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CIA Funds Chatroom Surveillance
News Even though the money ostensibly comes from the National Science Foundation, CIA officials were involved in selecting recipients for the research grants, according to a contract between the two agencies obtained by the Electronic Privacy...
[November 25, 2004, 7:35]
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]
Zimmerman Joins UK Think Tank
News One of the founding fathers of modern cryptography, Phil Zimmermann -- who created PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) and thus introduced a generation of computer users to email encryption -- has joined the advisory council of the Foundation for...
[September 16, 2002, 10:31]
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. The foundation says it achieved these goals primarily by careful lobbying underpinned by rigorous research.
[March 27, 2002, 11:54]
Privacy Activists Call For Rules On RFID
News Other witnesses, including a representative from the consumer privacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation and a researcher from University of California at Los Angeles, also called for limits on the use of RFID and a technology assessment by...
[August 19, 2003, 9:30]
Web Bug Swarm Grows 500 Percent
News Earlier this year, the Denver-based Privacy Foundation introduced free software that helps consumers detect when a site or email contains a Web bug. According to the policy, CNET does not "aggregate or track personally identifiable information when...
[August 15, 2001, 10:09]
Social Software: A Boon For Business?
News Social Capital and Social Software -- the latest study from The Work Foundation's iSociety research project, published on Thursday, which has studied the cultural effect of social software. Organisations have been mystified as to why ICTs have...
[May 30, 2003, 12:17]
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]
Researchers Break Banking-level Encryption
News Kasper Bowden, director of the Foundation for Information Policy Research -- an independent think-tank researching the impact of government policy on e-commerce -- believes the feat represents a "milestone" in encryption practices.
[August 27, 1999, 17:12]
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]
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]
System Administrators Face Licensing Turmoil
News However, Caspar Bowden, director of the Foundation for Information Policy Research, accuses the government of failing to explain why IT consultants cannot be made exempt from the legislation and suggests that the Home Office may be looking...
[May 11, 2001, 17:44]
Online Privacy Case Thrown Out
News I don't think it's relevant whether or not they actually read the privacy policy first," said Lee Tien, senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in San Francisco. The plaintiffs had contended that the airline, in giving...
[June 16, 2004, 15:45]
RIP Bill Comes Under Fresh Attack
News Wednesday's report, the Human Rights Legal Audit, was commissioned by Justice, the human rights legal organisation, and government policy think-tank the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR).
[March 22, 2000, 11:50]
Government's Data Retention Back-pedal Fails To Impress
News It is this consultation that has drawn the most ire, with Ian Brown, director of the Foundation for Information Policy Research, calling it "disingenuous". The government is scaling down its data retention plans in a renewed effort to quell public...
[March 11, 2003, 13:39]
EU Lawmakers Threaten Open Source
News Ross Anderson, the chair of the Foundation for Information Policy Research, said the proposed directive could help SCO or other companies in future IP infringement cases against open source software. The European branch of the Free Software...
[August 1, 2005, 17:45]
Whois Database 'contributes To Identity Theft'
News The letter has been signed by organisations from 21 countries including the American Library Association, the UK's Foundation for Information Policy Research, the Consumer Federation of America, the Australian Privacy Foundation and the Fédération...
[November 6, 2003, 12:00]
Report Undermines RIP
News Caspar Bowden, of Internet policy think-tank Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) says Thursday's report will expose inadequacies in the legislation. It [the report] will show how RIP will destabilise policy by creating a legitimate...
[July 25, 2000, 15:46]
Civil Liberties Groups Condemn Big Brother Proposals
News Caspar Bowden, director of government policy think-tank, the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR), believes that this is the most sinister aspect of the new proposals. The security services and the police have a voracious appetite for...
[December 4, 2000, 8:40]
UK Government Scoops 'Internet Villain' Nominations
News The nominations for Internet hero go to Broadband4Britain.com, to the information commissioner Elizabeth France and to Caspar Bowden of the Foundation for Information Policy Research. For everything Internet-related, from the latest legal and...
[January 17, 2002, 16:58]
