Dong Heng reports: On Monday, China’s primary police authority, the Ministry of Public Security, made the details of its first draft law regarding the legality of video surveillance in communal spaces available for public feedback. The nation currently has no specific law to directly regulate the operation of video cameras that monitor daily activity in…
Month: November 2016
Jump Rope (Singapore) gets warning over disclosing particulars of blacklisted former employee
K.C. Vijayan reports: Jump Rope (Singapore), the non-profit group that promotes rope skipping in schools here, was issued a warning by the Personal Data Protection Commission for disclosing the identity of a blacklisted former employee to some 30 Singapore government schools. The Commission found the e-mail notice of naming and shaming was not justified as,…
EFF: Why We Oppose French Attempts to Export the Right To Be Forgotten Worldwide
Kate Tummarello writes: One country’s government shouldn’t determine what Internet users across the globe can see online. But a French regulator is saying that, under Europe’s “Right to be Forgotten,” Google should have to delist search results globally, keeping them from users across the world. That’s a step too far, and would conflict with the…
Worried about US surveillance, Internet Archive announces mirror in Canada
Cyrus Farivar reports: In a Tuesday blog post, Brewster Kahle, the founder of the Internet Archive, announcedplans to mirror the entire massive repository in Canada—largely over fear of the incoming Trump administration. “On November 9 in America, we woke up to a new administration promising radical change,” he wrote. “It was a firm reminder that institutions…