. The Federation of German Consumer Organizations had argued that the clauses could be interpreted to compromise users’ rights to their own data Google said in a statement that it removed the…
Another blogger about to be outed?
Mia Rabson reports that: A petty online insult turned the spotlight on anonymous bloggers in the United States. Now, a Winnipeg lawyer is leading the fight in a similar case in Canada. But while the U.S. case involved a model versus a wannabe fashion socialite, the Canadian case connects two Ottawa politicians including the city’s…