The Federal Court of Canada has ruled the search of a suspected terrorist’s home violated his constitutional rights and ordered the Canada Border Services Agency to return everything it seized. In a 24-page decision released Tuesday, Justice Simon Noel says the May 12 raid violated the Charter rights of Mohamed Harkat. He also ordered the…
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Fight over German filtering law sends MP into Pirate Party
After seeing Swedish voters send the Pirate Party to the European Parliament, the German branch of the group has now gotten a seat in the lower house of that nation’s parliament, the Bundestag. But the seat didn’t come about through an electoral triumph; instead a member of the Social Democrats, Jörg Trauss, changed allegiances, claiming…
Kr: Customer Database to Get Better Protection
Korea is increasing the number of businesses and entities required to provide better data protection. Despite a strengthening of privacy protection, skeptics say that the root cause is the current practice in which businesses and organizations require people to submit their resident registration codes and other verifiable data for accessing even the simplest Web applications….
Social networks subject to EU laws
Social networking sites are legally responsible for their users’ privacy, Europe’s privacy watchdogs have confirmed. A committee of data protection regulators has said that the sites are ‘data controllers’, with all the legal obligations that brings. Users of the sites are also data controllers with legal obligations when they are posting on behalf of a…