privacy international in comment and analysis
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]
Throwing the book at Amazon
Comment UK lobbyists Privacy International and US groups EPIC and Junkbusters reckon that the biggest brand in cyberspace is flouting UK data protection laws, and are consequently considering legal action... [07 Dec 2000]
Keeping the data flow alive
Comment Privacy International has already taken action against Microsoft for this alleged breach of privacy. Our complaint requests that the Data Protection Registrar take legal action to order... [29 Mar 1999]
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... [17 Jan 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.... [27 Jan 2003]
Is this the end of the road for Amazon?
Comment As a direct result of Amazon's first skirmish with consumer law, Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, asked the company to remove his records from its database. Privacy... [06 Dec 2000]
Database Nation: Privacy Under Attack
Comment Because you weren't paying attention, you lost the chance to buy back your privacy. So the machines are coming, and with them you'll lose just a little bit more of your privacy and your dignity. All this... [07 Feb 2000]
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... [10 May 2006]
The spirit of Big Brother past
Comment On a day when Privacy International is giving out its Big Brother 'awards' to the perpetrators of the past year's major privacy infringements, the timing of this news could hardly be... [05 Dec 2000]
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... [25 Jun 2003]
The silicon.com Christmas Nativity Part II
Comment His Lord Hope (Conservative), having been briefed by such august bodies as FIPR and Privacy International (and silicon.com) raised grievous concerns in parliament. The scribes and... [20 Dec 2000]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Bordering on stupidity
Comment D is for Data privacy worries From the outset such an ideal has been fraught with international disagreements and tensions that start with the need to get standards in place. Certainly it is available on... [21 Aug 2008]
Loyalty card schemes: an expensive waste of time?
Comment A Demos study found last year that UK consumers trusted supermarkets less than any other institutions - because they think the stores don't respect personal privacy. But Perri 6, who commissioned the Demos study, 'The... [27 Aug 1999]
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... [01 Dec 2003]
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