why is it that our politicians both in the uk and in the rest of europe seem to be so weak that they have allowed themselves to be manipulated by the terrorist threat and vested securocrat interests to weaken our fundamental freedoms and liberties without any noticeable gain in actual security.
privacy international have a new report on the effects of new counterterrorism laws...... [Show More]
... inc and microsoft corp can be defined not so much by the data practices and privacy policies that exist between the two organizations but by the corporate ethos and leadership exhibited by each.
privacyint ernational .org...... [Show More]
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increasingly as google burrows deeper into everyday computing its product announcements are prompting questions about its ability to gather more potentially sensitive personal information from users. a
aadata gathered through most of the companys services disappears into a black hole once it hits the googleplex said simon davies director of londonbased privac...... [Show More]
de duitse minister van binnenlandse zaken keurt het ding af als zijnde onzedelijk onze minister van justitie krijgt er een stijve piep van. de bodyscanner . hartstikke handig om te kijken welke luchtreizigers tien kilo springstoffen om hun middel hebben zitten of een stengun in hun anus of een condoom dragen met wat extras erin.
hirsch ballin begrijpt de bezwaren van zijn collega wo...... [Show More]
for much of the last year the following denso commercial has appeared on japanese tv
in the commercial denso introduces a utopian future where technology has eliminated traffic accidents. the system in development would rely on surveillance cameras placed at nearly every street corner in japan. when the little kid was glasses complains that the system will make it impossible to play hi...... [Show More]
i was recently asked to do a presentation on the topic of effective information management for a local government organisation. part of the presentation covered data security and privacy where i emphasise the the importance of policies and procedures created by people for people. the point being that we already have the technology to ensure data and information remains secure b...... [Show More]
uk privacy campaigners have been sounding the alarm ever since automatic number plate recognition anpr cameras were first introduced into the land of hope and glory. recent revelations by the guardian prove the truth of the old adage just because youre paranoid doesnt mean everyones not out to get you. a national network of roadside cameras will be able to read ...... [Show More]
...s a lot of our fears around privacy are more related to rumour than fact. i think she has a very good point.
2008 survey by privacy international entitled a race to the bottom privacyint ernational .org in which google came last among a selection of large internet companies and was dubbed hostile to privacy8 2218216 source guardian
guardian article on that subject wendy m grossman th... [Show More]
microsoft executive peter cullen describes google as about ten years behind microsoft in terms of privacy for its users. not surprising this time last year it was the same story google was placed at the very bottom of an independent internet service companies privacy survey. however microsoft was only placed one position above the five biggest losers aol facebook google hi5 an...... [Show More]
google street view was launched in may of 2007 and is an attempt by google to give you a street level view of their google maps service.a their special cars drive around shootingtheir images all over the united states and while there have been some people not thrilled with the idea in general theyre being left alone.
when they recently tried to launch in the united kingdom the pr...... [Show More]
rumours are out there that the european commission is about to grant access to the us federal bureau of investigation to access citizens financial transaction records and web surfing histories.
privacy advocacy group privacy international is threatening to sue brusselsbased commission if this goes ahead....... [Show More]
the philippines has one of the poorest privacy safeguards in the world according to the ukbased human rights group privacy international pi in a forum organized last week by the foundation for media alternatives fma .
on a scale of one to five with one as consistently upholding human rights standards and five denoting endemic surveillance the philippines sc...... [Show More]
this months tokyo2point0 event again took place in harajuku and again it featured two great presentations. this time both speakers were japanese
behind the doors of cybozu labs
asiajins very own akky akimoto delivered the first presentation. please note he doesnt want pictures of himself published.
personal background
akky is one of japans most famous tech bloggers. in fact h...... [Show More]
aquest any es cumpliran 10 anys de l entrega dels primers big brother awards uns premis que es donen aquelles agancies estatals entitats privades o persones individuals que han destacat pel seu enfasis en la violacia del dret a la privacitat de la informacia personal.
l entitat organitzadora de totes les edicions es privacy internacional una ong fundada el 1990 amb seu...... [Show More]
klikk pa bildet for fullstarrelse pdf.
privacy international and the uks no2id have launched a campaign to show the dangers of the collection of fingerprints into central government databases. we are offering a reward for the first person to collect and submit the uk prime ministers and home secretarys fingerprints.
godt tiltak. les bakgrunnen for kampanjen he...... [Show More]
when it concerns digital technologies we here in britain are used to be feeling like living in the stone age when compared to the advanced wonders of the far east. miniaturisation and digitalisation entered almost every aspect of their daily life continuing to surprise unprepared westerners. almost every british visitor comes from japan with a regular story about electronically equipped public toi... [Show More]
every yeara privacy international aand partners in a dozen of countries give the orwell awards to institutions companies or persons who promote monitoring and control of people or violate the privacy.
in 2007 special mention to google inc. winner overall
google collects personal data worldwide without respect of the u.e laws filters the search engine for s...... [Show More]
a week or so ago i was transferring to a domestic flight at heathrow. before i could get to the uk border to show my passport i was confronted by a row of desks with cameras and fingerprint readers not unlike us immigration except these read all your fingerprints at once rather than individually.
assuming this was some experiment i politely explained that i didnt wish to participate ...... [Show More]
in montreal canada at the computers freedom and privacy conference in may 2007 privacy international presented the first international big brother awards. the win ners8221 of the big brother awards are in the words of privacy international
the government and private sector organisations which have done the most to threaten personal privacy
national big brother awards have be...... [Show More]
jon bright london ok simon davies of privacy international has a good article on the sadiq khan bugging affair in yesterdays telegraph . in it he points out that the catch all defence of the public interest is always going to override any weak mechanism for checking surveillance in the current frenzied atmosphere of the war on terror. privacy international pr...... [Show More]
maglich durch den heutigen stand der technologie und initiiert durch regierungen nimmt der anteil an aberwachung in der zivilisierten welt immer mehr zu. grande die far aberwachung sprechen sind ebenso nachvollziehbar wie grande dagegen.
im grunde ist im kern gegen eine aberwachung im sinne der kriminalit atsbekam pfung illegale einwanderung und erhahung der allgemeinen sicherheit bei ...... [Show More]
die berwachung der privatspre nimmt international immer mehr zu heit es im aktuellen bericht der brge rrechtsorg anisation privacy international the 2007 international privacy ranking per video audio mit hilfe biometrischer identifika tionssyste me. der bericht konstatiert dass sich der schutz privater informationen weltweit verschlechtert. immer h2...... [Show More]
privacy international ha pubblicato lo scorso 28 dicembre ledizione 2007 della ricerca annuale sullo stato della tutela del diritto alla privacy in vari paesi.
il rapporto prende in esame per ciascun paese una serie di aspetti quali la presenza di tutele legislative e costituzionali le regole le procedure e le garanzie in materia di sorveglianza intercettazioni conservazione dei da...... [Show More]
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