Eddan Katz of EFF issues this call to action in a case mentioned previously on this blog: EFF has long pointed out that technology companies are complicit in human rights violations when they knowingly sell customized human surveillance technologies to repressive regimes that are then used to target people for arrest, torture, and disappearance. Now a…
Category: Non-U.S.
“Big Brother Gone Mad” UK-style: Council spends £29,000 on ‘bin snoopers’ to check your waste
Catherine Oakes reports: A council has employed two people to “snoop” inside bins in a move that residents have branded as “big brother gone mad”. The “recycling promotion officers” are tasked with checking what is being chucked away in South Derbyshire. The pair lift the lid on bins and have peek inside before jotting down…
AU: Legal body hits out at AFL deal
Reid Sexton reports on the controversy over Victoria police sharing information with the AFL, a topic previously covered on this blog here and here: Victoria’s professional association for solicitors has strongly criticised a controversial agreement between Victoria Police and the AFL that details how the organisations should share information about criminal investigations into players. The…
Mirror, mirror on the web
donalee Moulton discusses online reputation: … The study, Digital Footprints: Online Identity Management and Search in the Age of Transparency, also discovered that fully 60 per cent of Internet users surveyed said they are not worried about how much information is available about them online. Similarly, the majority of online adults (61 per cent) do not…