UK.gov plans central database for all your communications: “ Brown team plots Ripa redux? The Brown government is considering a central database of all UK communications data including times and durations of phone calls, emails…
Read me first: Taking your laptop into the US? Be sure to hide all your data first, The Guardian: “Taking your laptop into the US? Be sure to hide all your data first, Bruce Schneier,…
UK – Criticism for ‘database’ plan: “(BBC) Plans for a super-database containing the details of all phone calls and e-mails sent in the UK have been heavily criticised by experts. The government is considering the…
Transcript: FBI director on surveillance of ‘illegal’ Internet activity: When the FBI suggested that it should be able to perform wide-scale Internet monitoring to detect ‘illegal activity’ on Wednesday, the bureau raised more questions than…
Here we go again as if these “voluntary” rating systems for web based content works… Net downloads to get age ratings: “Games and videos downloaded from the web are to be policed by a voluntary…
Home Office backs e-crime overhaul: “Home Office ministers are poised to give the green light for the establishment of a central e-crime reporting and investigation agency in the UK.” (Via OUT-LAW News.)
A Discomfiting Threat to Free Speech – New York Times: May 21, 2008, Editorial, A Discomfiting Threat to Free Speech The Supreme Court upheld a law on Monday that sweeps too broadly in its attempt…
FBI, politicos renew push for ISP data retention laws: FBI director Robert Mueller calls for new federal data retention laws forcing Internet companies to keep records of what their customers are doing, but without providing…
FBI’s Net surveillance proposal raises privacy, legal concerns: The FBI director and a Republican congressman sketched out a far-reaching plan this week for warrantless surveillance of the Internet. During a House of Representatives Judiciary Committee…
Now, you tell me if this a good idea? ‘Big Brother’ database for phones and e-mails – Times Online: “From The Times May 20, 2008, Richard Ford, ‘Big Brother’ database for phones and e-mails” A…