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• Home Office accused of sexing-up mobile phone rescue

  
  CyberLaw Blog — Authority: 138
  Home Office accused of sexing-up mobile phone rescue : “ Comms data ‘essential’? Not really The Home Office is once again under attack for the standard of the evidence it uses to support its policies, this time over plans to harvest much more communications data.… “ (Via The Register – Public Sector ...
  9 hours ago

• SIGINT For The Masses

  
  UBIWAR — Authority: 434
  In another example of how the British government is increasingly incapable of telling bad ideas from very bad ideas, the BBC reports that they are going to plough ahead with plans to get communications service providers (CSPs) to monitor and store data on all traffic passing through and over their networks : The ...
  1 week ago

• Asset-seizing powers out of control | Chris Huhne

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 158
  Intrusive Al Capone powers will be extended to bodies such as the Royal Mail unless we stop the governments mission creep Powers originally given only to the police and police agencies to seize criminal assets are now being extended to councils and other public bodies, including the Royal Mail. Once again, legal ...
  1 week ago

• Patry’s Books, Update on Patriot Act Committee Review, and More

  
  The Command Line — Authority: 132
  William Patry’s next book His latest book, “Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars” is not surprisingly on my list to be read. Undoubtedly his planned new book will be even more provocative, clearly intentionally so, as he explains he is going to actually layout ideas for actively reforming copyright. And a ...
  1 week ago

• EU urges use of tracking boxes for motorists

  
  statism watch — Authority: 445
  Flashback: NY Times: Mileage Tax Would ‘Track Where Motorists Have Been’ | UK: ‘Spy-in-sky’ trials get the go-ahead despite Government promise to scrap road-pricing plan | Calls for GPS-tracked ’speed-limiting’ cars in UK | Oregon Governor Wants GPS-Tracked Vehicle Mileage Tax | Global ...
  2 weeks ago

• Indect e Adabts: Conselho da Europa aprova projecto de vigilância dos cidadãos da UE

  
  O Vigia — Authority: 119
  Como tenho amiúde afirmado , não param de nos chegar notícias da cada vez maior preparação para uma sociedade policial, onde todos nós seremos vigiados 24h por dia, desde que nascemos até morrer-mos. “Ninguém é mais escravizado do que aqueles que erroneamente acreditam ser LIVRES” Johann ...
  2 weeks ago

• Privacy watchdog OKs ‘naked’ airport scanners

  
  statism watch — Authority: 445
  So much for the privacy commissioner’s credibility. A compromise to your privacy is not ‘protection’ - all it takes is another staged event to galvanize public support around increased security, a bill quickly passed in the house, and you’re all walking through this thing. Some studies have reported ...
  2 weeks ago

• Britons Start To Fight Back Against the Surveillance State

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 141
  Having grown up in Britain, pre-surveillance state, it’s amazing to me that during the last twenty years the British have just meekly accepted the ever-increasing and encroaching surveillance powers used by all levels of government in the U.K. But at long last there’s some resistance, at least at the local level, ...
  3 weeks ago

• More Fear Mongering by the Camera Peddlers

  
  ARIZONA ATHEIST — Authority: 111
  An interesting article at CameraFRAUD.com explains how, after losing the bullshit argument about the safety aspects of cameras, theyre peddling the “cameras will help stop crime” bullshit thats just as untrue as their other claims. Well, lets just ask one of our neighbors shall we?In a 2007 article about Londons ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cell-Tracking Bills Require Info Dump for Missing Persons

  
  Threat Level — Authority: 773
  Mobile phone companies would have to immediately turn over location data to emergency responders to help them quickly track missing persons, if any one of the four bills floating in the House get traction. Ping data from a murder case unrelated to Kelsey Smith The law already allows, but does not automatically ...
  3 weeks ago

• House Considers Limiting Patriot Act Spy Powers

  
  Threat Level — Authority: 773
  Powerful House members are proposing sweeping reforms to U.S. surveillance law that puts them on a collision course with legislation in the Senate that favors domestic spying. Rep. John Conyers (D-Michigan), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, proposes limiting governments Patriot Act spy powers. The ...
  3 weeks ago

• PC Pro: Can invasive services survive Britain’s privacy backlash?

  
  CyberLaw Blog — Authority: 138
  Can invasive services survive Britain’s privacy backlash? | News | PC Pro Barry Collins, PC Pro, Posted on 19 Oct 2009 at 11:26 Former Sun boss Scott McNealy may once have advised that we have ‘zero privacy – get over it’, but it seems the British public isn’t ready to surrender its personal information ...
  3 weeks ago

• UK anti-terrorism strategy ’spies’ on innocent

  
  statism watch — Authority: 445
  This is behaviorism. Long discredited in psychology, it’s virulent tenets are still part of the operational methods of the micromanaging mandarins that seek state power. So now, a dossier is being built to define you, quantify you, reduce you to a number. Any deviation from your normal patterns of behavior will be ...
  4 weeks ago

• Once Again, Government Moves to Delay Release of Telecom Lobbying Documents

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 436
  Once Again, Government Moves to Delay Release of Telecom Lobbying Documents : Via EFF.org Updates . This evening, the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice filed yet another emergency motion with the Ninth Circuit, asking for a stay of the deadline to release telecom immunity lobbying ...
  4 weeks ago

• Federal Court Denies Government Attempt to Delay Release of Telecom Records. Again.

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 436
  Federal Court Denies Government Attempt to Delay Release of Telecom Records. Again. : Via EFF.org Updates . Today a federal district court denied the governments latest emergency motion asking for a 30-day stay in last Fridays deadline to release records relating to telecom lobbying over last years debate over ...
  4 weeks ago

• Wi-fi makes walls see-through

  
  Futurismic — Authority: 594
  Remember me mentioning the special paint for making wi-fi cold-spots ? Well, here’s a reason you might want to invest in some – via Bruce Schneier we discover that some folk at the University of Utah have found a way to surveil the inside of a building using wireless signals : The surveillance ...
  4 weeks ago

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