The claim by London’s Metropolitan Police that the interception of messages is only illegal when the message has not been listened to, read or collected by the recipient has been challenged by a privacy law expert. The Met’s Assistant Commissioner John Yates told MPs that the police force’s legal advice was that it was not…
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MfD: BIS offers “tax-free money” for encryption system
The Czech counter-intelligence service (BIS) has offered “tax-free money” to the CircleTech private firm for an encryption system, the daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) writes Monday. CircleTech co-owner Jiri Satanek succeeded in recording three meetings with BIS officers secretly, the paper adds. BIS spokesman Jan Subert told MfD that the service would investigate the case….
AU: Privacy watchdog slams complaints report
Josh Taylor reports: Assistant Privacy Commissioner Mark Hummerston has rejected the conclusions of a report into telecommunications privacy complaints handling that found the Office of the Privacy Commissioner lagged behind its counterparts in response times. The report released earlier this week by the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) found that the average time for the…
Masses opting out of Google Street View in Germany
Google is facing fierce opposition to its Street View service in Germany with hundreds of thousands opting out, Der Spiegel news weekly reported in its latest issue. Ahead of an October 15 deadline, “several hundred thousand people” have told the Internet giant that they do not want their home or business to be visible on…