Experts have lambasted new laws to collect information about prepaid cellphone users, citing their “severe” privacy implications. One academic described existing rules that forced operators to retain personal call data for a minimum of three years as “excessive”. And as of last Wednesday the government will collect more data. Operators now have to obtain the…
Spy chief’s family details on Facebook
The Daily Mail reports that personal and family details of Sir John Sawers, the new head of MI6, were exposed after his wife published intimate photographs and family details on her Facebook page. According to the paper, “Amazingly, she had put virtually no privacy protection on her account, making it visible to any of the…
Judge orders release of public pension data
California’s leading taxpayers’ rights group says the public scored a major legal victory this week when a judge ruled that a county’s pension records are not entirely confidential. The judge ruled that the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility, a public pension watchdog group, are entitled to a list of names…
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Wired magazine’s Nicholas Thompson discusses the many concerns regarding China’s Web filtering computer plan: Embedded video from CNN Video