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Archive for June 9th, 2008

MPs propose new safeguards for Government uses of personal data: “A Parliamentary committee has called on the Government to be more transparent about its uses of personal data and to adopt ‘a principle of data minimisation.’ Its report includes safeguards it recommends to avoid the UK becoming a surveillance society.”

The report entitled A Surveillance Society? is available here in html format, and here as a 119 page PDF file. The Oral and Written Evidence submitted to the Committee is also available as a PDF file.

(Via OUT-LAW News.)

Facebook profiles need shielding from media intrusion, say users: “Nine in ten web users want guidelines on what information the media can use from social networking sites and 78% would change the information they publish about themselves online if they thought it would later be reproduced in the mainstream media.”

(Via OUT-LAW News.)