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IT think tank opens doors to supporters
News IT think tank the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) is launching an effort to draw more support from the IT community. Individuals and corporates are being encouraged to sign up as Friends of FIPR in return for a subscription to the...
[March 27, 2002, 11:54]
Thinktank: Phorm a 'green light for lawbreaking'
News The Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) said on Sunday that it hoped the Information Commissioner would "reconsider what appears to be a green light for lawbreaking". Privacy campaigners, including those at the FIPR, have expressed...
[April 7, 2008, 17:04]
NHS patient data 'insecure', says group
News The Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR), a non-profit group, argued that the NHS' patient-data strategy is fundamentally flawed, and is likely to leave personal information increasingly insecure.
[February 5, 2003, 10:44]
Europe heading down DMCA route, warns think tank
News In an analysis of the EU Copyright Directive (EUCD) of 2001, the UK's Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) found that most countries were failing to protect researchers, business competition and consumers in their implementations of...
[September 16, 2003, 15:45]
Safeguards urged for 'life events database'
News However, the database could easily grow to include far more information than necessary for its stated purpose, and in fact has already done so, warns IT policy think tank the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR).
[October 30, 2003, 13:10]
UK file-swappers could face jail under new law
News The EUCD is intended to aid copyright holders in cracking down on counterfeiting and piracy, but organisations such as UK think tank the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) argue that it is likely to tighten the grip of large...
[October 8, 2003, 13:40]
Lords to consider data retention objections
News Earl Northesk is supporting six amendments to the Bill that have been tabled by the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) -- a non-governmental think tank that opposes the retention of communications data for use in minor criminal...
[November 30, 2001, 17:40]
Zimmerman joins UK think tank
News In a statement, the FIPR said Zimmerman will bring "invaluable experience and contacts" to the FIPR. Ian Brown, the director of FIPR, said, "Phil's PGP software and his battle with the US government was my and many others' introduction to the whole...
[September 16, 2002, 10:31]
Copyright directive 'will stifle EU competition'
News The Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR), a British Internet policy think tank, believes the proposition would have serious implications for the battered telecoms industry because ISPs will face "legal harassment, equipment seizures...
[August 5, 2003, 16:35]
Protesters target anti-piracy directive
News The law would also allow large companies to use draconian legal measures to threaten and harass smaller competitors, for example, by raiding their premises, seizing evidence and freezing bank accounts in highly technical patent infringement cases...
[March 8, 2004, 10:40]
Police want power to seize encryption keys
News The meeting was organised by the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR). Caspar Bowden, a former director of the FIPR who led the fight against the introduction of the RIP Act several years ago, told the meeting that Part III was flawed...
[August 15, 2006, 11:05]
BT to begin third Phorm trial
News One opponent of the trials, the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) thinktank, still has legal concerns about the upcoming trial. Richard Clayton, FIPR treasurer, told ZDNet.co.uk on Monday that the organisation was concerned not only...
[September 29, 2008, 12:49]
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]
Think-tank brands Jam Echelon Day 'pointless'
News The UK's most prominent Internet think-tank, The foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR), has branded a plan to overload an international email monitoring system as "pointless". This may look like a cunning ploy, but according to Nicholas...
[October 12, 1999, 13:50]
A Year Ago: Think-tank brands Jam Echelon Day 'pointless'
News The UK's most prominent Internet think-tank, The foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR), has branded a plan to overload an international email monitoring system as "pointless". This may look like a cunning ploy, but according to Nicholas...
[October 12, 2000, 7:06]
Government snooping will cost taxpayers millions
News The report -- commissioned by the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) and written by encryption expert Dr Brian Gladman -- claims the government has woefully miscalculated the cost and complexity of safe-guarding public encryption keys.
[March 1, 2000, 16:09]
A Year Ago: Government snooping will cost taxpayers millions
News The report -- commissioned by the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) and written by encryption expert Dr Brian Gladman -- claims the government has woefully miscalculated the cost and complexity of safe-guarding public encryption keys.
[March 1, 2001, 6:04]
Wiretapping may cost ISPs £17m - report
News Government policy think-tank the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) judges this to be a conservative estimate and suggests ISPs could end up forking out around £20m with the cost to Britain's economy escalating to as much as £34m.
[April 26, 2000, 10:17]
Surveillance: How encryption works - Part 2
News Caspar Bowden, of the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR), a think-tank that researches the UK government's policy on privacy and encryption, says, "There is so much rubbish written about encryption and it really is such a...
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
RIPA could cause new wave of cyber attacks
News Detective Chief Inspector Matt Sarti told a meeting organised by the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) that there are 200 computers sitting in police forensic centres and property cupboards with encrypted data on them that are...
[August 16, 2006, 10:20]
