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Thoughts on Google’s Policy changes - 1er mars 2012
Last month, within thirty seconds of the BBC publishing a quotation from me on the latest round of the nymwars and Google+, my phone rang. Caller ID indicated that it was someone I know who works at Google. "Had I said something wrong ?" was my first thought. I quickly retraced in my mind what it was that I had (...)
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What does Twitter know about its users ? #NOLOGS - 16 février 2012
Inspired by the Europe v. Facebook campaign and further motivated by revelations that individuals associated with WikiLeaks and the #occupy movements in Boston and New York have had their Twitter data disclosed to American law enforcement authorities, Privacy International is launching a campaign to encourage (...)
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Tracking Protection comes of age - 3 février 2012
It used to be that visiting a website was simple. You instructed your computer to shake hands with an external site, which then sent its content to your machine.
But in recent years a vast marketing industry has emerged that has the sole purpose of making profits by tracking what you look at on the Internet. This (...)
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How Facebook’s targeted advertising destroyed the life of a young man - 10 janvier 2012
This is a story about how the world’s biggest social networking site - in the single-minded pursuit of profit - conspired with the marketing industry to unwittingly risk the safety of a vulnerable young person. It raises some uncomfortable questions about how large corporations gamble with the lives and reputations (...)
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2011 : the year in review - 27 décembre 2011
2011 has been an odd sort of year for privacy. There have been some deeply worrying trends around the globe and yet in some respects a gentle corner might have been turned. Amidst the litany of horror stories there may be better times ahead for some aspects of privacy protection. This year saw greater consistency (...)
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Indian Parliamentary Committee Trashes UID Bill - 9 décembre 2011
Last evening (in India, that is) we got some very good news. Earlier, an online news item in a major newsmagazine described a forthcoming report from the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, a cross-party body created to study Bills being presented for consideration in Parliament, as having expressed its (...)
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A quick review of the draft EU Data Protection Regulation - 8 décembre 2011
A widely-leaked version of the first legislative proposal for a General Data Protection Regulation is making its way through Brussels and beyond. The purpose of this ’Regulation’ is to provide a new tool for harmonising the protection of personal data across the European Union, and one that takes into consideration (...)
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Surveillance debunked : A guide to the jargon - 4 décembre 2011
Many of the technologies and ideas contained in the Spy Files are obscure and unfamiliar. Privacy International has compiled this glossary, in which experts explain what these technologies are, how they work, and the implications they carry for privacy and civil liberties.
Digital forensics
Deep packet (...)
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Une journée sous surveillance - 4 décembre 2011
Vivre une journée au milieu des nouvelles technologies de surveillance, un marché mondial de cinq milliards de dollars. Les fabricants redoublent d’inventivité. A partir des plaquettes et documents internes rendus publics jeudi par WikiLeaks, OWNI plonge dans une journée sous surveillance. Une fiction réaliste dressant (...)
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CarrierIQ - Still many questions to be answered - 2 décembre 2011
Over the past couple of weeks a story has been growing in severity about mobile phone diagnostics developer, CarrierIQ. I am not going to post links to all the stories (there are many) because the chances are if you are reading this blog you are already aware of who CarrierIQ are and what their technology does. (...)
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The State of Surveillance : The Data - 1er décembre 2011
The Bureau and London-based human rights group Privacy International have compiled a comprehensive database of companies that sell surveillance products.
Using the interface below, you can search by company, or by the country the company is headquartered in : for instance, you could search for the company "˜AGT’ (...)
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Privacy International accuses British government of giving UK companies "carte blanche" to sell dangerous surveillance tech to Iran - 21 novembre 2011
Privacy International’s Director-General Simon Davies has today written to Prime Minister David Cameron and Creativity Software CEO Richard Lee following revelations that Kingston-based Creativity sold a location-tracking system to Iran.
Mr Davies expressed his disappointment that the Coalition has taken no steps (...)
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Microsoft Streetside veut donner une leçon de vie privée à Google - 13 avril 2011
Alors que Google connaît quelques difficultés en Europe avec son service de navigation virtuelle, Microsoft lance Streetside, un service concurrent. Toutefois, le géant américain des logiciels ne veut pas répéter les mêmes erreurs que son rival. Microsoft annonce travailler en étroite collaboration avec les organisations (...)
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CPS under attack over BT and Phorm’s covert online monitoring - 12 avril 2011
Privacy watchdogs fear big corporations can violate UK internet users’ rights with impunity
Privacy groups have attacked the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) after it decided not to prosecute BT and Phorm for secretly tracking the online habits of 18,000 internet users.
BT and Phorm sparked a privacy backlash in (...)
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Nominet talks about domain suspensions - 8 avril 2011
Nominet’s discussions about domain suspensions started yesterday. Over 3,000 sites have so far been "˜suspended’ at the request of the Police. This has been taking place without any formal procedure, although an appeals mechanism has handled 12 complaints, of which 9 were upheld.
Yesterday’s meeting, which included (...)
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Skype security weaknesses could endanger ’vulnerable users’ - 16 mars 2011
Users of free internet phone service ’exposed to interception, impersonation and surveillance’, warns Privacy International
The free messaging and internet phone service Skype carries a number of worrying security concerns which could put users living in oppressive regimes in danger, says the advocacy group Privacy (...)
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Governments ’not ready’ for new European privacy law - 9 mars 2011
European rules aimed at giving consumers more control over how their web browsing is tracked will not be enforced come May, experts have said.
No European government has yet drawn up the guidelines for how the ePrivacy directive will be enforced.
It states that websites must seek consent from users before using (...)
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Google Street View sous la loupe de Sherlock Holmes - 26 juin 2010
Suite à la plainte de l’ONG Privacy International, la Metropolitan Police a aussi ouvert une enquête sur la collecte des données personnelles issues des réseaux wifi par les Google Cars.
2318672/10. C’est le numéro attribué par les services de la police londonienne (Metropolitan Police Service) à l’affaire Google Street (...)
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Collecte de données : vers des poursuites contre Google - 11 juin 2010
Selon l’ONG Privacy International, l’audit indépendant publié par Google confirmerait une véritable « intention » dans la collecte des données sur les réseaux WiFi ouverts. Des poursuites pourraient être engagées dans les pays concernés, à commencer par l’Allemagne.
Google est « presque certain » de faire l’objet de (...)
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Royaume-Uni : les cyber-cafetiers se feront-ils espions ? - 27 mars 2010
Dans l’une de ses dernières dépêches, l’Associated Press rapporte que la police de Scotland Yard souhaite apporter plus de contrôle sur les pratiques des internautes se rendant dans les cyber-cafés. Cette initiative viendrait directement de la stratégie anti-terrorisme mise en place par le gouvernement britannique.
Si (...)
