Tom Reilly reports: Police will soon have sweeping powers to search people at random, including strip-search, even if there is no reasonable suspicion those targeted have done anything wrong. The ”stop and search” tactic is part of a law and order crackdown set to be passed by State Parliament, despite the Government conceding that the…
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Virgin Media to trial filesharing monitoring system
Chris Williams reports: Virgin Media will trial deep packet inspection technology to measure the level of illegal filesharing on its network, but plans not to tell the customers whose traffic will be examined. The system, CView, will be provided by Detica, a BAE subsidiary that specialises in large volume data collection and processing, and whose…
Google, EBay Wanted as Prisoners of Privacy Wars
A commentary by Ann Woolner about some international conflicts involving privacy laws and the Internet: Google Inc.’s top lawyer, David Drummond, appealed to a London audience last month to help fight censorship of the World Wide Web. He mentioned China, Turkey and Thailand as some of the worst offenders of free Internet speech. Yet Italy…
German authorities concerned about Google Analytics’ data protection compliance, says report
German data protection authorities are investigating whether Google’s web traffic measurement system Google Analytics routinely infringes privacy laws, according to a German newspaper report. Zeit reports that several regional authorities, as well as the national Federal Data Protection Commissioner, are investigating whether the use of the system is a breach of web users’ privacy rights…