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E-bill reverses burden of proof, says expert
News Newly appointed e-Minister Patricia Hewitt was forced to defend the controversial e-commerce bill Thursday from civil liberties campaigners, who maintain the bill is a threat to basic civil rights. Failure to comply could result in a two year...
[September 23, 1999, 15:44]
re: good intentions
Talkback I understand your point of view and I suppose if you look at what civil liberties have changed over the years i.e.when I was 20 being gay/lesbian, was frowned upon and now it is openly Normal. If The world decends in to chaos what the hell good are...
[August 11, 2008, 13:37]
Americans shrug off copyright concerns
Talkback Your civil liberties are being violated? You accuse me of violating your civil liberties and say that I am filing lawsuits against my customers. The movie and music industries are filing lawsuits against their customers?
[August 22, 2003, 15:03]
Brief filed to reveal identity of Netizen
News Two civil liberties groups have struck the latest blows in the battle over the rights of users to post anonymous messages on the Web. The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Privacy Information Centre sided with the user, known as...
[October 17, 2000, 15:53]
'DMCA on steroids' heads for Euro Parliament
News A proposed European Union law strengthening law-enforcement capabilities against intellectual-property violations is set for a crucial vote next week, amid criticism from civil liberties groups that it would allow companies to use draconian...
[February 19, 2004, 20:39]
EU delays vote on 'Euro-DMCA'
News A UK civil liberties group says it believes the law could even backfire on some large high-tech companies, such as Microsoft and eBay, by opening the companies up to more serious legal attacks. Civil liberties threat?
[September 11, 2003, 17:20]
EU anti-piracy directive heads for final vote
News A proposed European Union law strengthening enforcement capabilities against intellectual-property violations has been approved by the European Parliament's judicial affairs committee (JURI), paving the way for a fast-track vote next month...
[February 26, 2004, 11:05]
Sniffer dog avoidance: A wireless app with bite
News The site, which is operated by NSW Council for Civil Liberties and Redfern Legal Centre, sends registered members SMS messages to warn them where police are patrolling drug detection dogs. When asked if the site operators had bowed to pressure from...
[June 12, 2002, 10:54]
Q&A: Australia's 'Luddite' IT minister
News I think the Council of Civil Liberties in the US came out and said we were village idiots. Civil liberties advocates such as Electronic Frontiers Australia have particularly criticised a law designed to regulate Internet content, which led to the...
[November 29, 2002, 10:19]
Surveillance: Privacy versus policework - the debate
News In the other, Nicholas Bohm, lawyer and e-commerce adviser to civil liberties group Cyber Rights & Cyber Liberties. The law enforcer and the civil libertarian fight it out as ZDNet plays referee in the privacy versus police debate.
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
Face recognition 'fails to catch criminals'
News The system, which scanned faces in a crowd and compared them to photographs of criminals in a database, had come under fire by privacy and civil liberties advocates since its installation two years ago.
[August 22, 2003, 10:20]
Digital copyright law on trial
News N2H2 has asked a Massachusetts judge to dismiss the case, which the American Civil Liberties Union brought in July to let Edelman create and distribute a utility that decrypts N2H2's secret list of forbidden Web sites.
[October 31, 2002, 8:30]
Snoopers' charter - changes are not enough
News It follows criticism from the British Chamber of Commerce, the Institute of Directors and numerous political, industry and civil liberties voices. Among the changes the government has proposed for RIP is a removal of the clause which civil...
[June 28, 2000, 16:22]
Livingstone and Blair scoop Big Brother awards
News The controversial congestion charge aims to reduce traffic in London and encourage more people to use public transport but privacy groups claim the intrusion of surveillance technology, which monitors drivers entering the charge zone in central...
[March 25, 2003, 15:46]
Super-Asbos planned for cybercriminals
Talkback If spammers and fraudsters are left to continue to get away wth their illegal activities then I see no reason why their civil liberties (to use the internet etc) shouldn't be removed. They have not respected others, so they should punished...
[July 18, 2006, 14:32]
Surveillance: Government plans e-surveillance - Part 2
News It is not the state's job to intervene in this," says Simon Davies, head of civil liberties group Privacy International . But in its wake comes a system industry observers feel is even more damaging to civil liberties.
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog That's before the civil liberties issues they create. The civil liberties issues have been solved, says Blunkett, and events such as the Madrid bombings show the importance of getting them off the ground at once.
[April 8, 2004, 17:00]
Surveillance: A special report
News The government and police say access to communications is necessary in the fight against crime and terrorism, privacy groups claim it is a breach of civil liberties. Home Secretary Jack Straw will get a wake-up call on the e-communications bill...
[September 30, 1999, 16:49]
Employers can read your email from today
News The government claimed it required more consultation but civil liberties experts believe it was revised in order to avoid clashes with the Human Rights Act which was also published at the beginning of the month.
[October 24, 2000, 11:45]
MEP: Media industry must not infiltrate data retention laws
News This was rejected by the European Parliament's civil liberties committee, which approved the directive as it stood, without the proposed changes, and sent it onto the full Baroness Ludford, who is a member of the civil liberties committee, is...
[November 29, 2005, 13:25]
