Ayang Macdonald reports: Nigerian President Ahmed Bola Tinubu on Wednesday June 14 signed into law the country’s Data Protection Bill, weeks after it was okayed by the country’s National Assembly. The move now brings to an end lingering efforts which started in 2018 to enact the legislation in a country on the full course of…
Donated Blood or an Organ? Police Shouldn’t Have Easy Access to Your DNA
From the ACLU: In 2015, following a DUI arrest, Ian Mitcham consented to having a blood sample collected to test for blood-alcohol concentration. He was advised his sample would be destroyed after 90 days. Instead, law enforcement held onto it for three years. Then, without obtaining a warrant, a detective used this old blood sample…
DHS’s Newest Target: Atlanta “Cop City” Activists
Spencer Reynolds reports: For months, environmental and racial justice activists in Atlanta have challenged the destruction of a local forest for a police training facility. Following an extended draconian crackdown, the Atlanta Police Department on May 31 arrested three people who operated a bail fund providing legal support to demonstrators. This escalatory action directly targeted constitutional rights…
Privacy commissioner finds 2 B.C. police departments improperly accessed critic’s data
Akshay Kulkarni reports: B.C.’s Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) has found two police departments improperly accessed the personal information of a Victoria man who previously filed freedom-of-information requests with them. Blogger Stephen Harrison, who regularly files FOI requests with the Victoria and Saanich police departments on Vancouver Island, uses the data for…