Clare Dyer writes: A doctor who secretly filmed women with cameras hidden in bathrooms and accessed intimate images of hundreds more that were hacked from the iCloud has been struck off the UK medical register. Vinesh Godhania, 33, did not attend his medical practitioners tribunal hearing. He is serving a 32 month prison sentence, having…
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Abuse survivor awarded £30,000 in damages for Ecclesiastical privacy breach
Hattie Williams reports: THE Ecclesiastical Insurance Office (EIO) has apologised to an abuse survivor, Gilo, for breaching his confidentiality, and has paid £30,000 in damages. Gilo was sexually assaulted by the late Garth Moore, a former diocesan chancellor (News, 4 December 2015). After his long struggle to tell senior church figures about his ordeal, in 2016 the…
UK “Online Safety Bill” wants a backdoor on end-to-end encrypted messaging apps
Ken Macon writes: A proposed new amendment to the UK’s controversial “Online Safety Bill” would force tech companies to scan people’s private messages on end-to-end-encrypted apps. End-to-end encrypted messengers allow people to communicate securely without a 3rd party being able to see messages. Such technology is available in platforms such as WhatsApp and Signal. We…
Europe’s state of mass surveillance
Vincent Manancourt reports: Jack Murphy* was suspicious. His ex-girlfriend, Eve Doherty, seemed to know a lot about who he was calling. His suspicions were merited. Doherty had been using her job in the Irish police force to access his phone records, an investigation by the local judiciary revealed. Doherty was disciplined and transferred in 2011. Three…