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Covert surveillance must be reserved for serious crimes, says government
News Local authorities must cut down on using covert-surveillance techniques to investigate petty offences, the government has said. Ripa (the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act) granted public authorities the power to... [05 Nov 2009]
A world where your every moment is recorded is coming
News With the arrival of online behaviour monitoring and omnipresent surveillance cameras, it's harder to find a corner of the world to claim as your own. In Total Recall, the new book from Microsoft researchers Gordon Bell... [21 Sep 2009]
Calls for gov't Phorm investigation rejected
News The regulatory body which oversees Ripa is the Office of Surveillance Commissioners (OSC). The Prime Minister's Office has rebuffed a public call for a government investigation into Phorm, saying that the independent... [21 May 2009]
'Police drowning in CCTV data': Acpo
News In fighting crime, mass surveillance through CCTV is highly questionable. In February a House of Lords committee called for an end to "pervasive" surveillance in the UK. The police cannot deal with the... [18 May 2009]
Virgin Media trials 200Mbps broadband
News Possible next-gen broadband apps could include HD and 3D TV entertainment services, remote delivery of IT support to home users, videoconferencing and home surveillance, according to the ISP. Broadband speed freaks take... [08 May 2009]
Gov't denies mass surveillance tech
News The government's electronic eavesdropping agency has denied developing technology that will enable the mass surveillance of UK citizens' web communications. The GCHQ announcement came after an article, co-authored by The... [06 May 2009]
Trio of research hubs to poke digital benefits
News The universities of Aberdeen, Newcastle and Nottingham have been selected as the trio of tech hubs charged with investigating issues including digital exclusion, healthcare and transport delivery, and the ethics of data handling in an... [29 Apr 2009]
Inside the government's Facebook monitoring plans
News Without the retention of communications data we would need more informants and more surveillance, which is more expensive and less effective. The government wants communications service providers to record, retain and... [27 Apr 2009]
EC slams UK over BT trials uproar
News Under those rules, EU countries have to ensure the confidentiality of communications by prohibiting the interception and surveillance of such communications without the user's consent. The European Commission has... [14 Apr 2009]
Who's monitoring your email?
News Currently, covert surveillance, such as accessing the data retained under the Data Retention (EC Directive) Regulations 2009, can be authorised in local authorities by junior executive officers. Internet service... [06 Apr 2009]
Cloud envelops Microsoft's embedded products
News Dallas listed medical systems and video-surveillance systems as examples of setups where customers have the need for dedicated servers to process information and to pass data over secure networks. Microsoft has extended... [31 Mar 2009]
'Fundamentally flawed, almost certainly illegal': Gov't databases
News The report said that this kind of mass surveillance is overly expensive and antithetical to principles of privacy, and pointed out that the idea had already been criticised by the information commissioner. [23 Mar 2009]
Berners-Lee slams DPI: "We must not snoop on the internet"
News In addition, UK government initiatives such as the Intercept Modernisation Programme have proposed using DPI to perform mass surveillance of the web communications of the entire UK population. The inventor of the world... [12 Mar 2009]
"We must not allow ourselves to become a Big Brother society"
News Liberal Democrat shadow home secretary, Chris Huhne, said in a statement: "We are sleepwalking into a surveillance state and should remember that George Orwell's 1984 was a warning, not a blueprint. Both the Conservative... [10 Feb 2009]
UK is Big Brother capital of the world say Lords
News New powers are needed to combat a culture of "pervasive" surveillance that has seen the UK become the most spied upon country in the world, the Lords said today. Citing instances where councils have spied on citizens... [06 Feb 2009]
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