Retention Law

The Pakistan government is planning to amend the Army Act of 1952 to have greater authority over the appointment and retention of the Army chief, the defence minister has said, days ahead of the scheduled retirement of General Qamar Javed Bajwa.

Facebook introduced a protocol in 2018 allowing the company’s employees to access data that users deleted, according to a former content screener. Earlier this week, Brennan Lawson sued Facebook parent company Meta, claiming he was fired for raising alarms about the new protocol, which appeared to violate EU digital privacy rules and an FTC order...

The Centre today favoured in the Supreme Court the retention of penal law on adultery, saying that it is a public wrong which causes mental and physical injury to the spouse, children and the family.

Under the data retention law, firms will need to keep data on telephone calls, as well as online traffic through IP addresses.

Setting aside the penal defamation laws would lead to "anarchy" and no "orderly society" can have a situation where everybody can say anything against anybody, the Centre today told the Supreme Court, pitching for its retention in the statute book.

IBM has quadrupled the number of cloud data facilities it offers around the world to 49 in the past 18 months, responding in part to laws requiring the local retention of data following revelations over US government Web surveillance as well as increased corporate compliance rules.

Concerned after a European court ruled in favor of citizens' right to privacy, Britain's prime minister pledged Thursday to rush through emergency measures to force phone and Internet companies to store call and search records for a year.

The Pakistan government is planning to amend the Army Act of 1952 to have greater authority over the appointment and retention of the Army chief, the defence minister has said, days ahead of the scheduled retirement of General Qamar Javed Bajwa.

Facebook introduced a protocol in 2018 allowing the company’s employees to access data that users deleted, according to a former content screener. Earlier this week, Brennan Lawson sued Facebook parent company Meta, claiming he was fired for raising alarms about the new protocol, which appeared to violate EU digital privacy rules and an FTC order...

The Centre today favoured in the Supreme Court the retention of penal law on adultery, saying that it is a public wrong which causes mental and physical injury to the spouse, children and the family.

Under the data retention law, firms will need to keep data on telephone calls, as well as online traffic through IP addresses.

Setting aside the penal defamation laws would lead to "anarchy" and no "orderly society" can have a situation where everybody can say anything against anybody, the Centre today told the Supreme Court, pitching for its retention in the statute book.

IBM has quadrupled the number of cloud data facilities it offers around the world to 49 in the past 18 months, responding in part to laws requiring the local retention of data following revelations over US government Web surveillance as well as increased corporate compliance rules.

Concerned after a European court ruled in favor of citizens' right to privacy, Britain's prime minister pledged Thursday to rush through emergency measures to force phone and Internet companies to store call and search records for a year.