Irked after a lawyer attached copies of the personal diary of an 11-year-old in the documents submitted in a custody dispute case, the Delhi High Court has issued directions to protect the privacy of children in custody and matrimonial disputes. The court of Justice S Muralidhar, in its order issued on Thursday, noted that there…
Google must respect the European Union’s ‘right to be forgotten’ court ruling on all its sites, not just those it says target EU countries, the French data protection authority has ruled, giving the company 15 days to comply. The French National Commission on Computing and Liberty (CNIL) ordered Google to remove the affected search results…
May 31 was the six-year anniversary of the day abortionist George Tiller was shot and killed. Planned Parenthood is openly mourning Tiller’s death and celebrating his life’s work: ending the lives of helpless, innocent babies. Of course, Planned Parenthood isn’t wording it quite like that. Instead, the organization is focusing on Tiller’s words, “Trust women.” It is…
If a Google search of your name turns up a naked selfie you once sent to your ex or other intimate material, what do you do, other than resign yourself to the fact it will be there for potential employers and the rest of the world to see, forever? In the case of former Formula…
Children’s right to privacy online has long been a vexed issue. That is reflected in a UN convention that upholds it, but also upholds the right of parents to exercise their responsibilities, which implies an appropriate level of guidance and oversight. Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog commissioned research that highlighted another aspect. It found that parents…
In the United States, Monday is Memorial Day — a day when Americans should pause and focus on the ultimate price paid by so many over the centuries to defend our liberty, our right to privacy, even our financial freedom. In 1971, Memorial Day was declared a national holiday by the U.S. Congress. But the…
OVER THE PAST two decades, few voices have shouted louder from the rooftops about global cybersecurity and digital privacy concerns than Bruce Schneier. He’s the CTO of Resilient Systems, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and has authored 14 books—his latest, Data and Goliath, was published in March. As Facebook and Google have infiltrated our…
Britain’s relationship with privacy is complicated. Our strongly ingrained attachment to the benefits of private property underpins the idea that personal privacy is about the existence of an almost physical sphere. It is one of the reasons that phone-hacking by journalists seemed such a shocking means of intrusion: it amounted to an almost visceral entry…
Firms such as Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. will face stiffer fines if they violate Europe’s “right to be forgotten” online rules, according to a draft text agreed by European Union ambassadors on Wednesday, diplomatic sources said. E.U. member states are negotiating an overhaul of the bloc’s outdated privacy laws in a bid to make…
The government today said that the details of the proposed Right to Privacy Bill are yet to be finalised as it responded to a query in Parliament on a reported request by intelligence agencies that they be kept out of its purview. “The drafting of the Bill is at the preliminary stage and the details…