Calls to better safeguard users’ privacy online and improve protection of personal data on the Internet are commonplace. The concerns about privacy issues are sometimes coupled with demanding higher legal standards of protection pertaining to access and use of personal data obtained over the Internet by third parties, may they be the government and its…
Category: Non-U.S.
Discussion underway about privacy cause of action
Richard Ackland in the Sydney Morning Herald and the editorial in The Australian today comment on the NSW Law Reform Commission recommendation for a statutory cause of action for breach of privacy. Ackland is somewhat bemused about aspects of the report, but doesn’t dismiss the recommendation and the earlier Australian Law Reform Commission proposal, suggesting…
Arrested MP DNA removed from file
The Tory MP arrested after obtaining leaked Whitehall documents has hailed a “small but significant victory for freedom” after police chiefs agreed to remove his DNA profile from a national database. Shadow immigration minister Damian Green said the Metropolitan Police had made the “right decision” to remove his DNA but called for the records of…
Terms of agreement with Swiss government regarding UBS
The Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) today announced that the agreement with the Swiss government has been finalized. As a result of the agreement, the United States will receive substantially all of the accounts of interest when it initiated the John Doe summons against UBS on June 30, 2008. Under the agreement,…