Google had better hope former Tory shadow minister David Davis doesn’t return to a senior role in a future Conservative government. Its chief privacy counsel Peter Fleischer has given Davis a tongue-lashing for opposing Google Health and criticising Google’s privacy record. Davis was writing in The Sunday Times in opposition to Tories’ wish to give…
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Aussie net filtering trial deemed a success
Although not without controversy, the initial testing of the Australian government’s Internet filtering system has gone off with few problems according to reports from some of the participating ISPs. Five of the nine ISPs testing the government’s filtering system reported few problems during testing, even though only 15 customers participated at one and a couple…
EU expected to share bank details with U.S.
Although howls of protests have been raised, European Union foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday were expected to give the green light for further negotiations between the EU and the US on providing bank details to American authorities in terrorism investigations. […] In fact, the US has already had access to European banking information…
Rights group blasts Interior Ministry’s biometric ID bill
The Knesset Science and Technology Committee is due to hold another discussion on Monday about the controversial Inclusion of Biometric Identifying Features in Identity Documents and a Data Bank bill. Committee chairman Meir Sheetrit hopes to approve the bill for second and third readings in time for the final approval by the Knesset plenum before…