Street View has raised privacy concerns wherever it has launched but the UK’s privacy regulator the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has said that Google’s privacy protections are good enough to protect people’s privacy. A committee of all 27 EU member states’ privacy regulators, the Article 29 Working Party, has asked Google to ensure, though, that…
Analysis: UK bloggers can no longer be sure on anonymity
Thousands of bloggers churn out opinions daily – secure in the protection afforded to them by the cloak of anonymity. From today they can no longer be secure that their identity can be kept secret, after a landmark ruling by Mr Justice Eady. The judge who has become synonymous with creating a law of privacy…
CFP 2009: Deep Packet Inspection
From the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference June 2009, this panel discussed deep packet inspection.
UK: Tories ‘will end Big Brother state’
The Conservatives have pledged to roll back the “Big Brother” state by curbing Government snooping powers and databases. Shadow security minister Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones said the Tories would review powers used by local authorities and draw back the “database state”. […] In a speech to public sector leaders in London on Tuesday, she will say:…