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…
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…
Engadget 22/05/2008 20:28 Well, it took longer than 15 days to reach a resolution, but apparently RIM is going to back down and allow the Indian government to monitor the Blackberry network in that country….
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…
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…
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…
Criticism for ‘UK database’ plan: “Plans for a centralised database of all e-mail and phone calls in the UK are criticised by the IT industry.” (Via BBC News.)