David Nankervis reports: Banking giant ANZ has admitted a branch manager breached privacy regulations to access a customer’s personal information. But the woman whose private details were “inappropriately” viewed by the manager – who is also her next door neighbour – is demanding the man be sacked according to the bank’s own code of conduct…
Canada: New decision on warrantless access to ISP customer data
David Fraser writes: A friend just provided me with a copy of a recent decision of the Ontario Court of Justice considering the admissibility of information obtained without a warrant from the suspect’s internet service provider, Bell. R. v. Cuttell is not on CanLii yet, but I’ve put a copy here. The Court concluded there…
Suit alleging wiretaps, surveillance heard–again
Mike Scarcella reports: A Latham & Watkins associate this week was back in court fighting to salvage a suit alleging the government unlawfully wiretapped and watched a man after he made a passing remark about airline security on the telephone. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit earlier this year had ruled in…
Round-Up of Reactions to PATRIOT Vote
Kevin Bankston of EFF provides a round-up of reactions to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s vote on a bill reauthorizing portions of the PATRIOT Act that were set to expire this year: Yesterday, as the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to recommend and send to the Senate floor a USA PATRIOT Act renewal bill lacking critical civil…