Rachel McAthy reports: Leading judges today advised a parliamentary committee against trying to too “tightly” define areas of privacy law, suggesting instead that it “would be better to leave it to judges in the main”. Appearing before the joint committee on privacy and injunctions, Sir Nicholas Wall, president of the family division of the high…
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Follow Your Heart: Darpa’s Quest to Find You by Your Heartbeat
Adam Rawnsley reports: The U.S. military can see you breathing on the other side of that wall. It can even see your heartbeat racing while you crouch behind the door. But if you think running farther away or hiding in a crowd will make you invisible to the Defense Department’s sensors, you might be in…
The Surveillance Catalog: Where governments get their tools
From the WSJ: Documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal open a rare window into a new global market for the off-the-shelf surveillance technology that has arisen in the decade since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The techniques described in the trove of 200-plus marketing documents include hacking tools that enable governments to…
‘Unenforceable’ right to be forgotten should not be included in new EU data laws, ICO says
Giving individuals the right to force organisations to delete the personal information they store them about would be misleading, unenforceable and have “implications” for free speech, the UK’s data protection watchdog said. “The framework should strengthen individual rights to object to and block processing, and to have their data deleted, and reverse the burden of…