Robert Winnett reports: Almost 20,000 council workers now have the right to enter people’s private homes without a warrant or police escort, new research has disclosed. The average local authority has 47 employees authorised to enter private homes, although some councils have hundreds of such inspectors. The Home Office recently admitted that 1,043 different laws…
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Privacy Theater: Why Social Networks Only Pretend To Protect You
TechCrunch Editor’s note: The following guest post was written by Rohit Khare, the co-founder of Angstro. Building his latest project, social address book Knx.to, gives him a deep familiarity with the privacy policies of all the major social networks. I’d be wishing everyone a happier New Year if it were easier to mail out greeting…
Ie: Hospital keeps secret DNA file
Mark Tighe reports: A Dublin hospital has built a database containing the DNA of almost every person born in the country since 1984 without their knowledge in an apparent breach of data protection laws. The in Temple Street is under investigation by the Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) since The Sunday Times discovered it has a…
“Facebook’s Anti-Privacy Settings” Exposed Polygamy Activists
The social networking site, Facebook.com, with its reported 350 million users, has presented itself as being an important tool for activists to safely organize and fight for their freedom from governmental tyranny. Late on Wednesday, December 9, 2009, asserting an intent to protect its users’ privacy, Facebook rolled out its new “Privacy Settings.” However, the…