The UK is to share fingerprint information with Canada and Australia, with the US and New Zealand to follow soon, the Home Office said today. The collaboration will make it easier to detect people with criminal histories in other countries, speed up deportations and establish previously unknown identities, the Home Office said. The new data-sharing…
Category: Govt
Terms of agreement with Swiss government regarding UBS
The Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) today announced that the agreement with the Swiss government has been finalized. As a result of the agreement, the United States will receive substantially all of the accounts of interest when it initiated the John Doe summons against UBS on June 30, 2008. Under the agreement,…
UK Govt Mail Services operations manager on allegedly illegal mail screening
Which is exactly what the GMS have been doing. Just a little bit of background information. GMS is the Government Mail Service which are a department within government who protect government employees from terrorist attacks such as mail bombs, razor blades and probably anthrax – but they are only supposed to screen incoming mail to…
FTC hires privacy blogger
In yet another sign that the Federal Trade Commission is serious about examining online privacy, Christopher Soghoian said today that he’s accepted a job as technical consultant to the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection.Soghoian, currently with Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, is among the most influential researchers…