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Canadian school bus driver wins privacy battle | CBC News
She had refused to let her employer do a background check on her because it was using a U.S.-based security firm.
Facebook breaches Canadian privacy law: commissioner
Facebook shares its users' personal information with developers who create games and quizzes in a way that breaches Canadian privacy law, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has found
Legal Guide | Citizen Media Law Project
The guide is intended for use by citizen media creators with or without formal legal training, as well as others with an interest in these issues. You can search by keyword, browse by state, browse by section, or simply jump right in.
Alberta passes law allowing parents to pull kids out of class
Alberta legislators passed legislation early Tuesday that will give parents the option of pulling their children out of class when lessons on sex, religion or sexual orientation are being taught.
DNA pioneer condemns plans to retain data on innocent people | guardian.co.uk
Alec Jeffreys describes government response to court ruling as 'minimal and disappointing'
Want to Help the Economy? Stop Throwing Workers Into the Maw of the Prison-Industrial Complex | Rights and Liberties | AlterNet
With the heavy millstone of a prior conviction hanging round their necks, most felons find themselves plunging back into a life of crime, and taxpayers ultimately pick up the tab for this failed policy.
Information Law and Policy Blog » Blog Archive » Week 10: Privacy, Surveillance and the Government
This article looks at the unintended consequences to a consumer’s privacy protection because of the advancement of computer technology and Internet services.
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Skype Accused of Complying with Chinese Spying Program
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“Whenever I tell a layperson, or even a laywer unfamiliar with electronic privacy laws, that the protections for e-mail vary depending upon the duration and location of its storage and whether it has been opened, and that the statutory protections afforded their remotely stored private Web diary or calendar falls short of Fourth Amendment protections, they look at me with disbelief.” (Deirdre K. Mulligan, Reasonable Expectations in Electronic Communications, p. 9
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Michael Geist - Ontario Court Orders Website To Disclose Identity of Anonymous Posters
Protection for anonymous postings is certainly not an absolute, but a high threshold that requires prima facie evidence supporting the plaintiff's claim is critical to ensuring that a proper balance is struck between the rights of a plaintiff (whether in a defamation or copyright case) and the privacy and free speech rights of the poster.
Law Commission paper on privacy | Media Law Journal
The Law Commission has released yet another paper on privacy. It seems the issues are getting bigger and harder by the year.
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It seems the issues are getting bigger and harder by the year. Methinks the Commission better hurry up and resolve these issues before they become so big and hard that they are intractable.
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- Is there a value in a tort of invasion of privacy by publicity given to private facts? If so, should it be left to the common law?
- Are any new criminal offences needed to deal with specific types of intrusion?
- Should there be a tort of intrusion into a person’s seclusion? If so, should its development be left to the common law or should it be introduced by statute?
- Should closed circuit television surveillance be regulated?
- Should there be any civil or criminal liability for certain uses of surveillance devices when they are used outside the law enforcement arena?
- Are any reforms to the law needed to deal with voyeurism not involving the use of recording devices, including reform of the “peeping and peering” offence?
- Should the media be subject to any greater or lesser legal restrictions concerning privacy intrusions than other members of the public?
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ACLU Demands Eavesdropping, Torture Memos From White House | Threat Level from Wired.com
"Releasing the memos would allow the public to better understand the legal basis for the Bush administration’s national security policies; to better understand the role that the OLC played in developing, justifying and advocating those policies; and to pa
Digital Britain: Lord Carter vows to force ISPs to crack down on web piracy | Media | guardian.co.uk
As a result, the government will launch a consultation into a legislative approach to force ISPs to notify illegal downloaders that they are breaking the law.
RAND | Occasional Papers | The Legal and Economic Implications of Electronic Discovery: Options for Future Research
As computer technologies continue to develop, concerns have arisen that, because of the sheer volume of electronically stored information, requests for electronic discovery (e-discovery) can increase litigation costs, impose new risks on lawyers and their
New Study: Tasers Much Stronger than Manufacturers Let On | PEEK | AlterNet
multiple shocks from normally working Tasers posed up to a 5 percent risk of ventricular fibrillation, the abnormal heart rhythm associated with a heart attack.
Why is a U.S. Army brigade being assigned to the "Homeland"? - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
The 1st BCT's soldiers also will learn how to use "the first ever nonlethal package that the Army has fielded," 1st BCT commander Col. Roger Cloutier said, referring to crowd and traffic control equipment and nonlethal weapons designed to subdue unruly or
Law prof warns against coming ISP privacy apocalypse
According to Ohm's new paper, ISP use of deep packet inspection gear could well lead to "the greatest reduction of user privacy in the history of the Internet, and users will suffer dire harms."
the movie | ambientTV.NET
FACELESS was produced under the rules of the 'Manifesto for CCTV Filmmakers'. The manifesto states, amongst other things, that additional cameras are not permitted at filming locations, as the omnipresent existing video surveillance (CCTV) is already in o
U.S. Senate to grill tech industry over online privacy
"This is analogous to AT&T listening to your phone calls all day in order to figure out what to sell you in the middle of dinner"
Who is selling your photos online? | Technology | guardian.co.uk
one day in mid-May Alison Clarke, another Flickr user, contacted him to let him know that his photographs were up for sale on eBay. The seller, a user located in Argentina who used the name "willy penc"
8 things you should include in your terms of service agreement | FreelanceSwitch
Your best safeguard is to make sure you and your client are on the same page before any work has even begun using a Terms of Service Agreement
Subtopia: Floating Prisons, and Other Miniature Prefabricated Islands of Carceral Territoriality
The shape of dystopia to come: Though the history of floating prisons dates back to the slave trade, floating prisons are being repurposed for governments and privatized security contractors who wish to evade human rights and other laws.
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