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ISPs Face Data Interception Deadline
News Not only has the Home Office still failed to tell ISPs how they will be compensated for maintaining their interception capabilities, but the measures, which the government said were introduced to combat terrorism and organised crime, only apply to...
[July 10, 2002, 16:03]
European Parliament Restricts Access To Personal Data
News Ministers of the European Parliament were quite disturbed that this sort of interception happens in Europe, and that law enforcement authorities are requiring more powers in intercepting traffic data," said Yaman Akdeniz, director of Cyber-Rights...
[July 12, 2001, 15:54]
UK Comms-snooping Requests Top Half A Million
News The figure was published in the annual report of the interception of communications commissioner Sir Paul Kennedy. Kennedy also reported that the total number of warrants for the interception of communications, such as tapping telephone calls, rose...
[July 24, 2008, 9:23]
UK Police Ask For Traffic Data From ISPs
News Data controllers are not legally obliged to hand over the requested traffic data at this stage, but a court order or the interception powers written into Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) could be enforced if necessary.
[September 17, 2001, 14:02]
Start-up Aims To Improve Internal Security
News Companies such as Vontu and its rival Vericept have built data interception products that monitor email, instant messages, FTP files and other electronic communications on corporate networks, sniffing for leaks of sensitive information.
[January 25, 2005, 8:40]
Privacy Groups Take Efforts To European Level
News At the top of its list of concerns, EDRi placed data retention requirements, telecommunications interception, the Council of Europe cybercrime treaty, Internet rating and filtering, and restrictions on Web-based freedom of speech.
[June 13, 2002, 16:10]
Free Space Optical Transmission Security
White Papers Most of the interception activity by outside intruders occurs within higher protocol software layers. This can be a threat if information is transported over a copper-based infrastructure that can be easily intercepted, but Free-Space Optics (FSO...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Surveillance: Is E-privacy A Human Right?
News The report goes on to suggest that interception as a whole will need to be rethought when the UK introduces the Human Rights Act next year, potentially opening up the government itself to legal action.
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
RIPA Demands Push Up ISP Costs
News To ensure the interception of all communications and related traffic data authorised by the warrant and their simultaneous transmission to the law enforcement agency in question; From 1st August, ISPs and telcos will be obliged to maintain certain...
[July 9, 2002, 15:41]
Phorm Attacks Critics Over 'illegality' Claims
News Phorm — whose Webwise and Open Internet Exchange (OIX) technologies were 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 Phorm's technologies constituted...
[April 10, 2008, 12:30]
Extent Of Government Eavesdropping Revealed
News The report reveals 24 interception errors were reported in the last nine months of 2006, where data from the wrong person was intercepted. In the report, which covers the period from 11 April, 2006 to 31 December, 2006, Sir Paul Kennedy, the...
[January 31, 2008, 11:14]
FBI Releases First Carnivore Data
News Other documents include a discussion of interception of voice-over-IP data and reviews of recovery from attacks and crashes for both systems. There is one document that talks very generally about voice-over-IP interception," said Banisar.
[October 4, 2000, 8:53]
Gov't Big Brother Plans Draw Fire From ISPA
News The Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) has joined the ranks of those criticising the government's proposed update to the Interception of Communications Act (IOCA). If ISPs have to provide interception capability on every new technology...
[September 8, 1999, 15:20]
Covert Staff Surveillance 'illegal'
News Interception is allowed where the parties to the call, email or other communication have both consented to the interception or where the interception is of communications taking place in the course of the carrying on of the employer's business.
[April 9, 2002, 14:28]
Echelon: Europe Quietly Strengthens Surveillance
News ZDNet has had access to the preliminary documents of this device: Intelligent Networks (IN); Lawful Interception. While networks such as Echelon, or its French equivalent, rely on stealth or even secrecy, this system is applied with a certain...
[June 29, 2000, 11:10]
Email Snooping Code Suffers 'unnecessary' Delays
News This rule refers to Section 1(3) of the controversial RIPA, which addresses the lawful interception of communications by employers. However, in the draft Code of Practice the Commissioner, Elizabeth France, advises that outside callers and email...
[May 2, 2001, 13:22]
Email Interception Law Faces More Delays
News The technical advisory board, which is supposed to help iron out the technical issues surrounding the interception of all emails and Web traffic in the UK, has not yet been formed. Until the technical board is formed and has time to figure out how...
[March 1, 2002, 14:48]
Government Backtracks On Encryption Enquiry
News Parts I and III of RIPA have been particularly controversial because they address the interception of communications, and government access to encryption keys respectively. Sections 12 and 13 concerning the interception of communications by...
[April 4, 2001, 6:25]
Industry Lambasts Snooping Law Costs
News The draft code of practice governs how law enforcement agencies should go about authorising warrants under Part I of the Act, which requires communications providers to maintain a permanent interception capability.
[April 30, 2002, 17:55]
Big Brother Awards Highlight Digital Privacy Threats
News Interception of communications was high on the agenda at the event, which has hosted by comic and investigative journalist Mark Thomas, and Simon Davies of Privacy International. One of biggest threats to privacy is the interception of any type of...
[March 5, 2002, 12:12]
