Sandra Laville reports: Barry George, the man acquitted at a retrial of killing the BBC television presenter Jill Dando, is making an unprecedented legal challenge to stop the authorities keeping a watch on his movements. George, 48, begins a legal case in the high court against the Metropolitan police, claiming his human rights are being…
De: Köhler refuses to sign controversial internet child porn law
German President Horst Köhler has hammered another nail in the coffin of a controversial law to block child pornography on the internet by refusing to sign it, news magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday. Köhler has asked for “supplementary information,” the Spiegel report said. The law, which critics argue would block access to other, innocent sites…
Privacy Challenges and Implications of an Electric “Smart Grid” System
Zack Kaldveer, Communications Director, Consumer Federation of California and author of the blog Privacy Revolt, has a commentary on the California Progress Report that provides an overview of the smart grid system and its privacy implications that could be a good overview for those first trying to understand the issue. It begins: A critically important…
Ar: New law forces DNA tests to find ‘disappeared’ kids
Mayra Pertossi of the Associated Press reports: Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina’s Congress has authorized the forced collection of DNA from people who might have been born to political prisoners slain a quarter-century ago — even if they don’t want to know their birth parents. Rights activists hope that the new law…