New U.S. federal regulations violate the privacy rights of Canadian adult industry performers ?
posted by:Rafal Morek // 12:38 PM // June 23, 2005 // Digital Democracy: law, policy and politics
From the Ottawa Citizen:
"Canada's privacy watchdog has been asked to determine whether a U.S. clampdown on Internet pornography violates the rights of Canadian adult industry performers.
A lawyer representing a B.C.-based porn company wants Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart to see if contentious new U.S. federal regulations that take effect today offend Canada's privacy laws.
At issue are revisions to U.S. rules that require porn producers to keep photo ID and release forms from anyone who appears in sexually explicit images. The regulations, intended to combat child pornography, had been in effect since the early 1990s, but today they will be expanded to encompass Internet porn sites..."
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