Chris Williams reports: Virgin Media will trial deep packet inspection technology to measure the level of illegal filesharing on its network, but plans not to tell the customers whose traffic will be examined. The system, CView, will be provided by Detica, a BAE subsidiary that specialises in large volume data collection and processing, and whose…
Category: Surveillance
Kr: Constitutional Court to Review Wiretapping
A court asked the Constitutional Court, Friday, to determine whether the Communication Protection Law allowing authorities to wiretap for an indefinite period in the course of investigations violates people’s right to privacy. The Seoul Central District Court said, “Excessive wiretapping could be taken as an infringement upon privacy regardless of the purpose of the investigation.”Currently,…
Obama Wants Computer Privacy Ruling Overturned
David Kravets reports: The Obama administration is seeking to reverse a federal appeals court decision that dramatically narrows the government’s search-and-seizure powers in the digital age. Solicitor General Elena Kagan and Justice Department officials are asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider its August ruling that federal prosecutors went too far when…
Growing outrage over Dutch fingerprint database
From the Deutsche Presse-Agentur: More than 3,000 people in the Netherlands have signed a petition demanding that the government overturn a law enabling it to store the fingerprints of all Dutch citizens in a central electronic database. Since September 21, everyone applying for a Dutch passport is obligated to provide four fingerprints for storage in…