Government faces fight from within for spy database – Times Online: “From The Sunday Times, October 19, 2008 A Home Office revolt is stalling a plan to store our e-mails and calls but a more…
Passports will be needed to buy mobile phones – Times Online: “From The Sunday Times, October 19, 2008 David Leppard Everyone who buys a mobile telephone will be forced to register their identity on a…
Fraudsters’ website shut in swoop: “A website where criminals traded credit card details and bank log-ins is shut down after a police operation.” (Via BBC News.)
Man who killed wife over Facebook posting jailed for life: “Wayne Forrester attacked his wife with kitchen knife and meat cleaver after she changed her Facebook profile to ‘single’” (Via Latest news, sport, business, comment…
Holocaust denial accused intended no offence, extradition hearing told: “Australian historian challenges validity of German-issued arrest warrant after being held at Heathrow” (Via Latest news, sport, business, comment and reviews from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk.)
Britain Considers Database for Telephone and E-Mail Traffic: “The country’s independent reviewer of terrorism laws, Lord Carlile, said the government should not be allowed to set up a vast ‘data warehouse.’ (Via NYT > Technology.)
Court of Appeal orders men to disclose encryption keys: “Two men have been told that they cannot rely on their right to silence to refuse to give British police a computer password.” (Via OUT-LAW News.)
Government gives more detail on communications surveillance plan: “The Government has postponed planned legislation which could create a giant central database containing records of every email, web session and phone call made in the UK.”…
China watches over internet café customers in web crackdown: “All visitors to internet cafés in Beijing are to be required to have their photographs taken in a stringent new control on the public use of…
Hoon: Not building überdatabase would be terrorist licence to kill: “ Fear? Hyperbole? He’s heard of them Transport secretary Geoff Hoon said last night that if the government is not able to harvest details of…