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Roundup: Human rights and government cybersnooping
News The Human Rights Act (HRA), which passed into law Monday, codifies a person's right to privacy and private correspondence, but privacy experts fear that its impact may not be recognised in cyberspace.
[October 6, 2000, 11:23]
News Burst: Human Rights Act protects workplace privacy
News Businesses monitoring their employees' email and Internet usage could be infringing the new Human Rights Act (HRA) published Monday, which codifies a person's right to privacy and private correspondence.
[October 3, 2000, 10:38]
Hewlett-Packard (HP) Case Study: Human Rights & Equal Opportunities Commission
White Papers The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) is an Australian Federal government agency charged with protecting and promoting the human rights of Australian citizens. HREOC was experiencing crippling technical problems with its...
[June 24, 2009, 16:01]
ID cards labelled as human rights threat
News The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) has published its report into the implications of the Identity Cards Bill -- and says the legislation "raise[s] a number of serious questions" on human rights.
[February 3, 2005, 14:25]
RIPA and Human Rights Act conflict
News The government's controversial RIP Act violates the right to privacy within the workplace under the new Human Rights Act, according to legal experts Tuesday. Businesses monitoring their employees' email and Internet usage could be infringing the...
[October 3, 2000, 12:49]
China human rights site cracked
News The Web site of the Chinese Society for Human Rights, a state-run organization, was launched Monday, and contained links to government documents and other officially-sanctioned articles. The page also contained links to Amnesty International and...
[October 28, 1998, 9:12]
DefCon: hacking for human rights
News Human rights activists put out a call to hackers here to help get the word out about their cause -- not by having them deface sites, but by creating applications that can help the organisations manage data.
[July 17, 2001, 9:50]
Emergency data laws 'break Human Rights Act'
News Emergency data retention measures are likely to break European human rights laws, a joint Parliamentary committee said on Friday. But this may be incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), said the House of Lords and House of...
[November 16, 2001, 16:27]
To contravene one's human rights, etc
Talkback I fear that a policeman who extracts my personal data using a glorified card reader without my express permission will be breaching my human rights and offending under the Data Protection laws. So the Met is now getting the work done on behalf of...
[August 28, 2009, 9:36]
Digital spying under scrutiny - threat to human rights
News Spying on electronic communications by international agencies should be seen as a breach of human rights according to a five page proposal being considered by the European Parliament. According to reports, the proposal suggests that treaties and...
[April 13, 2000, 12:03]
Can you expect human rights online?
News The Human Rights Act is expected to bring new legal standards for citizens in Britain, but human rights experts fear that its impact may not be felt in cyberspace. Rather than respecting human rights, the government is moving towards a very...
[October 5, 2000, 15:09]
Computer crime treaty threatens human rights
News An international coalition of 28 human rights and civil liberties groups has called on the Council of Europe to alter its draft treaty on International cybercrime, warning that the agreement could violate the European Convention on Human Rights...
[October 19, 2000, 7:41]
News Burst: Human Rights Act protects workplace privacy
Talkback is there a law preventing employers getting in touch with employees whilst they are off work sick
[November 11, 2004, 18:01]
News Burst: Human Rights Act protects workplace privacy
Talkback I found your article very interesting does this apply to the uk
[August 13, 2005, 11:24]
RIPA surveillance may break human rights laws
News The powers, introduced by an upcoming provision of the controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), passed two years ago, may violate human rights laws because of a loophole under which law enforcement agencies may access data that...
[July 31, 2002, 16:43]
RIPA surveillance may break human rights laws
Talkback This is a direct violation of my human rights as well as an intrusion into my personal privacy. Dear Sir/Madam. For some time now I have been under surveillance. My flat has bugging devices in the form of wall socket transmitters, which were...
[June 21, 2006, 12:09]
Amnesty condemns tech firms over human rights
News The human rights group also alleged that Internet hardware companies Cisco and Sun had collaborated with the Chinese communist regime by providing and maintaining technologies that have been used for censorship.
[June 1, 2006, 15:30]
ID cards labelled as human rights threat
Talkback I'm not surprised that the PM is in favour of this. Perhaps the new ID cards would let the Government track exactly where David Blunkett is sleeping at night .and with whom!
[May 18, 2005, 22:11]
Amnesty condemns tech firms over human rights
Talkback Regardless of whether their products were customised or not, Cisco's defence that "it is our users, not Cisco, that determine the applications that they deploy" is a bit like an arms manufacturer saying that they have no responsibility for how...
[July 6, 2006, 12:22]
ID cards labelled as human rights threat
Talkback But then you've got to say to yourself where is the Home Secretary that introduced this Bill and what is the reason for his absence. There are enough CCTV cameras and ways of bugging conversation at the disposal of the secret services e.g.listening...
[February 4, 2005, 1:00]
