The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a decision Friday allowing two people to file habeas corpus petitions against removal orders from the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) despite provisions of the REAL ID Act removing jurisdiction from federal courts to hear such claims when they are late. Read more on JURIST.
Tom Jowitt reports: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has confirmed it is looking into the process that TalkTalk uses to monitor the web addresses that its customers are using. The news that TalkTalk was monitoring its customers’ online activity, as part of a trial for a new anti-malware system, first came to light in late July. Read more on [...]
Nicholas Watt reports: British democracy risks becoming a “laughing stock” around the world unless allegations about phone hacking on behalf of the News of the World are fully investigated, a former Labour minister warned today. Tom Watson, a member of the Commons culture select committee, issued a point-by-point rebuttal of arguments by ministers and News International dismissing [...]
Adam M. Gershowitz of the University of Houston Law Center has an article in a forthcoming issue of the Iowa Law Review, “Password Protected? Can a Password Save Your Cell Phone from the Search Incident to Arrest Doctrine?” Here’s the abstract: Over the last few years, dozens of courts have authorized police to conduct [...]
Simon Bradshaw of University of London – Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Christopher Millard of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies; Oxford Internet Institute, and Ian Walden of Queen Mary University of London, School of Law have a working paper that reports the results of their survey of 31 Cloud services offered by 27 discrete providers [...]
New Zealand Justice Minister Simon Power issued the following press release: Police can now collect DNA at the same time they take fingerprints from people they intend to charge and match it against profiles from unsolved crimes, Justice Minister Simon Power said today. The Criminal Investigations (Bodily Samples) Amendment Act allows police to take a person’s DNA [...]
India’s Unique Identification System (UID) continues to be controversial. The government, of course, insists that there are adequate privacy and security controls. PTI reports: The Unique Identification System had an inbuilt security and privacy component that ensured that the data from the data bank could not be accessed except on grounds like [...]
Paul Syvret comments on the state of police surveillance in Australia: Never before have our everyday activities been so monitored and so subject to scrutiny. Take, just for starters, the debate swirling over the police practice of “street checks”. These are when innocent citizens are stopped and interrogated by police and their details recorded. They are identified and [...]
David Needle reports: Google has announced plans to roll out a more streamlined version of its privacy policies next month. The search giant insists the move to simplify its policies is designed to reduce “legalese” and make its policies more accessible to consumers. “To be clear, we aren’t changing any of our privacy practices; we want to [...]
Jane Fae Ozimek reports: Children’s Rights Group ARCH has threatened to take the Information Commissioner to a judicial review after the data regulator declined to take enforcement action the Youth Justice Board for unlawfully collecting and distributing data. According to Terri Dowty, Director of ARCH, the Youth Justice Board (YJB) is continuing to process data without [...]* RSS Newsfeeds compiled by pogowasright.org, used with permission.
