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A year in surveillance - 31 décembre 2020
2020 has been a very turbulent year. This is also true with regards to European surveillance politics, both at the EU level and in national politics. Like most years, it was largely characterised by one central conflict, which in simple terms goes like this : a push for more and more technologically advanced (...)
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Facebook will move UK users to US terms, avoiding EU privacy laws - 16 décembre 2020
Company is reportedly making the change partly because the EU privacy regime is among the world’s strictest
Facebook will shift all its users in the United Kingdom into user agreements with the corporate headquarters in California, moving them out of their current relationship with Facebook’s Irish unit and out of (...)
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Sidestepping disaster, UK’s coronavirus app launches - 22 septembre 2020
In May, we wrote about a new Covid-19 tracking app that the UK government was trialing on the Isle of Wight. The app’s launch has been plagued with problems after the government initially spent $13.5 million building a product earlier in the summer, only to find it didn’t work properly on iPhones.
The UK government (...)
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Black Lives Matter protesters aren’t being tracked with Covid-19 surveillance tech. Not yet - 3 juin 2020
A video posted on Twitter sparked fears that Black Lives Matter protesters could be tracked down using Covid-19 contact-tracing technology. It’s a false alarm on this occasion, but without clear protections in place, the question is ‘when’ not ‘if’ our data is misused.
Like many of the people who watched Minnesota (...)
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(Sort of) Trust but Verify : Palantir Responds to Questions about its work with NHS - 11 mai 2020
Palantir, the US data giant which works with intelligence and immigration enforcement agencies, has responded to our questions about its work on a highly sensitive National Health Service (NHS) project, providing some assurances, passing the buck to the NHS, and raising additional questions.
On 12 April 2020, (...)
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NHS app lacks privacy "due diligence" - 5 mai 2020
Open Rights Group’s lawyers, AWO, have written to Matt Hancock and NHSX to demand immediate confirmation that they will conduct a full and adequate Data Protection Impact Assessment, consult with the ICO and publish the results.
It was confirmed to Parliament on Monday that this risk assessment had not yet been (...)
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Press release : 10 questions to Palantir from privacy organisations | Privacy International - 1er mai 2020
Today Privacy International and four other UK privacy organisations have sent Palantir 10 questions about their work with the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) during the Covid-19 public health crisis.
Key points
Privacy International, Big Brother Watch, medConfidential, Foxglove, and Open Rights Group have sent (...)
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Home Office plans to deny immigrants access to data ’are illegal’ - 5 mars 2018
Digital rights campaigners threaten legal action if data protection bill clause is enacted
Plans to deny millions of people the right to access immigration data held on them by the Home Office are illegal and will be challenged in court, the government has been told.
Organisations representing up to 3 million EU (...)
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Attentat de Londres : le projet d’accroître la surveillance du Web suscite de vives critiques - 5 juin 2017
Au lendemain de l’attentat, Theresa May a accusé les entreprises du numérique de « fournir au terrorisme des espaces sûrs pour se propager ».
Lors de son allocution devant le 10 Downing Street, dimanche 4 juin, au lendemain de l’attentat qui a frappé Londres, la première ministre britannique, Theresa May, a critiqué (...)
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Avec les Big Data et la biométrie, Big Brother s’invite au bureau - 20 février 2017
Vous pensez que les défenseurs des libertés informatiques en font trop ? Ce qui suit vous fera peut-être changer d’avis. De nouveaux outils de surveillance professionnelle entrent en jeu, et ils promettent de vous pister de près.
Les murs ont des oreilles, dit le proverbe... et votre open space, à défaut de cloisons, (...)
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ISPs criticised over deal to filter extremist material online - 15 novembre 2014
Four largest ISPs have agreed to implement a system of blocks similar to that used to keep child abuse material off web
British internet service providers have been accused of rushing into an ill-thought-out attempt to block political material online, after agreeing with the government on a system of filters for (...)
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Surveillance : le Royaume-Uni traîné en justice devant la CEDH - 5 octobre 2013
Une procédure à l’encontre du Royaume-Uni vient d’être déposée auprès de la Cour européenne des droits de l’Homme (CEDH), dont le siège est situé à Strasbourg. L’objectif ? Arriver à faire reconnaître l’illicéité de la surveillance des communications des citoyens britanniques, notamment telle qu’effectuée par les autorités (...)
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BitTorrent Site Admin Hits Out at UK Music Industry Site Blocking Demand - 25 février 2013
Within days the UK music industry will head back to the High Court with demands that the country’s leading Internet service providers should begin blocking three of the world’s largest torrent sites. Today, the owner of one of them describes the action as an attack on file-sharers and questions whether the process (...)
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Privacy groups call for Facebook changes U-turn - 27 novembre 2012
Two US privacy groups have asked Facebook to reconsider proposed changes to its terms of service that they say violate commitments to protect users.
The social network plans to end user voting on its privacy policy, and allow the sharing of information across its services.
Facebook is also planning to get rid of (...)
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Google privacy policy slammed by EU data protection chiefs - 16 octobre 2012
Commissioners say privacy changes effectively breach European law due to ’uncontrolled’ and non-consensual data use
Google’s changes to its privacy policies have been criticised by 30 European data protection commissioners for resulting in ’uncontrolled’ use of personal data without individual’s clear consent, (...)
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YouTube under new pressure over anti-Muslim film - 19 septembre 2012
Saudi Arabia has become the latest state to call on YouTube to block access inside the country to anti-Islamic film Innocence of Muslims.
The government says it will block access to the entire YouTube website if owners Google do not comply.
Google has already rejected a request from the White House to remove the (...)
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Bruce Willis v Apple : who actually ’owns’ the music on an iPod ? - 3 septembre 2012
The movie star has allegedly discovered he can’t pass on his iTunes collection to his children. It’s part of a far bigger issue, as many are discovering
Is Bruce Willis just like the rest of us ? Did he, too, click on "I Agree" without reading the small print when buying music on iTunes ? It has been reported that (...)
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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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Mobile Internet censorship : what’s happening and what we can do about it - 11 juin 2012
This report is about mobile Internet censorship. It looks at the way mobile phone networks filter content for child protection purposes, and finds a number of problems with how these filtering systems work. (We also posted a short blog with more background and introduction)
The report is a joint publication with (...)
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Crazy : Orange censors all blogs, not just GigaOM - 11 juin 2012
Every day millions of British mobile users hit a dead end on their phones, coming across web pages that they are blocked from reading. But it’s not because the sites they’re trying to access are illegal : it’s because they’ve fallen foul of child protection filters.
These filters are used by all of the country’s (...)
