Daniel Silva reports: The new ”smart meters” utilities are installing in homes around the world to reduce energy use raise fresh privacy issues because of the wealth of information about consumer habits they reveal, experts said Friday. The devices send data on household energy consumption directly to utilities on a regular basis, allowing the firms…
Category: Surveillance
UK: Only a ‘minimal’ invasion of privacy: Snooping council spied on family 21 times in 3 weeks
A council which used controversial laws to spy on a mother and her family 21 times in three weeks insisted today that its actions only ‘minimally’ invaded their privacy. Poole Borough Council had also used Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa) legislation on two other occasions to determine whether families were living in the right…
N.S. Appeal Court rules alleged drug courier’s charter rights weren’t violated
HALIFAX — A man who successfully argued his charter rights were violated when he was arrested with three kilograms of cocaine at Halifax airport four years ago has to stand trial again, Nova Scotia Appeal Court has decided. The original trial judge ruled that Mandeep Singh Chehil’s charter rights were breached on Nov. 16, 2005,…
Secret sex tapes so much more than creepy
Lawyer and victim rights advocate Wendy Murphy writes: Forty-three-year-old Deryck Reid will soon face trial on charges he secretly took pictures of an unsuspecting nude woman. Allegations include that Reid photographed one of his female roommates while she was in the shower at the apartment they shared in South Quincy, Mass. […] It may be…