Tracey Dalzell Walsh reports that Cable One, whose homepage logo says “Watch us make you smile,” is being sued for allegedly watching its customers without their consent: A federal class action accuses Internet provider Cable One of “interception and eavesdropping” by installing devices in its broadband network so that NebuAd, an Internet ad company, could…
Category: Surveillance
Bob Barr: DNA database bill should be deep-sixed
Bob Barr writes: A few years back, I hosted a nationally-syndicated radio program, modestly called “Bob Barr’s Laws of the Universe.” One of the laws most frequently cited during the three years I hosted the weekly show, was Law Number Three: “No matter how much information government has, it always wants more.” This came to…
Swedish Search Engine Site “Invades privacy”
Google and its Swedish competitor hitta.se are the subject of escalating complaints about invasions of privacy, according to newspaper Syndsvenskan. The complaints centre on the search engines websites use of “streetviews” which zoom in on objects, including people, in extreme close-up, without the protection of annonymity enjoyed by other countries. Sydsvenskan writes that anyone hoping…
500,000 EU computers can access private British data
Jamie Doward reports: Privacy campaigners expressed shock last night after it emerged that large amounts of confidential personal information held about British citizens on a giant computer network spanning the European Union could be accessed by more than 500,000 terminals. The figure was revealed in a Council of the European Union document examining proposals to…