Levi Pulkkinen of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has a follow-up to an earlier news story about a nurse’s union seeking an emergency injunction to bar the release of prison nurses’ names to two inmates who had filed for the information under freedom of information law: Following a brief hearing, King County Superior Court Judge Michael Fox…
Residents personal details sold
Chen Qian has a story on Shanghai Daily about the sale of personal information there that suggests a widespread problem because there doesn’t seem to be any law prohibiting the sale of information. It’s not clear from the story, however, whether the personal details include data more sensitive than name, address, landline and cell phone…
Views sought on privacy law review
From the government of Hong Kong: The Constitutional & Mainland Affairs Bureau has launched a three-month public consultation on the review of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance to gauge views on proposals to amend the law. Secretary for Constitutional & Mainland Affairs Stephen Lam said today there is a need to examine whether the law…
Former Ohio cop, wife plead guilty to hacking
According to a report in The Chronicle-Telegram, Kurt Oehlstrom Sr., and his wife, Stephanie Oehlstrom, accepted a plea deal Thursday to misdemeanor charges for hacking into an Amherst police dispatcher’s personal e-mail account in 2006. Oehstrom was an Amherst police officer at the time. They both pleaded guilty to attempted unauthorized use of property, which…