From the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada: The Privacy Act came into effect On July 1, 1983. This Act imposes obligations on federal government departments and agencies to respect the privacy rights of individuals by limiting the collection, use and disclosure of personal information. The Act also gives individuals the right of access…
Mass. court on GPS surveillance in criminal cases
Stephanie Vosk reports: Police are allowed to secretly place Global Positioning System devices inside the cars of suspects they want to monitor — as long as they have a warrant to do so, the state Supreme Judicial Court ruled yesterday. The decision stems from a case involving Harwich resident Everett Connolly, who was convicted of…
Media blasted for humiliating the innocent
Dario Milo and Greg Palmer are Webber Wentzel in Johannesburg. The have a commentary on the expectation of privacy and the media: Caster Semenya, the newly crowned 800m world champion, entered the international spotlight when an Australian newspaper, the Daily Telegraph, sensationally claimed that testing by sports administrators had shown she was a hermaphrodite. The…
Chief Constable sued over data stolen from a police computer
A story in today’s Belfast Telegraph reminds us that employee snooping on personal information is not always just out of curiosity or for purposes of ID theft: A victims campaigner has launched legal proceedings against the Chief Constable and two loyalist bandsmen over the gathering of information on Catholics from a police database. Lawyers for…