David L. Sobel comments: The Obama Administration today issued its long-awaited Open Government Directive (OGD), a blueprint for transparency that the President promised on January 21, his first full day in office. The OGD is “intended to direct executive departments and agencies to take specific actions to implement the principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration”…
UK: Information Commissioner urges organisations to give individuals more privacy choices online
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: Today the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is launching an online consultation on a new draft code of practice which will provide organisations with a practical and common sense approach to protecting individuals’ privacy online. The new draft guidance explains how the law applies and calls on organisations to give people…
New DNA rules may still breach human rights
Chris Williams reports: The government’s plans to limit DNA retention from those arrested but not charged or convicted may not go far enough, according to the body that ensures human rights rulings are obeyed. Last month the Home Office said that – in response to a defeat at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)…
The Vancouver Statement of Surveillance, Security and Privacy Researchers about the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games
A group of researchers who participated in the Surveillance Games Research Workshop November 20-21 in Vancouver, B.C. have drafted a joint statement on security, surveillance and mega-events signed by international experts specializing in these areas. As researchers from Canada and the wider world, who are conducting research on the global security dynamics of mega-events, we…