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18 March 2012
Drone Attack: How We Might Willingly Embrace The Surveillance Society
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It's striking how drones have passed from a mysterious weapon used to wreak destruction in distant lands to something that could well ...
15 March 2012
Spotify Finally Launches In Germany -- And Immediately Hits Data Protection Problems
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The music streaming service Spotify has adopted a rather unusual pattern of launches around the world. Founded in Sweden, it spread grad...
25 January 2012
Adding Your DNA To A Biobank Is A Noble Move -- But Is It A Wise One?
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One new approach to teasing apart the complex relationships between genes and common diseases such as cancer, heart disease, asthma and d...
17 January 2012
Argentina Building Huge Biometric Database For Use With Police's Face Recognition Technology
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One of the more unfortunate consequences of Moore's Law is that technologies that erode privacy are becoming cheaper every year – and ...
08 December 2011
Who Owns The Data Collected About You From Devices Inside Your Body?
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People have started to wake up to the fact that companies like Google and Facebook hold huge quantities of data about their users. That r...
24 November 2011
SABAM: A Turning Point in EU Internet Law?
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One of the most striking - and disturbing - trends of recent years has been the assumption by the copyright industries that protecting th...
05 November 2011
Phorm Still Looking For A Large-Scale Deployment, Still Finding Investors
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As a search through the Techdirt archives shows, Phorm's behavioral advertising service based on watching your Web activity was bese...
12 October 2011
Facebook Says Some of Your Personal Data Is Its 'Trade Secrets or Intellectual Property'
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A few weeks back, Techdirt posted a story about a European campaign group called "Europe vs. Facebook" , which is trying to find...
05 September 2011
Europeans Care About Civil Liberties: US Shocked
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The leaked US cables will clearly provide a rich vein to be mined for many months to come. I don't really have the time to go digging d...
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27 January 2011
HMRC's Latest IT Fail - and What to Do About It
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On Monday, I called the HMRC to give them some information they wanted from me. After being placed on hold for about 10 minutes, I finally g...
25 February 2010
The End of Anonymity
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One of the (few) advantages I enjoy over Bill Gates is that I can walk down the street without people recognising me. Not for much longer:...
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19 August 2009
Cor! - UK Pirate Party's Smart Move
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The UK Pirate Party has published its " core beliefs ": 1. The reform of Copyright and Patent Laws 2. The protection of our Right ...
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31 July 2009
Why Single Sign On Systems Are Bad
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Wow, here's a really great article about identity management from, um, er, Microsoft. Actually, it's a rather remarkable Microsoft...
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05 June 2009
Open Source Sensing Initiative
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Here's another interesting initiative: open source sensing . Pervasive sensing is arriving soon — we have a short window of opportunity ...
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29 April 2009
Foolish Phorm
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Earlier this year, I had some problems with a statement from the Open Solution Alliance's Anthony Gold. Here are my comments from the ti...
19 March 2009
German Court Says Data Retention is "Invalid"
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As part of a global conspiracy of Glyns, Glyn Wintle has kindly pointed me to this very interesting decision from those fun-loving German j...
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17 March 2009
EU Telecoms Promote "Legitimate" Content
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Interesting initiative from the European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association (ETNO): ETNO is launching a new online conte...
13 November 2008
Not so FAST....
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FAST is seriously losing it : More worrying is how organizations like FAST feel that somehow they should be able to shortcut, bypass or chan...
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23 July 2008
W(h)ither the UK Database Nation?
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Interesting : The court’s view was that health care staff who are not involved in the care of a patient must be unable to access that patien...
30 June 2008
Do As I Say, Not As I Do
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I've noted several times on this blog the tension between openness and privacy, but reading the excellent Your Right to Know blog - whi...
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