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Mobile directory - invasion of privacy or invaluable service?
Comment Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, was involved with Connectivity but left two years ago following the decision to use an opt-out system, which obviously isn't for appeasing privacy... [25 Jun 2009]
Photos: The UK's top CIOs
Photo Here Simon Post, CTO of the Carphone Warehouse, and number 7 in this year's Top 10, is talking to Vicky Maxwell Davies, partner at Boyden Global Executive Search.Photo credit: Chris Beaumont/CBS Interactive [19 Jun 2009]
Who's monitoring your email?
News Privacy campaigner Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK on Monday that data preservation, in which ISPs and telcos retain the data of specific suspects... [06 Apr 2009]
UK is Big Brother capital of the world say Lords
News Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, said: "This report reflects a sea change in public opinion. The UK is now watched by more about four million CCTV cameras and details of seven per cent of... [06 Feb 2009]
Inbox: Who's to blame for snail's pace broadband?
Comment Richard Davies, North Yorkshire Simon, Cumbria The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought-provoking of the reader comments silicon.com receives each week. Readers were back in full swing... [12 Jan 2009]
Full steam ahead for police plans to hack home PCs
News Privacy campaigner Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, called on the Home Office to reform the warrant process so remote searches of computer systems have judicial oversight.... [05 Jan 2009]
ID card costs rise - but is the security weakening?
News Director of Privacy International Simon Davies welcomed the removal of the Nirno, following concerns it could be cross referenced across multiple transactions - such as proof of age purchases or opening... [07 Nov 2008]
ID cards on driving licences - 'law can't stop us'
News Simon Davies, director of human rights group Privacy International, said: "It will bring almost the entire population into the scheme. Speaking today at the Biometrics Conference 2008, identity minister... [21 Oct 2008]
Inbox: ID guinea pigs, snooping database and CIO standards
Comment Richard Davies, North Yorkshire Richard Davies, North Yorkshire Simon, Cumbria The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought-provoking of the reader comments silicon.com... [17 Oct 2008]
Leak fears could set bosses spying on staff
News Simon Davies, director of pressure group Privacy International, said: "There is not any such thing as normal human behaviour and you would have to expect miscarriages of justice and misapprehensions to... [04 Sep 2008]
Google Street View cleared by UK privacy watchdog
News Simon Davies, the director of Privacy International, was worried that Google's face-blurring technology did not blur everyone's faces on Street View. Google's Street View mapping system has been given... [31 Jul 2008]
Stolen ePassports 'worth £20m' on black market
News Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, said: "It's unlikely that the stolen passports could easily navigate the UK borders but a criminal could use one indefinitely for 'flash and go' purposes. [29 Jul 2008]
Are sat-navs causing havoc on the roads?
News In the survey 10 per cent of drivers said their sat-nav had caused them to make a dangerous, late or illegal turn and reader Richard Davies from North Yorkshire said: "I have never heard anything like it in my life.these... [24 Jul 2008]
Privacy concerns over Google Street View
News The ICO was also waiting to hear from Simon Davies, the director of Privacy International, over his concerns that Google's face-blurring technology did not blur everyone's faces on Street View.... [09 Jul 2008]
Who voted on the CIO50?
Comment Vicky Maxwell Davies, partner, Boyden Global Executive Search Vicky Maxwell Davies is a partner with Boyden UK, focusing on placing CIOs and their top teams across a broad range of sectors. In 2002, as... [11 Jun 2008]
