surveillance uk government
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. Government has said local councils must cut back on Ripa... [05 Nov 2009]
Inbox: ID cards U-turn: The end is nigh?
Comment Great news and hopefully the beginning of the end for this crazy ID project.and for the government's other pointless, intrusive database and surveillance projects. Especially if UK... [06 Jul 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... [21 May 2009]
'Police drowning in CCTV data': Acpo
News In February a House of Lords committee called for an end to "pervasive" surveillance in the UK. In fighting crime, mass surveillance through CCTV is highly questionable. Technology is... [18 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... [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... [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. However, in February the Commission... [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. Local... [06 Apr 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... [12 Mar 2009]
Beware - Big Brother is watching you get drunk
Comment 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. This week's silicon.com inbox is bursting... [10 Feb 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 A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: "The government has been clear that where surveillance or data collection will impact on privacy they should only be used where it is necessary and proportionate. [06 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 UK government has... [05 Jan 2009]
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