Zack Kaldveer, Communications Director, Consumer Federation of California and author of the blog Privacy Revolt, has a commentary on the California Progress Report that provides an overview of the smart grid system and its privacy implications that could be a good overview for those first trying to understand the issue. It begins: A critically important…
Category: Surveillance
AU: Police to have power to strip-search at random
Tom Reilly reports: Police will soon have sweeping powers to search people at random, including strip-search, even if there is no reasonable suspicion those targeted have done anything wrong. The ”stop and search” tactic is part of a law and order crackdown set to be passed by State Parliament, despite the Government conceding that the…
Virgin Media to trial filesharing monitoring system
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…
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,…