Snooping on a snoop: RCMP installed hidden cameras in Montreal detective’s HQ

RCMP investigators testified in court Thursday how they installed hidden cameras to spy on detectives suspected of snooping into confidential databases then passing that information along to criminals. Montreal police detective Mario Lambert is accused of unlawfully retrieving information about license... Read more...

Macmillan pays heavily for violation of privacy

Gowenius Toka reports: Botswana’s popular publishing company, Macmillan Botswana, avoided being arraigned before the Lobatse High Court last week by settling out of court, after publishing without consent, the photo of a certain Botsanyang Motswere in a school textbook under a chapter on HIV and... Read more...

Israel Data Access Stopped After Irish Objection

Objections levied by Irish European officials have put a stop to Israel gaining recognition for its data protection and access to sensitive information. The European Commission has announced it has halted a proposal to allow Israel access to potentially sensitive data on European Union citizens following... Read more...

Opinion: “Privacy, Parliament and the Courts” – Mark Thomson

A constant theme of the recent press discussion of “sportsman’s privacy injunctions” has been the suggestion that judges have created a privacy law by stealth and that this raises serious questions about democratic accountability.   I have already commented on some of the issues arising from... Read more...

In: Personal details sold for a song

Sameer Ranjan Bakshir reports: Personal data of people, whether address, email ID or phone number, cannot be sold. But you can still buy a ‘database’ that includes two crore email IDs and 10 lakh phone numbers of IT professionals for as low as Rs 2,500. The Reserve Bank of India and Telecom Regulatory... Read more...

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