Eric Chabrow reports: If Dan Chenok were a bookmaker, he’d make enactment of Privacy Act reform a long shot, at least for the foreseeable future. “The odds privacy legislation would be enacted next session are not high,” says Chenok, who backs Privacy Act reform as chairman of the government’s Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board,…
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Privacy Act Does Not Apply to White House?
From their press release: Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that the Obama administration argued in a recent court filing that the Privacy Act does not apply to the Executive Office of the President (EOP). This court filing came in a Judicial Watch lawsuit filed in 1996…
NZ: Privacy fears end ‘shame’ lists
A ban on publishing the names of all drink drivers in the Wellington region has made the crime an “anonymous offence” and could lead to an increase in drink-driving, police say. After nearly a decade of publishing a list of all excess blood-alcohol convictions, The Dominion Post no longer receives information from the police, who…
Privacy commissioner to decide whether minister breached Act
[New Zealand] Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff is going to be the next key player in the row over two beneficiaries whose welfare payment details were released by Social Development Minister Paula Bennett. Labour yesterday laid a complaint with Ms Shroff, claiming Ms Bennett breached the principles of the Privacy Act. She revealed that Natasha Fuller…