It takes a lot to qualify as the “world’s worst” internet law, but Nick Farrell thinks Mexico has a serious contender” One of the dafter laws in internet history is going before the Mexican senate in a desperate bid to curb computer crime. Typically laws drafted by politicians to deal with computer crime are based on a complete…
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Theresa May forced to backtrack over plan to ‘snoop’ on internet use
Toby Helm and Jamie Doward report: Highly controversial plans to allow the police and security services full access to everyone’s internet browsing history have been abandoned by ministers in what is being presented as a dramatic climbdown over online surveillance. Amid fears in government that it would be unable to force new laws through parliament…
UK: Why F-Secure and Others Are Opposing the Snooper’s Charter
Phil Muncaster writes: It’s widely expected that next week the government will unveil details of its hugely controversial Snooper’s Charter, aka the Investigatory Powers Bill. To preempt this and in a bid to influence the debate cyber security firm F-Secure and 40 other tech signatories presented an open letter opposing the act. The bill most controversially is…
HK: Disclosing someone’s identity via hyperlinks to anonymized court judgements violates Data Protection Principle
Site A describes a court case, but the names of the plaintiff and defendant are replaced with initials to protect their privacy. But if you go to Site B and do a search for the individual’s name, the search results provide a link to the court case. Are you violating some aspect of Hong Kong’s…