Ian Kerr, the man behind the Consulting Association, which held and maintained a blacklist of builders, has been fined £5,000 by Knutsford Crown Court. The company was raided by the Information Commissioner’s Office in March when the watchdog made its first ever use of an Enforcement Notice to shut it down. Read more in The…
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EU ‘Big Brother’
The European Union’s wide-ranging Stockholm Programme risks further damaging citizens’ hard earned privacy rights, argues Pirate Party member and long-time libertarian blogger Henrik Alexandersson. EU ministers are gathering in Stockholm this week to advance their work on the Stockholm Programme, a five-year plan they claim is designed to make it easier to catch criminals and…
Facebook still violates Canada’s privacy laws?
The popular social networking website Facebook hasn’t always properly guarded the privacy rights of its users and could still be in violation of some provisions of Canadian law, the country’s privacy commissioner is expected to announce Thursday after a 13-month investigation. Jennifer Stoddart launched the probe last year after the Canadian Internet Policy and Public…
India to issue biometric ID cards to 1.2 billion
The Indian government has announced that it is to issue all of its 1.2 billion citizens with biometric identity cards. The operation will be run by the Unique Identification Authority, a new government department created specifically for the task of assigning every living Indian an exclusive number and gathering and electronically storing their personal details….