Chris Patten: Politicians Have No Grasp Of Technology
News Prime ministers and home secretaries are notorious for grandstanding on technology issues, while at the same time having difficulty setting their video recorders at home," said Davies. Privacy campaigner Simon Davies, chairman of No2ID, agreed...
[October 26, 2006, 16:40]
Celebrity Web Site Under Fire For Privacy Breaches
News The whole Web site is a disaster for privacy," says Simon Davies director of Privacy International. Davies argues that there nevertheless remains a danger to making this information available and says it is not enough to offer an opt-out service...
[February 9, 2001, 14:39]
Europe Stumbles On Echelon Spy Network
News The real issue is the maturing of public perception," says Simon Davies, director of UK-based Privacy International. In the UK the story was picked up by The Daily Telegraph, which ran an article by Davies on Wright's paper, and conveyed to the...
[March 28, 2002, 17:40]
Opposition Grows In ID Card Debate
News Simon Davies, Privacy International's director, believes that support for the introduction of an entitlement card was dropping late on Tuesday at a rate of 1 percent per hour, and estimates that at least 10,000 negative responses will have been...
[January 15, 2003, 16:36]
Camera Phone Clampdown Demanded
News The ability to covertly capture images and then instantly transmit those images removes any safeguard for the victim," warned Simon Davies, PI director. It is a call to make the technology safe," Davies added.
[November 16, 2004, 15:10]
Tories Join ID Card Opponents
News Taking part in a public meeting on the proposed national ID card held at the London School of Economics, David Davies called for a much more disciplined approach to government databases. David Cameron MP added that when officials came with...
[May 20, 2004, 12:10]
Hauser To Keynote London Online Conference
News Other speakers will include AOL International president Jack Davies and David Bohnett, founder and CEO of Geocities. The conference will be an overview of what's happening in the European online world.
[October 10, 1997, 9:59]
Jack Straw Tipped For Top Cybersnoop Award
News According to Simon Davies, head of Privacy International (the organisers of the awards show), Jack Straw's nomination in the lifetime achievement category reflects the draconian nature of the RIP Act.
[November 30, 2000, 9:02]
Government Joins Push For IT Professionalism
News Whitehall figures such as Bob Assirati, executive director of the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), and Katie Davies from the Cabinet Office's IT team are on a steering group for the programme. BCS chief executive David Clarke said that the BCS...
[May 11, 2005, 16:30]
Sun Goes On The Software Offensive
News Speaking at this week's SunNetwork 03 conference in San Francisco, in typical bullish mood, trademark white teeth on display to the home crowd of Sun groupies, McNealy kicked off the three-day event by aping the controversial campaign to recall...
[September 18, 2003, 16:50]
Jack Straw Wins Coveted Menace Award
News Now it could be argued that Britain is one of the foremost surveillance countries in the world and you can trace that violation straight back to Jack Straw," said Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, co-host of the event.
[December 5, 2000, 11:53]
Big Brother Awards Nominees Plumb New Depths
News Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, the founding organisation, said that during the judging process, it became clear that government agencies and companies have "stooped to an all-time low" in the willful violation of privacy.
[February 25, 2002, 11:13]
Friaco Not To Blame For Broadband Fiasco, Says AOL
News Flat-rate is not available across Europe, and £14.99 is a good deal," said John Davies, chief operations officer for BT Wholesale. Schema chairman David Brown blamed the UK's slow roll-out on telco delays, which he pointed out were in BT's interest...
[December 5, 2001, 9:43]
Big Brother Turns Its Eye To Gmail
Talkback Simon Davies is right to challenge this. That all said, with Home Secretary David 'Big' Blunkett still pushing his authoritarian utopias (ID card, population database, biometrics, dismantling of trial by jury, on-the-spot fines etc) I think GMail...
[June 22, 2004, 12:37]
Update: America Uses Echelon To Spy On Britain
News Davies adds that by co-operating with the US, Britain could be in breach of treaty agreement and open to prosecution by its European neighbours. Head of Privacy International and visiting lecturer at the LSE (London School of Economic) Simon Davies...
[July 3, 2000, 13:10]
