Tony Adibe reports: Director General, National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) Mr. Chirs Onyemenam, has said at least 40 million national identity cards would be issued to Nigerians next year in the first phase of the exercise. Addressing a stakeholders forum yesterday in Enugu, Onyemenam said not less than 13 million enrolments are currently being expected…
Cheng v. Romo and Applying Unauthorized Access Statutes to Use of Shared Passwords
Orin Kerr writes: The federal computer crime statutes punish unauthorized access to a computer. As regular readers know, courts are hopelessly divided on what this language means, and in particular what makes an access to a computer authorized versus unauthorized. In Cheng v. Romo, 2012 WL 6021369 (D. Mass. Nov. 28 2012), Judge Casper authored an…
Facebook sued over App Center data sharing in Germany
Loek Essers reports: German consumer organisations are suing Facebook because the social network keeps sharing personal data with third-party app makers without getting explicit consent from users. Third party apps often want access to a users’ chat as well as information about friends, personal contact information and the ability to post on a user’s Facebook…
The other side of the balance: employer interests, work systems and R v Cole
Dan Michaluk reports: On October 19th the Supreme Court of Canada issued a much-awaited decision for employers across Canada. In R v Cole, it affirmed a Court of Appeal for Ontario finding that a school teacher had a reasonable expectation of privacy in a work-issued laptop. The Canadian Association of Counsel to Employers intervened in Cole at the…