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		<title>South Australia proposes law for breach of privacy in digital era</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2016 23:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The SA Law Reform Institute is recommending the State&#8217;s Government establish a civil law, with a public interest test, to cover serious invasions of privacy in the digital era. According to the Institute&#8217;s Report, it is unlikely that a common law privacy action will emerge through the courts in Australia in the foreseeable future. Accordingly, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australian State of NSW to go it alone on a tort of privacy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2016 01:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an unexpected and controversial move, a New South Wales parliamentary report recommends that the State &#8216;take the lead&#8217; by introducing a statutory cause of action for serious invasions of privacy, reports Allens.]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re not the Internet content police, says ICANN</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2015 01:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ICANN has declared it is not, and cannot be, a content regulator. In a recent blog post, ICANN&#8217;s Chief Contract Compliance Officer, Allen R. Grogan, states ICANN &#8220;was never granted, nor was it ever intended that ICANN be granted, the authority to act as a regulator of Internet content&#8221;. Accordingly, despite calls for it to do so, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FTC cracks down on &#8216;revenge porn&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2015 00:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is taking action against people who post nude pictures of others along with identifying personal information, reports Vorys.]]></description>
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		<title>Invasion of privacy tort proposed for Australia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2014 05:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Privacy in Cyberspace]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has proposed a new statutory tort to deal with invasions of privacy in the digital era. In its Final Report on &#8220;Serious Evasions of Privacy in the Digital Era&#8220;, the ALRC proposed that the new tort should apply where there has been: a serious intentional or reckless intrusion into seclusion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN passes resolution on Human Rights on the Internet</title>
		<link>http://achristie.com/un-passes-resolution-on-human-rights-on-the-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2014 12:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Privacy in Cyberspace]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At its 26th session recently, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UN HRC) adopted a resolution on the promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the internet. The UN HRC resolution affirms “that the same rights that people have offline must also be protected online, in particular freedom of expression, which is applicable regardless [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU Court strikes down data retention Directive</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2014 05:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Privacy in Cyberspace]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Europe&#8217;s highest court has declared invalid on privacy grounds the EU Directive on retention of electronic communications data. EU Directive 2006/24/EC harmonises the obligations on communication service providers to retain traffic, location and user identification data. The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that by requiring the retention of those data and by allowing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN General Assembly adopts resolution on privacy and surveillance</title>
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		<comments>http://achristie.com/un-general-assembly-adopts-resolution-on-privacy-and-surveillance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2014 07:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 18 December 2013, the United Nations General Assembly adopted by consensus Resolution A/RES/68/167 on &#8216;The right to privacy in the digital age&#8217;. As IP Watch reports, the genesis of the resolution is concern about the pervasive surveillance programs revealed by Edward Snowden. While the resolution in question does not directly condemn any particular practice, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California criminalises &#8220;revenge porn&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2013 08:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Privacy in Cyberspace]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[California has enacted a first-of-its-kind state law criminalizing &#8220;revenge porn&#8221; &#8211; the distribution of private, explicit photos of other people on the Internet, usually by ex-lovers or spouses, to humiliate them. California already has a law that makes it a crime to take sexually explicit photos of another person without his or her consent. The new revenge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No &#8216;right to be forgotten&#8217; says CJEU AG</title>
		<link>http://achristie.com/no-right-to-be-forgotten-says-cjeu-ag/</link>
		<comments>http://achristie.com/no-right-to-be-forgotten-says-cjeu-ag/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2013 01:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Privacy in Cyberspace]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the EU has concluded there is no &#8216;right to be forgotten&#8217; under the present EU law. According to the  AG&#8217;s opinion in the &#8216;Spanish Google case&#8217;, the right does not exist in the present EU Data Protection Directive. The final decision of the CJEU is awaited before the [...]]]></description>
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