surveillance law enforcement
Video Surveillance Trade-Offs - A Question of Balance: Finding the Right Combination of Image Quality, Frame Rate and Bandwidth
White Paper As video surveillance technology becomes indispensable in public safety and law enforcement around the world, one thing is clear: image quality is paramount. The benefits of video... [15 Aug 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]
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. To ensure that any updated law enforcement... [27 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. ISPs must also be able to... [06 Apr 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]
Legal Eye: Does Home Office online surveillance go too far?
Comment The EU's proposed extension of what it acknowledges to be "intrusive surveillance" means law enforcement officers will be authorised to covertly gain remote access and monitor a... [21 Jan 2009]
Full steam ahead for police plans to hack home PCs
News However, according to an Acpo statement, the police should also in some circumstances seek the approval of the surveillance commissioner, except in an emergency. The European Union Council of Ministers approved a plan in... [05 Jan 2009]
Cops enlist HAL in fight against crime
News Looking at how AI techniques can boost digital forensics, the government-funded Cyber Security Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) will examine the potential use of AI in web counter-terrorism surveillance, fighting... [05 Nov 2008]
Leak fears could set bosses spying on staff
News Big brother bosses will increasingly be tempted to turn to staff surveillance to stop insider leaks before they happen, says the head of a cyber security government body. Privacy campaigners have condemned greater... [04 Sep 2008]
Reporters sue over HP boardroom leak scandal
News In Kawamoto's case, HP investigators are accused of conducting surveillance of her movements. The suits come nearly a year after HP's investigation methods came under scrutiny from law... [16 Aug 2007]
Did Scotland Yard 'hack' Downing Street computers?
News Police are authorised to intercept electronic communications without notifying the subject of the investigation using powers such as the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act - the so-called 'snooping bill' - which provides a legal... [22 Jan 2007]
Tech group appeals ISP wiretapping diktat
News In mid-2003, representatives of the FBI's Electronic Surveillance Technology Section began quietly lobbying the FCC to force broadband providers to provide more efficient, standardised surveillance... [24 Jul 2006]
Police 'frustrated by deleted text messages'
News However, Moore argued, most crimes don't occur when a suspect is under surveillance. There's a difference between getting a warrant and keeping them under surveillance rather than arresting someone at... [27 Jun 2006]
Report slams US VoIP-tapping policy
News A 21-page study to be released today says it's impossible for the government to expect all products that use voice over IP, or VoIP, to comply with the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) September 2005 requirement mandating... [13 Jun 2006]
Net snooping rules challenged in court
News Universities, libraries and technology companies are asking a federal court to block controversial wiretap rules designed to facilitate police surveillance of the internet. But the organisations behind the lawsuit say... [30 Jan 2006]
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