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:…
Jim Harper presentation on security and privacy
Jim Harper speaks at the meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery. The presentation was televised on C-Span:
Tagged e-mails grab your address book
As a child, the main point of playing tag was to avoid being tagged. Many people are learning lately that the same thing applies to Tagged.com, a social networking Web site that has made the experience of being tagged anything but fun. The site has been around since 2004 and boasts 70 million members to…