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Microsoft's Machiavellian manoeuvring
Talkback The TCG should be required to include OO for straightforward civil liberty reasons. A simple fix, requiring owner override capability, would preserve the advantages of the TPM, yet prevent corporations thieving our civil liberty.http://www...
[September 1, 2005, 16:48]
Straw blames 'naive' libertarians for weak encryption laws
News The former Home Secretary Jack Straw has attacked what he calls "naive" civil liberty groups for opposing Internet snooping laws which could, he believes, have prevented the horrendous terrorist attacks on the US last month.
[October 2, 2001, 17:40]
Government plans may endanger Net privacy
News While the recently published e-commerce bill has grabbed the headlines, privacy on the Net is far more threatened by plans to update to the Interception of Communications Act (IOCA) according to civil liberty groups and Internet experts.
[August 31, 1999, 15:41]
Safeguards urged for 'life events database'
News Civil rights group Liberty said that such databases will inevitably cause privacy concerns, and create the risk of mistakes being made in handling citizens' private information, but argued it is futile to stop the government from creating them.
[October 30, 2003, 13:10]
Jane Wakefield: Is it 1984, or just Lord of the Flies?
News Playing up her credentials as ex-director of the civil rights organisation Liberty, she attempted to reassure everyone that she understood the issues and was still a bit of a leftie deep down. The only concession I can see her making to Liberty now...
[September 27, 1999, 13:58]
McKinnon suffered breakdown, says hacker's mother
Blog The protest outside the US embassy on Thursday, which was organised by civil liberties group Liberty, was designed to draw attention to the extradition treaty the UK has with the US. The intervention of Liberty's sister, the American Civil...
[August 28, 2009, 17:59]
French kill anti-privacy law
News Civil liberty experts and Internet interest groups in France have scuppered a law that would have endangered online privacy for French citizens. The "Liberty of Communications" Act was amended to remove aspects that would have abolished anonymity...
[July 5, 2000, 16:15]
Jack Straw tipped for top cybersnoop award
News Home secretary Jack Straw is hotly tipped to receive a "Big Brother" award from civil liberty groups following his introduction of Internet snooping regulations in the UK this year. While the government claims that the Act simply extends police...
[November 30, 2000, 9:02]
Civil liberties groups attack file-sharing bill
Blog Liberty said in a position paper on Tuesday that the bill, part of which proposes to cut internet access to persistent unlawful filesharers, could contravene human rights legislation. The Liberty position paper was published to coincide with this...
[December 3, 2009, 17:13]
Tories plan to block Internet snooping Bill
News Encryption experts and civil liberty campaigners claim this reverses the burden of proof and is likely to result in abuses of individual liberty and privacy. Civil liberty group Stand recently launched an initiative to encourage Internet users to...
[March 9, 2000, 9:01]
Mobile phones re-emerge as homing devices
Talkback What about the civil liberty issues? Do you really want phone operatorsw and the government to know you exact location at all times. Why not make sure the phones only broadcast your position when you make a 999 emergancy call?
[June 6, 2004, 15:12]
News Burst: Employers can read your email from today
News From Tuesday, new regulations give employers the power to eavesdrop on the email communications of their staff, a legal shift that has been welcomed by businesses but condemned as a breach of the right to privacy by civil liberty groups.
[October 24, 2000, 9:03]
Employers can read your email from today
News From Tuesday, new regulations give employers the power to eavesdrop on the email communications of their staff, a legal shift that has been welcomed by businesses, but condemned as a breach of the right to privacy by civil liberty groups.
[October 24, 2000, 11:45]
Demon case -- ripples felt
News ISPs and civil liberty experts point out that the freedom of the Net is endangered by both the outcome and Justice Moreland's declaration that ISPs informed of defamatory material should be held responsible for content posted on their servers.
[April 11, 2000, 9:33]
Super-Asbos planned for cybercriminals
Talkback I think the issue of Civil Liberty infringement is being way over-played. 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...
[July 18, 2006, 14:32]
BSI security code prompts criticism about key escrow
News This will no doubt reassure companies concerned about the legal implications of encryption, but civil liberty campaigners remain unimpressed. Stefan Magdalinski, of Stand.org, said: "The imposition of Public Key Escrow schemes is both damaging to...
[July 21, 1999, 14:39]
Outrage at government 'tagging' of citizens
News We have no plans to involve civil liberty groups or industry in the management of the unit," says a spokeswoman. Civil liberties advocates are outraged at the implications for law abiding citizens. To civil libertarians and technical experts the...
[August 1, 2000, 12:10]
Face recognition 'fails to catch criminals'
News Barry Steinhardt, director of the technology and liberty program at the American Civil Liberties Union, said there has never been an instance of a facial-recognition system discovering a wanted criminal in the field in the United States.
[August 22, 2003, 10:20]
Anonymous email could be abolished
News Malcom Hutty of Internet civil liberty group Stand.org.uk says that abolishing anonymity and a potentially dangerous invasion of privacy. The need to fight child pornography and organised crime on the Internet has often been used by the government...
[April 10, 2000, 14:31]
Report undermines RIP
News Other experts say that Internet surveillance systems such as that under RIP, or the Carnivore system in the States, threaten civil liberty and are open to abuse. Founder of US security company Counterpane and author of Applied Cryptography Bruce...
[July 25, 2000, 15:46]
