Olivia Solon reports: The deep packet inspection techniques proposed by the UK government represent a “really serious” breach of privacy, according to Tim Berners-Lee speaking during his keynote speech at W3C. Talking about the controversial Communications Capabilities Development Programme, the inventor of the web said: “Somebody clamps a deep packet inspection (DPI) thing on your cable which reads every…
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What local cops learn, and carriers earn, from cellphone records
Bob Sullivan reports: The war on drugs has gone digital; but is it also a war on cellphone users? That’s just one of the questions raised by an msnbc.com investigation into use of cellphone tracking data by local police departments across the nation. Msnbc.com built a database of thousands of invoices issued by cell phone…
GSM operators fined TL 13.6 mln for violating privacy
I didn’t know anything about this situation in Turkey until a tweet by Aaron Martin alerted me to it: The Information Technologies and Communications Authority (BTK) has fined the country’s three major mobile phone operators, Turkcell, Avea and Vodafone, a total of TL 13.6 million ($7.5 million) for violating the privacy of their clients. These…
Privacy Lawsuit Against Wide Open West Sent To Arbitration
Wendy Davis reports: A federal judge has ruled that the bulk of a privacy lawsuit against the Internet service provider Wide Open West should go to arbitration. Wide Open West was among six Internet service providers that partnered with controversial behavioral targeting company NebuAd in 2007 and 2008 to test its ad-serving platform. Read more…