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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]
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. The government wants communications service providers to record, retain and... [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. 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. Kevin Dallas, general... [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]
"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. The government plans... [10 Feb 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 Home Office said on Monday it has... [05 Jan 2009]
Gov't spends £18m on comms surveillance
News The spokesperson also declined to comment on how Home Office proposals for a government-controlled centralised database of all citizen communications and internet usage, which caused protests from peers and civil liberties campaigners,... [07 Aug 2008]
Open source guru criticises Oyster software
News For the surveillance-mad government of the UK, this is like a dream come true. While disapproving of the use of Linux in the Oyster system, Stallman said there is not much that could have been done to stop Linux being... [10 Jun 2008]
RFID privacy law on the cards?
News Information society and media commissioner Viviane Reding said Europeans needed assurance that radio tags would not be used for large-scale surveillance, and said she would consider legislation concerning RFID and privacy. [18 Oct 2006]
Boeing zeros in on Linux for military aircraft
News Boeing will use Wind River's Linux to run surveillance and other mission computing tasks in the P-8A Multi-Mission Maritime Aircraft, a 737 modified for US Navy uses such as finding submarines and other tasks, said Chip... [31 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]
Compulsory ID cards for UK citizens within five years
News MPs also voted, by a majority of 51, in favour of making it compulsory for citizens to register their personal and biometric details on the National Identity Register when applying for or renewing "designated" documents such as a... [14 Feb 2006]
Leader: ID cards victory for silicon.com campaign
Leader We are dealing with a comprehensive system of surveillance and the idea government should get a blank cheque from us for it is odious. Today represents something of a landmark day in silicon.com's ongoing ID Cards on... [17 Jan 2006]
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