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…
Fight to reform PATRIOT Act begins
Legislation was introduced in the Senate yesterday to reform the USA PATRIOT Act. Introduced by Senators Russ Feingold (D-WI), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Jon Tester (D-MT), Tom Udall (D-NM), Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Daniel Akaka (D-HI) and Ron Wyden (D-OR), The Judicious Use of Surveillance Tools In Counterterrorism Efforts (JUSTICE) Act would reform the…
Koster settles with telemarketers
Keith Loria reports: Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster reached a settlement agreement on Wednesday with a California couple who had violated the state’s No-Call List policy. Under terms of the settlement, Madhulika and Ratan Baid’s California companies, Smart Funding Corp. and Ariant Solutions, Inc., will pay $35,000 to the State for using third-party telemarketers to…