Police quiz BT on secret Phorm trials
Police quiz BT on secret Phorm trials: “ RIPA? Never heard of it officer… City of London police questioned BT earlier this week as part of a probe into the covert wiretapping and profiling of…
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French oppose sinister government database
French oppose sinister government database: Egan Orion , Friday 5 September 2008. 06:04:00 Ready to storm the Bastille again THE FRENCH populace, having returned from its annual summer vacation throughout the month of August, is…
Gonzales Violated Secrecy Rules With Spy Docs, Lied to Cover It Up
Gonzales Violated Secrecy Rules With Spy Docs, Lied to Cover It Up: “Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales repeatedly and knowingly mishandled ultra-secret documents about the government’s warrantless wiretapping program and lied to investigators about it,…
NebuAd suspends Web-monitoring plans
NebuAd suspends Web-monitoring plans: “ Silicon Valley start-up NebuAd has suspended plans to deploy a controversial program that displays ads based on the monitoring of Web activity while Congress reviews privacy concerns, according to a…
US Spying Court Stays Secret, Rejects ACLU Plea Again
Spying Court Stays Secret, Rejects ACLU Plea Again: “For the third time in a year, a secret spying court rejects an ACLU request to let some sunshine pierce its dark curtains of secrecy, ruling that…
UK.gov to spend hundreds of millions on snooping silo
UK.gov to spend hundreds of millions on snooping silo: “ Überdatabase pork barrel ahoy Exclusive The government is pressing ahead with plans to spend hundreds of millions of pounds on a massive central silo for…
Closing net
Closing net: “How surveillance snared UK jihadist ring” (Via BBC News.)
Guy Herbert: Zero privacy on the internet
Guy Herbert: Zero privacy on the internet: “Guy Herbert: The British government is taking extraordinary new powers to monitor everyone’s emailing, internet browsing and phone calls” (Via guardian.co.uk Comment is free.)
Councils get power to ‘spy’ on your e-mail and net use
The Home Office Consultation Paper entitled Transposition of Directive 2006/24/EC is available here, and the deadline for comments is 31 October, 2008. Councils get power to ‘spy’ on your e-mail and net use: “Councils and…
Home Office plans ‘snooper’s charter’
The Home Office Consultation Paper entitled Transposition of Directive 2006/24/EC is available here, and the deadline for comments is 31 October, 2008. Government publishes new, wider Data Retention Regulations: “The Government has published a draft…