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EU Justice Ministers remain broadly committed to extending the DP Regulation's territorial scope
March 07, 2014 - EU Justice Ministers remain broadly committed to extending the DP Regulation's territorial scope At the EU's Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting on 3 and 4 March, the Justice Minsters had a debate on the proposed EU Data Protection Regulation. They broadly supported the draft provisions regarding the territorial scope of the Regulation, which would make the Regulation applicable, for example, to US companies with customers or users of their services in the EU. According to the Council's press release, Ministers agreed that more technical work will need to be done on international data transfers and alternative models will need to be studied in-depth. The Council confirmed that work will continue at a t...
U.S. Service Members Accused In Japan Sex Crimes Unlikely To Serve Time
March 03, 2014 - At U.S. military bases in Japan, most service members found culpable in sex crimes in recent years did not go to prison, according to internal Depa...
New Twist: Criminal Record Checks For Antilleans Is Racist
February 27, 2014 - Plans by the government to introduce income and criminal record checks on people from Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten who want to move to th...
Ontario Cops Stopping Record Check
February 24, 2014 - London, Ontario police are phasing out one form of background check, but most citizens won’t be affected. The widely known “cr...
Can't Slip It By Those Canadians
February 19, 2014 - It will be harder for people with criminal records to hide their past by changing their legal name. Before, there was no mandatory connection b...
Fake Police Verification Racket Busted
February 17, 2014 - Vanaraj, 58, resident of Chennai, and H Asrani, 42, resident of Mumbai and director of CRP Technologies India Pvt Ltd, allegedly involved in fake p...
Buy India Criminal Record searches From Someone You Can Trust
February 17, 2014 - Straightline International and Steven Brownstein are the names you can trust doing India criminal record searches. On the wake of a "reput...
Swedish Record Database Hacked
February 13, 2014 - Recently launched, Lexbase.se allowed users to search its database for names of convicted criminals. The service also allowed people to search...
Public Records Public In Sweden
February 04, 2014 - A controversial new site that lets Web users check out the criminal records of their friends and neighbours has caused outrage among privacy expert...
Investigating Criminals: Why They Reoffend And What To Do About It
January 24, 2014 - On any given day, one of the busiest places in any town will be the building that houses the District Court. These complexes are routinely thro...
Number Of Cops Abusing Police National Computer Access On The Rise
January 16, 2014 - The number of Metropolitan Police officers investigated for misusing a controversial police database has more than doubled in the past five years,...
Crime associated with higher mortality rates
January 14, 2014 - A new study, published in the journal PLOS ONE shows that people with drug-related criminal records in Norway have a mortality rate that can be up...
Ontario revamps public access to court documents
January 02, 2014 - In a move to make Ontario’s justice system more open and transparent, the Ministry of the Attorney General has revamped its policy on public...
France Investigating Ikea on Spying Allegations
December 30, 2013 - Prosecutors have placed three senior Ikea executives in France under investigation amid allegations that they authorized illegal spying on employee...
Israeli Bill Would Wipe Clean Criminal Record Of Combat Soldiers
December 17, 2013 - Combat soldiers with a criminal past will be given a “second chance,” according to a bill approved by the Knesset plenum. The bill,...
In India, Maharashtra tops list of women arrested for crime
December 13, 2013 - Maharashtra has witnessed more women being arrested in criminal cases from 2010 to 2012 than any other Indian state. Statistics compiled by the...
Shanghai Intermediate court launches mobile app
December 09, 2013 - Shanghai No.1 Intermediate People's Court has launched its mobile online litigation service application as part of its effort to make its court...
Calgary Looking To Move Police Information Checks Online
December 05, 2013 - Police information checks are often required for job applications and volunteer positions, and Calgary is looking to make the process easier for ci...
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