As we fill our homes with machines that are always listening or watching, clashes
between electronic privacy and law enforcement will occur ever more frequently.
Not exact matches
As health care moves from paper to wirelessly transmitted
electronic records, from face - to - face encounters
between patients and their doctors to digital encounters, and
between devices at the bedside to devices implanted in the body, questions arise regarding safety, reliability,
privacy, security, and responsibility.
The Minister has had a busy week, since he also announced a very broad
privacy and data protection law: «every individual shall have a right to his
privacy — confidentiality of communication made to, or, by him — including his personal correspondence, telephone conversations, telegraph messages, postal,
electronic mail and other modes of communication; confidentiality of his private or his family life; protection of his honour and good name; protection from search, detention or exposure of lawful communication
between and among individuals;
privacy from surveillance; confidentiality of his banking and financial transactions, medical and legal information and protection of data relating to individual.»
RAND Europe was commissioned by FTI Consulting to prepare a short paper exploring the conflict
between the European legal framework for
privacy and data protection and the sometimes competing requirements of
electronic discovery («e-discovery») imposed on US firms with European subsidiaries by legislation such as the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
Paragraphs 16 and 17 of the reasons raise an interesting tension and may highlight an important difference
between the common law
privacy tort and the operation of Canadian
privacy laws, including the Personal Information Protection and
Electronic Documents Act.
It was also argued that extension of coverage beyond the HIPAA transactions would be inconsistent with the underlying statutory trade - off
between facilitating accessibility of information in the
electronic transactions for which standards are adopted under section 1173 (a) and protecting that information through the
privacy standards.
According to a piece in today's Red Herring, Blogs Face
Privacy Showdown, there is a major showdown
between a plaintiff, a school superintendent in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who wants to unmask anonymous bloggers critical of him, and the
Electronic Frontier Foundation.