Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev has signed a controversial law on privacy protection, RFE/RL’s Kazakh Service reports. The law, which Nazarbaev signed on December 8, prohibits any “unsanctioned interference into an individual’s private life,” including the use or acquisition of any written, audio, or video material related to a person’s private life. The legislation has led…
Israel tests biometric database
John Oates had this news report in the The Register earlier this week: The Israeli Knesset has voted in favour of a bill for a compulsory biometric database of all citizens. The Biometrics Database Law passed the Knesset 40 votes in favour to 11 against. A big row over privacy forced the bill back to…
In France, your employer can read files on your computer if you don’t tag them as personal
Cecile Martin writes: By a decision of October 21, 2009 (n°07-43877), the French Supreme Court ruled that files created by an employee on a computer issued by his employer for work purposes were presumed professional unless the employee identified them clearly as personal. This being said, the Court concluded that the employer was entitled to…
How Easy Is It For The Police To Get GPS Data From Your Phone?
Justin Elliot has more on the issue of how easy it is — or isn’t — for law enforcement to obtain your GPS data. The issue grabbed a lot of attention last week after graduate student Chris Soghoian published some information suggesting that Sprint had gotten 8 million requests last year for customer data. Sprint…