Viewpoints of the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights: ‘Strong data protection rules are needed to prevent the emergence of a surveillance society’ [26/05/08] Surveillance technology is developing with breath-taking speed. This creates new…
EU – Commission replies on Phorm: “(Cable Forum) The ePrivacy Directive obliges Member States to ensure the confidentiality of communications and related traffic data through national legislation. In particular, they shall prohibit listening, tapping, storage…
EU – ENISA asks for new legislation on social networking sites: “(IDG) Europe’s top Internet security agency, ENISA, called for new legislation to police social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. ‘Social networking sites…
Bits: Google Fights for the Right to Hide Its Privacy Policy: “Google refuses to put a link to its privacy policy on its home page, challenging the standards of an advertising industry self-regulatory group it…
Former Prosecutor: ISP Content Filtering Might be a ‘Five-Year Felony’: “Broadband providers who snoop on customer traffic to deliver custom ads or shut down BitTorrent traffic may be violating the federal Wiretap Act, a law…
Facebook battles Google over access to user data: “Facebook has suspended the use of a Google service which allowed people to export their Facebook friends list to other websites, claiming that the Google service violates…
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…
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…