Toby Helm and Jamie Doward report: Highly controversial plans to allow the police and security services full access to everyone’s internet browsing history have been abandoned by ministers in what is being presented as a dramatic climbdown over online surveillance. Amid fears in government that it would be unable to force new laws through parliament…
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UK: Why F-Secure and Others Are Opposing the Snooper’s Charter
Phil Muncaster writes: It’s widely expected that next week the government will unveil details of its hugely controversial Snooper’s Charter, aka the Investigatory Powers Bill. To preempt this and in a bid to influence the debate cyber security firm F-Secure and 40 other tech signatories presented an open letter opposing the act. The bill most controversially is…
HK: Disclosing someone’s identity via hyperlinks to anonymized court judgements violates Data Protection Principle
Site A describes a court case, but the names of the plaintiff and defendant are replaced with initials to protect their privacy. But if you go to Site B and do a search for the individual’s name, the search results provide a link to the court case. Are you violating some aspect of Hong Kong’s…
UK: Top cops demand access to the UK’s entire web browsing history
Alexander J. Martin reports: IPB Police have demanded to be given access to the whole of the public’s web-browsing history as part of the forthcoming Investigatory Powers Bill, due to be published in draft form next week. The government has been lobbied by senior police officers to include in its new surveillance legislation a requirement for…