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New BCS chief pledges to embrace social networking

...a number of bodies including the UK Parliamentary IT Committee and the Foundation for Information Policy Research. Norton is a visiting professor in electronic engineering... Read more

18 March, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Government keeps web-monitoring plan alive

The coalition intends to pursue plans to track web-communications data and hand it over to security agencies, despite pre-election promises to cut back on surveillance Read more

21 October, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Zimmerman joins UK think tank

...computer users to email encryption -- has joined the advisory council of the Foundation for Information Policy Research. Zimmermann was at the forefront of the battle... Read more

16 September, 2002 by Matt Loney

IT think tank opens doors to supporters

IT think tank the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) is launching an effort to draw more... Read more

27 March, 2002 by Matt Loney

Phorm attacks critics over 'illegality' claims

...used by BT in a secret trial on its customers — says the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) is wrong to say the use of... Read more

10 April, 2008 by David Meyer

News Burst: Jam echelon day "pointless" - think tank

The UK's most prominent Internet think-tank, The foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR), has branded a plan to overload an... Read more

12 October, 1999 by Will Knight

Making IP infringement a crime

...This definition could include file sharers, according to Ian Brown from the Foundation for Information Policy Research in an earlier interview. "You could argue that... Read more

1 August, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

TalkTalk drops Phorm

...web-browsing behaviour, for approximately 18 months. Both privacy campaigners and the Foundation for Information Policy Research have alleged that the Phorm service contravenes UK... Read more

9 July, 2009 by Tom Espiner

Number 10 will not investigate Phorm

...have no statutory role in relation to Ripa." Various organisations, including the Foundation for Information Policy Research, have asserted that Phorm's interception of user... Read more

20 May, 2009 by Tom Espiner

Gov't committee launches ISP regulation inquiry

...which has been accused of infringing user privacy by organisations including the Foundation for Information Policy Research, said it welcomed the inquiry. "We look forward... Read more

23 April, 2009 by Tom Espiner

Home Office denies prototype intercept database

...be a centralised database to store this information. Security experts from the Foundation for Information Policy Research understand that a prototype database has been built... Read more

7 April, 2009

IBM, CSC win ID card biometrics contracts

...cards and the National Identity Register remains strong. A report by the Foundation for Information Policy Research, published in March, concluded that the National Identity... Read more

7 April, 2009 by Tom Espiner

Rights group attacks 'database state'

...Group (ORG). Following the release on Monday of a report by the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) entitled 'Database State', which said that 11... Read more

23 March, 2009

Report: Some gov't databases almost certainly illegal

...government databases and concluded that some of them could be illegal. The Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR), an independent technology think tank, published a... Read more

23 March, 2009 by Tom Espiner
Berners-Lee says no to internet 'snooping'

Berners-Lee says no to internet 'snooping'

...hasn't," Berners-Lee said. Nicholas Bohm, the general counsel for the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR), said the UK government may not have... Read more

11 March, 2009 by Tom Espiner

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