Posted by Simon Perry on 30 April 2008 | Tagged as: Privacy, Government, Security, USA, Legal
We’re still reeling after reading this story last week that a federal appeals court in the US ruled that it was fine for US customs agents to go through the content of an airline passengers laptop with no evidence of wrong doing - just because they felt like it.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 19 March 2008 | Tagged as: Privacy, UK, Advertising, BT, Legal
Ask most people about their views on Phorm and you’ll either get a blank look or people turning purple with rage.
In brief: It’s a ’service’ that monitors all of your normal Web browsing, with the stated aim of providing personalised advertising to you. All of this monitoring is made possible under agreements with ISPs, including […]
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 17 March 2008 | Tagged as: Privacy, UK, Advertising, Legal
Sir Tim Berners-Lee voices opposition to net tracking technology
Posted by Simon Perry on 5 February 2008 | Tagged as: Privacy, Services
Online directory enquiry service 192.com have launched a new service which combines information on the UK Electoral Roll with the data they hold on phone numbers and addresses.
Those using the service are able to search for a people in the way you would expect with a directory, but by combining the Electoral Roll data with […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 11 December 2007 | Tagged as: Privacy, Services, Search
Ask.com is to allow users of its search engine to delete all of their queries from their server - a stark contrast to other major search engines, especially Google.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 10 December 2007 | Tagged as: Privacy, Government, Security, UK, Legal
The loss of private records of 25 million residents by a UK government department continues to make headlines.
The News of the World newspaper have obtained a March 2004 letter from Treasury risk manager Richard Fennelly following his analysis of the security of the child benefit records system.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 7 December 2007 | Tagged as: Privacy, Business, Government, Security, UK
Those in the UK will be all too aware of how government departments have been leaking UK residents data more furiously than a fire-hose blasting through a colander.
Following the loss of the bank details of 25 million UK families a few weeks ago, another loss has come to light.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 10 October 2007 | Tagged as: Privacy, Content, UK, Music
Those krazy kids, The Pet Shop Boys, have released their new single.
Why are we interested? Two reasons, it’s drawing attention to UK ID Card - which we think are are serious blow for the future of civil liberties in the UK - plus the video has also got QR codes in it - letting people […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 11 July 2007 | Tagged as: Privacy, Security, UK, Legal
The UK Information Commissioner doesn’t want to have to ask for permission to carry out data security audits on companies - as he does now.
Posted by Simon Perry on 18 May 2007 | Tagged as: Privacy, India, Security, UK, Legal
It’s one after another with the data-exposure blunders. Another clear reason why the Government can’t be trusted with your data.
