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Who sat in judgement...
Comment These days, she gets stirred up by issues concerning internet regulation, intellectual property rights and software patents, online privacy and data protection. silicon.com has drawn on the knowledge of an international panel to sift through a long... [03 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.04.08
Round-Up An elaborate stunt dreamed up by anti-ID cards campaigners No2ID and Privacy International is offering a reward for anyone capturing the fingerprints of the Prime Minister or Home Secretary. Wanted: fingerprints of one unkempt, jowly, harassed... [11 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Surfing at home, 'Big Brother' IT and batteries on planes…
Comment A good starting point would be a healthy debate about privacy in a technology-enabled world - leading to some rather tough constraints on what employers and government may do - rolling back the frontiers of some current (often carefully concealed... [10 Jan 2008]
Bruce Schneier
AS Profile He is also an Advisory Board member for the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Schneier designed the popular Blowfish and Twofish encryption algorithms and has served on the board of directors of the International Association for Cryptologic... [12 Oct 2007]
Leader: Time for tougher spam laws
Leader The UK could learn something from the US here - in giving the police and the Information Commissioner's Office more power to track down spammers and in creating more stringent penalties than the meagre fines provided in the current UK law: the... [19 Jul 2006]
Analysis: Does ID management invade workers' privacy?
Comment Everyone is entitled to privacy in their private life," explains Simon Janes, formerly the detective in charge of operations at the Metropolitan Police computer crimes unit and now international operations director for Ibas, a computer forensics... [10 May 2006]
Simon Davies and Gus Hosein
AS Profile And, whatever the outcome, Davies and Hosein will continue to fight for the protection of civil liberties through their ongoing work with Privacy International. Simon Davies and Gus Hosein are on the Agenda Setters list this year by virtue of their... [23 Sep 2005]
Security Q&A: Your questions answered (Part 3)
Comment This policy will then set out what is acceptable use and what can be expected in terms of privacy and security if personal business is conducted. What is the staff expectation of privacy and security that is enshrined within that policy? [06 Aug 2004]
Leader: US Big Brother plans panned
Leader US immigration plans to biometrically register every visitor to the country have this week been openly panned by Privacy International, which awarded the scheme the top prize at its Big Brother awards. [29 Jul 2004]
UK faces massive ID card challenges
Comment Ignoring the obvious outcry from the usual civil liberties lobby about the privacy of citizens being infringed there are legitimate concerns, raised by other members of the cabinet and the wider IT industry, about the cost of the project, the... [01 Dec 2003]
File-sharing takes off in West Bank refugee camp
Comment One of the brashest of a new generation of file-trading networks, it is serving as a new test case for the ability of high-tech security measures and international borders to preserve privacy on the net. [14 Aug 2003]
Don't blame the technology for 'Big Brother' society
Comment Predicting a Terminator or Matrix-style battle of the revolutionaries fighting the machines, Simon Davies of Privacy International is predicting mass civil disobedience and acts of sabotage to undermine this surveillance culture. [25 Jun 2003]
The silicon.com Weekly Round-Up: 14.03.03
Comment Richard Smith, an internet privacy and security consultant, told Wired that the development put him in mind of a scene in Minority Report, in which Tom Cruise enters a department store and is greeted by a personalised billboard advert. [14 Mar 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: The child porn-privacy row and more...
Comment The whole affair has raised the noise level about privacy and the internet, with some maintaining that the internet is now rotten with surveillance and privacy is no longer possible. International co-operation is working effectively against... [27 Jan 2003]
Drugs, mugs and microsoft bugs...
Comment Since then, campaign groups Privacy International, Liberty and Stand have been busy highlighting the possible dangers of such a scheme (did someone say Big Brother? Privacy International now reckons support for the government has dropped to less... [17 Jan 2003]
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