Andrea Petrou writes: Big Brother Watch has spoken out against plans to implement changes to the e-privacy directive, which the government claims will strengthen privacy regulations in the online world. Alex Deane, director at the privacy organisation has also slammed the way the government has let Google get away with its Wi-Fi data sharing mishap….
Category: Non-U.S.
UK: Google ‘revealed location of centre for vulnerable women’
Nick Collins reports: Google failed to consider the safety of vulnerable women when it revealed the location of a secret refuge centre for at-risk women, an MP has claimed. He accused the search engine of a “staggering” invasion of privacy of the organisation, which houses women and children who have fled abusive homes and therefore…
Protect our privacy, say Malaysian consumer groups
Shahrim Tamrin has gotten privacy on the front page of the Malay Mail. In an article on October 25, Tamrin reports that an investigation by the paper found that personal information was being bought, sold, or traded, without any knowledge of those whose information it was. When the reporter asked the source of the databases…
UK: Over 100,000 stops-and-searches: zero terrorists
Jane Fae Ozimek reports: When it comes to wasting police time, the biggest offenders appear to be…the police. That, at least, appears to be the conclusion of the Home Office. Its official statistics, published today, show that while police stopped over 100,000 individuals last year to “prevent acts of terrorism”, there was not a single arrest for…