Under legislation expected in next month’s Queen’s Speech, internet companies will be instructed to install hardware enabling GCHQ – the Government’s electronic “listening” agency – to examine “on demand” any phone call made, text message and email sent, and website accessed in “real time”, The Sunday Times reported. A previous attempt to introduce a similar…
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Illinois House OKs ban on password snooping by bosses
Interesting news from Illinois, from Associated Press: The Illinois House wants to bar employers from asking workers and job applicants for access to social media like Facebook. The legislation passed 78-30 Thursday and now goes to the Senate. Read more on KFVS. Information on the bill can be found here (full text as engrossed here)….
3 things we don’t know about Obama’s massive voter database
Lois Beckett has an interesting news report on President Obama’s re-election campaign database. If you’ve contacted the campaign or used that site, you might want to read her coverage in the Tucson Sentinel. Here’s a disturbing snippet: 3. Is there any way to erase yourself from the campaign’s database? As far as we can tell,…
Twitter and Google reject UK calls for censorship
Warwick Ashford reports: Google and Twitter have rejected calls by a UK parliamentary committee to introduce measures to stop users breaking privacy injunctions, saying it would be impossible to censor content effectively. The cross-party select committee of MPs and peers said in a report that the government should consider introducing legislation that would force Google…