Yes.
Absolutely. Every time.
Charles
Mabbett of the Office of the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner raises
a good question:
Is it acceptable for a lawyer acting for a client to send a very
private communication to a work email address of the other party?
A
complaint based on exactly this kind of scenario was made to the
Legal
Complaints Review Officer (LCRO) who provides independent
oversight and review of the decisions made by the standards
committees of the Law
Society and the Society
of Conveyancers.
In the complaint BO v DE from September last year, a lawyer acting
for a man in a relationship property matter emailed a letter to the
man’s ex-wife at her work address. The lawyer had been given the
address by his client, the former husband.
According to the LCRO’s decision, the woman was furious at
receiving “an intensely personal, embarrassing and defamatory”
email at her work address. Through her lawyer, she demanded an
apology from her ex-husband’s lawyer and she vigorously denied
suggestions in the letter about alcohol abuse and gambling. The
woman said the email and attachment had become the property of her
employer, and others in her workplace might have access to it.
Read
more on their blog
to find out what the review concluded.
If
Apple can send you a U2 album, they can send you advertising...
Yes:
That U2 Album Means Apple Can Send Data To Your iPhone
If
nothing else, you should never underestimate the ability of a geek to
cause trouble.
Toby
Manhire reports:
An already tumultuous
New Zealand election campaign took another dramatic turn less
than a week before polling day when the prime minister, John Key,
responded angrily to claims by the American journalist Glenn
Greenwald that he had been “deceiving the public” over assurances
on spying.
Greenwald, who is visiting New Zealand at the invitation of the
German internet entrepreneur Kim
Dotcom, says he will produce documents provided by the NSA
whistleblower Edward Snowden that prove the New Zealand government
approved mass surveillance of its residents by the Government
Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), New Zealand’s equivalent of
the NSA.
Read
more on The
Guardian.
Do
you have access to a piano?
Piano
Maestro Offers a Fun Way to Learn to Read and Play Sheet Music
Piano
Maestro (formerly known as Piano Mania) is a neat iPad app from
Joy Tunes. The new Piano Maestro app offers lessons on playing the
piano. Students place their iPads on their pianos or electronic
keyboards to view the lesson as they play along. The app offers
challenges of varying difficulty from simple one-hand lessons to
complex lessons requiring the use of both hands. Students earn
points for completing each lesson and mastering new songs. Teachers
can check their students’ progress by having students use the
“connect to teacher” feature of Piano Maestro.
Piano
Maestro is free to
download and access for basic lessons. More difficult
lessons and the larger catalog of music requires purchasing the
premium features. But this
fall Joy Tunes is offering Piano Maestro’s premium features for
free to registered music teachers and their students. The
premium features includes a library of more than 800 songs including
pop music songs from artists like Bruno Mars and Taylor Swift.
Dilbert
illustrates that saying something does not make it so...
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