Reuters reports: Britain’s Prince Harry made a surprise appearance at London’s High Court on Monday as he and six other high profile figures began their lawsuit against the publisher of the Daily Mail paper over years of alleged phone-tapping and privacy breaches. Harry, the younger son of King Charles, has brought a lawsuit against Associated…
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Private records of some Canberra Health Services patients ‘deliberately’ sent to industrial partner
Niki Burnside reports: Some Canberra Health Services (CHS) patients’ records have been emailed to people outside of the organisation, in what has been described as a “serious breach of privacy”. In an all-staff email, CHS chief executive Dave Peffer said the records had been sent by a small number of staff to multiple people within…
Ireland’s Supreme Court rules seizure of computer from Quirke’s home unlawful
Vivienne Traynor reports: The Supreme Court has ruled that a seizure of a computer from convicted murderer Patrick Quirke’s home was unlawful. However, the court is to hear further arguments on the consequences of its decision and whether or not Quirke’s conviction will stand. The court was giving judgment on an appeal by Quirke against…
EU’s RTBF Continues to Produce Undesirable Results
Eric Goldman writes: This is not the first time my blog has been subject to right-to-be-forgotten (RTBF) takedowns. See, e.g., this post (scroll down for the updates). But every time the RTBF is applied to my blog, it’s probably a wrongful application of a misguided policy and worth relaying here. Here is the notice I recently received:…