human rights
RSS human rightsSecurity, Risk and Human Rights: A Vanishing Relationship?
White Paper In contrast to many studies that link the weakening of human rights to the post-September 11th counter-terrorism policies, this paper seeks to attribute it to the gradual disappearance of the person as... [11 Nov 2009]
Setting Social Security Standards in a Global Society
White Paper Social security is declared as a human right in the major United Nations human rights instruments. However, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, access to any form of social... [11 Nov 2009]
Monitoring staff email and internet: The dos and don'ts
News Unlike workers in the US, employees in the UK do have an expectation of privacy in the workplace, and if you fail to follow best practice you could find your organisation on the wrong side of the law: under Article 8 of the Convention on... [22 Oct 2009]
Mark Zuckerberg
AS Profile It was forced to back down from a policy where it held perpetual rights to content uploaded by users in February. Summing up Zuckerberg's influence, one Agenda Setters judge said Facebook is "becoming the de facto... [08 Oct 2009]
Niklas Zennström
AS Profile If you thought that wasn't enough, there's a CSR angle too, in the form of Zennström Philanthropies, another company he co-founded which supports work on human rights, combating climate change and... [08 Oct 2009]
New Communications Capabilities Help Human Rights Campaigners to Help Others
White Paper Amnesty International's Irish Section faced a situation that its main office building was about to undergo an extensive 15-month refurbishment, which meant moving into temporary offices for an extended period. [19 Sep 2009]
'Europe needs its own clouds to fight US domination'
News She repeated her call for pan-European intellectual property rights licensing, and also called for new rules to encourage the digitisation of books - to achieve this latter goal, she said, the creation of a Europe-wide... [09 Jul 2009]
Web snooping plans unworkable, say critics
News These include Ripa, the Human Rights Act and the Data Protection Act. A government plan to allow the intelligence services to monitor all UK web communications is technologically impossible, according to... [18 Jun 2009]
Gov't denies mass surveillance tech
News The press statement said GCHQ is in the process of developing technologies that are "designed to work under the existing legal framework", and that blanket interception would not be legal under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act... [06 May 2009]
'Fundamentally flawed, almost certainly illegal': Gov't databases
News Anderson said 11 of the databases that are currently used or in the process of being developed by the government may contravene the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). We recognise the absolute... [23 Mar 2009]
UK is Big Brother capital of the world say Lords
News The report also said the government should act swiftly to comply with last December's ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that innocent people's DNA should be removed from the NDNAD, a decision... [06 Feb 2009]
Nasa hacker wins judicial review
News Todner said the review was granted on the grounds that the extradition may breach Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which states that no-one shall be subjected to "inhuman or... [23 Jan 2009]
Stopping corporate IT break-ins
News That information should be put into a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, which sets and controls staff access to applications and services, and then governed by a set of variables: have staff got permission to create/modify/delete a... [20 Jan 2009]
Investigation to turn inward on Ripa
News In her speech, Smith also conceded that the issue of the UK's vast DNA database "had been put back in the spotlight" by a recent European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) decision, which ruled that countries... [17 Dec 2008]
Data leaks highlight need for content security
Comment However given that the majority of data leaks involve "personally identifiable data", laws that protect privacy, most importantly the Europe Human Rights Law, come to bear. Human... [11 Dec 2008]
