Communications Data Bill - UK
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British Snoops GCHQ Openly Recruiting Hackers As Government Seeks More Surveillance Powers - 13 mai 2015
Now that the Conservative Party has secured a majority government in the UK, it’s pushing ahead with plans to expand the surveillance state with the Communications Data Bill, also known as Snooper’s Charter, which would require communications providers from BT to Facebook to maintain records of customers’ internet (...)
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Le Royaume-Uni va renforcer sa surveillance du Web - 13 mai 2015
Le premier ministre britannique David Cameron doit présenter, ce mercredi 13 mai, un nouveau projet de loi de lutte contre le terrorisme, qui inclura un renforcement des mesures de contrôle et de surveillance du Web. Fort de sa majorité absolue obtenue début mai lors des élections législatives, le gouvernement (...)
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L’ère des mercenaires numériques - 16 juin 2013
"Mon ordinateur avait été arrêté avant moi" . C’est le constat lucide d’un activiste syrien arrêté et torturé par le régime de Bachar al-Assad. Pris dans les filets de la surveillance en ligne, Karim Taymour explique à un journaliste de Bloomberg [1] s’être vu présenter lors de son interrogatoire une pile de plus de 1000 (...)
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The "Snoopers’ Charter" is dead... - 29 avril 2013
The current iteration of the UK’s "Communications Data Bill" is now dead.
Privacy International has been working closely with others behind the scenes to work on understanding what little case there was, and fundamentally demolishing it.
The UK Government is now examining a "middle way" for the legitimate law (...)
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Rapport spécial sur la surveillance, avec un focus sur 5 pays et 5 entreprises "Ennemis d’Internet" - 12 mars 2013
A l’occasion du 12 Mars, Journée mondiale contre la cyber-censure, Reporters sans frontières publie un Rapport spécial sur la surveillance, disponible sur surveillance.rsf.org. Grâce aux technologies d’intrusion informatique et d’interception de communications, les Etats procèdent à un nombre grandissant d’arrestations de (...)
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Data bill : what’s the right balance between security and liberty online ? - 12 décembre 2012
The communications data bill is causing friction in the coalition. What powers should the government have to track internet use ?
Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has told Theresa May, the home secretary, that she needs to "go back to the drawing board" on the "snooper’s charter".
It’s particularly blunt language (...)
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Act now to stop this pernicious spying by the state - 18 septembre 2012
Next weekend, the Liberal Democrats will gather for their conference. Here, in an open letter, John Naughton writes to delegates about the dangers lurking in the Communications Data bill
I am not a member of your party (or of any other, for that matter) but I have voted for you in the last three elections. Why ? (...)
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This spying bill is against privacy and democracy. And it won’t work - 9 septembre 2012
Should the Communications Data Bill become law, it will be an intervention too far from the surveillance state
A nice coincidence last Tuesday. As the joint select committee of peers and MPs met to hear evidence on the draft Communications Data Bill, which will give police and intelligence services the power to (...)
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The privacy of our medical records is being sold off - 3 septembre 2012
A new code claims to ringfence personal data held by hospitals and GPs. But it’s clear that our anonymity is at risk
In December last year, David Cameron announced that it was "simply a waste" to have a health service like the NHS and not use the data it generated. "Let me be clear, this does not threaten (...)
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How Your Phone Can Spy on You - 2 septembre 2012
A glimpse at the future of mobile security came to light recently in London, at the Vodafone Annual General Meeting (AGM) "“ though most people do not yet understood the significance of what transpired. This meeting may have lacked the overt drama of the Olympics, but it revealed nonetheless the attitude towards (...)
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This is not surveillance as we know it : the anatomy of Facebook messages - 23 août 2012
Modern communications surveillance policy is about gaining access to modern communications. The problem is that the discourse around communications policy today is almost the same as it was when it was simply a question of gaining access to telephone communications. "Police need access to social network activity (...)
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Communications Data Bill creates ’a virtual giant database’ - 19 juillet 2012
The government’s Communications Data Bill will effectively create a giant database of everyone in the UK’s web activities, MPs and peers have heard.
The bill would force telecoms companies to store details of internet use for a year to help combat crime.
Home Secretary Theresa May has stressed that the data will (...)
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Human rights issues with the draft Communications Data Bill - 18 juillet 2012
This report was submitted to the Joint Committee on Human Rights. Under the current version of the draft Communications Data Bill, records of every person or entity with whom any given individual has communicated electronically would be collected continuously and stored for one year. These records would include (...)
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Civil servant admits British police grabbing location data of thousands of innocent people - 15 juillet 2012
In the first public admission of its kind, the Home Office’s Peter Hill admitted this week that the British government routinely sweeps up the identities of thousands of people in a given area - with a single request to a mobile phone network.
The statement was made during the first hearing of the Joint Committee (...)
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Don’t let the state search my internet searches - 16 juin 2012
The Communications Data Bill is an unnecessary government intrusion into personal privacy - and won’t stop paedophiles, as the Home Secretary Theresa May claims
You generally know that an argument for state scrutiny is in difficulties when its supporters start wheeling out the statement that it will "stop (...)
