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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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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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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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Privacy international identifies major security flaw in Google’s global phone tracking system - 5 février 2009
One day after the global launch of Google’s "Latitude" phone tracking system, Privacy International has identified what appears to be a fundamental design problem that could substantially endanger user privacy.
After studying the system documentation, PI has determined that the Google system lacks adequate (...)
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The 2007 International Privacy Ranking - 31 décembre 2007
Each year since 1997, the US-based Electronic Privacy Information Center and the UK-based Privacy International have undertaken what has now become the most comprehensive survey of global privacy ever published. The Privacy & Human Rights Report surveys developments in 70 countries, assessing the state of (...)
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Pulling a Swift one ? Bank transfer information sent to U.S. authorities - 22 juin 2006
On June 22-23 2006 the New York Times ran a story uncovering an international financial surveillance programme run by the Bush Administration. In essence the Bush Administration is getting access to international transfer data and storing this in databases at the Treasury Department and/or CIA for access to (...)
