Richard Waters in San Francisco and Kathrin Hille in Beijing report: Google has drawn up detailed plans for the closure of its Chinese search engine and is now “99.9 per cent” certain to go ahead as talks over censorship with the Chinese authorities have reached an apparent impasse, according to a person familiar with the…
Category: Surveillance
The Biometric Center of Excellence
From the FBI: You’re seen it before in spy movies—someone gains access to a secret room through a thumbprint or eye scan. It’s not just fiction anymore. Systems like this now exist in both the private and public sectors. They’re based on what’s called “biometrics”—measurable behavioral and biological (anatomical as well as physiological) characteristics that…
UCLU apologise for releasing ISoc and RUMS Isoc personal information
Andrew de Castro reports: James Hodgson, UCLU [University College London Union] Student Activities Officer, admitted that “mistakes were made” when mobile phone numbers and email addresses of Islamic Society and Medical Islamic Society members were released to Anti-Terror Police, without a legal requirement to do so. The data was released in connection with the alleged…
Where’s The Outrage Over The Gov’t Brushing Mass Privacy Violations Under The Rug?
Mike Masnick comments: I have to admit that I’ve been a bit in shock over Congress’s decision to simply renew the Patriot Act, recently, without a single safeguard to protect against abuse. That’s because just before all this happened, we wrote about how a report from the government found (not for the first time) that…