Thousands of people have signed a Downing Street petition calling for a posthumous government apology to World War II code breaker Alan Turing. Writer Ian McEwan has just backed the campaign, which already has the support of scientist Richard Dawkins. In 1952 Turing was prosecuted for gross indecency after admitting a sexual relationship with a…
Email Snooping Can Be Intrusion Upon Seclusion
Attorney Evan D. Brown discusses a case that sheds some light on how courts may view a privacy invasion claim of “intrusion on seclusion” when a firm’s employee email is hosted in the cloud: Local elected official Steinbach had an email account that was issued by the municipality. Third party Hostway provided the technology for…
3rd International conference on IPRs, Personal Data Protection and National Security
The 3rd International conference on IPRs, Personal Data Protection and National Security is to be held on October 20 – 22, 2009 in Beirut, Lebanon. The conference is co-organised by Lebanese Information Technology Association (LITA) and International Association of Cybercrime Prevention (AILCC) and hosted by University of Saint Joseph in Beirut. The event is held…
Lidl fined for data protection violations
The Privacy and Information Security Law Blog reports that earlier this month, the state DPA in North Rhine-Westphalia fined a subsidiary of the discount supermarket chain Lidl € 36,000 (approximately $51,000) for illegally keeping records of employee health data. To compound the employee privacy breach with a security breach, it seems that the case was…