Karlin Lillington reports: The Garda made more requests for phone-call traffic data in 2008 than police in Germany, which has 20 times the population of the Republic. According to a leaked draft of a European Commission report, gardaí made more than 14,000 access requests for call data in 2008, a rate about 40 per cent…
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Coalition government to roll back privacy and civil liberties intrusions
The U.K.’s new coalition government has issued a statement of agreement on some key issues. What is sure to warm the cockles of privacy advocates’ hearts, here’s the section on civil liberties: The parties agree to implement a full programme of measures to reverse the substantial erosion of civil liberties under the Labour Government and…
European data protection group faults Facebook for privacy setting change
The Article 29 Working Party press release issued yesterday may also have something to do with Facebook’s emergency privacy meeting today: The Article 29 Working Party, the group of European data protection authorities, told Facebook in a letter today that it is unacceptable that the company fundamentally changed the default settings on its social-networking platform…
UK: ID cards, National Identity Register scrapped
David Meyer reports: The Conservative-Liberal Democrat government has confirmed that it will scrap the ID cards scheme and the National Identity Register. “Applications can continue to be made for ID cards, but we would advise anyone thinking of applying to wait for further announcements,” the Home Office said in a note on its website on Wednesday….