A bill that gives the Security Intelligence Service (SIS) stronger surveillance powers has been reported back to Parliament with only minor amendments. The bill was introduced in December last year and earlier this year the Intelligence and Security Committee heard submissions on it in secret, against the wishes of the Labour Party and the Greens….
Category: Laws
Michael Geist: Tories aim to heighten web-surveillance powers
Michael Geist writes: With the new parliamentary session scheduled to kick off within the next few weeks, two major initiatives will dominate the initial legislative agenda: passing a budget and introducing an omnibus crime bill that contains at least 11 crime-related bills. […] The first prong mandates the disclosure of Internet provider customer information without…
The Privacy Bomb: How to Tame and Feed Big Data
John Henry Clippinger writes: Many hope that the “privacy problem” will simply go away. There is just too much money to be made keeping the status quo. But that won’t happen. The “privacy bomb” is about to go off, leveling business models and ambitions with a “big bang” to be heard around the globe. Read…
Social-networking sites face new privacy battle
Wyatt Buchanan reports: California could force Facebook and other social-networking sites to change their privacy protection policies under a first-of-its-kind proposal at the state Capitol that is opposed by much of the Internet industry. Under the proposal, SB242, social-networking sites would have to allow users to establish their privacy settings – like who could view…