From the Irish Examiner: A Kildare school is at the centre of a dispute over CCTV cameras in the bathrooms. It follows a walk out by students at Scoile Mhurie in Clane in protest over the installation fo (sic) the cameras in the school toilets. The board of managment (sic) at the school is insisting…
Category: Surveillance
Rhode Island Governor Vetoes Restrictions on RFID
Claire Swedberg reports: Rhode Island’s governor, Donald Carcieri (R), has vetoed the latest effort by the state’s legislature to pass a bill limiting how RFID technology would be employed to track students at schools and school functions, as well as vehicles as they are tracked by E-ZPass or other toll-collection systems. With his veto of…
Berlin tries to torpedo EU deal with US for bank data exchange
German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger said on Friday Berlin would try to stop an EU agreement to transfer bank information to the United States. “The federal government has distanced itself from the SWIFT agreement,” she told the Berliner Zeitung daily. “I consider it unfortunate that the EU is trying to push through this agreement according…
Swiss privacy watchdog to sue Google Street View
Back in August, when Hanspeter Thür, Switzerland’s Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner, demanded that Google withdraw Street View from Switzerland, Google responded by pledging to blur more and do more to protect personal privacy. Whatever steps Google took were apparently not sufficient, as Frank Jordans of the Associated Press now reports that Thür has…