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'Completely unworkable': The plans to track your web habits
News The dynamic nature of web protocols would make the interception of web traffic for the entirety of the UK impractical, Linx's head of public affairs, Malcolm Hutty, told... [05 Aug 2009]
Home Office CIO on taming tech and why ID cards are good news
Comment The Home Office's role in safeguarding national security means Vernon has oversight of the most high profile and controversial IT projects in the UK, ranging from organising IT security at the London 2012 Olympic Games to the Impact... [10 Jul 2009]
Web snooping plans unworkable, say critics
News The Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP) calls for internet service providers to record the traffic details of all web communications. Not only are a multiplicity of... [18 Jun 2009]
Calls for gov't Phorm investigation rejected
News Various organisations, including the Foundation for Information Policy Research, have asserted that Phorm's interception of user traffic, prior to anonymising the data, contravenes Ripa. However, Marc... [21 May 2009]
Gov't denies mass surveillance tech
News Clayton added that interception of traffic data would probably not contravene UK law. The press statement said GCHQ is in the process of developing technologies that are "designed to work under the... [06 May 2009]
Facebook slams gov't snooping plans
News That's why [interception] needs to be targeted. We think monitoring all user traffic is overkill," Kelly said. There is legislation to allow law enforcement access to traffic data [of... [25 Mar 2009]
Snooping database has to happen says gov't
News Smith is thought to be referring to plans proposed under the Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP), which are believed to include proposals to siphon details of internet traffic from ISPs and store... [15 Oct 2008]
UK officials going snoop crazy
News Public bodies made 519,260 requests to phone and internet service providers under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, according to a report by the interception of communications commissioner Sir Paul Kennedy. [23 Jul 2008]
Phorm defends 'traffic-analysis' methods
News Phorm - whose Webwise and Open Internet Exchange (OIX) technologies were used by BT in a trial on its customers - says the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) is wrong to say the use of Phorm's technologies constituted... [11 Apr 2008]
Wi-Fi users warned of fake base station threat
News However, in October 2002, security company ISS published details of base-station cloning, otherwise known as an evil twin traffic interception. BaseStation Clone (Evil Twin) intercept... [21 Jan 2005]
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