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Civil liberties groups condemn Big Brother proposals
News Civil liberties advocates have branded the suggestion "unreasonable" and argue that Britain could risk being humiliated in front of Europe's top court. Yaman Akdenis, director of UK Internet rights group Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties condemns the...
[December 4, 2000, 8:40]
Civil liberties group opposes Clinton's spy plans
News With most wiretaps authorised by U.S.judges over the past decade targeted at individual offenders such as gamblers and drug runners, rather than big-time terrorists, proposed new wiretap powers in the US, will only give the Clinton administration...
[March 24, 1998, 10:14]
Civil liberties group warns of EU surveillance proposal
News Statewatch, a UK Internet-based organisation that monitors threats to civil liberties within Europe, said on Wednesday that several European governments are deeply committed to bringing in universal surveillance of telecommunications within the...
[May 9, 2002, 14:20]
Internet firms may quit UK civil liberties experts say
News Failure to bring UK cyber legislation in line with the US could have grave consequences for British Internet businesses civil liberties leaders warn Wednesday. But UK ISPs will continue to be at a disadvantage thinks Malcom Hutty, director of civil...
[May 3, 2000, 14:47]
Civil liberties group denounces 'trusted' PCs
News A high-profile digital civil liberties group is criticising a component of the "trusted computing" technology promoted by Microsoft, IBM and other technology companies, calling the feature a threat to computer users.
[October 2, 2003, 15:35]
Civil liberties group takes on DMCA
News The American Civil Liberties Union plans to file a lawsuit on Thursday in an attempt to overturn key portions of a controversial 1998 copyright law. By suing on behalf of a 22-year-old programmer who's researching the oft-buggy products, the civil...
[July 25, 2002, 14:58]
Civil liberties groups unite for RFID protest
News Civil liberties groups from both sides of the Atlantic have joined forces to oppose the proposed introduction and cross-border sharing of biometrics and RFID in more than one billion passports worldwide.
[March 31, 2004, 11:15]
Civil liberties groups demand halt to RFID
News Over 30 civil liberties and privacy groups have demanded a suspension to the deployment of radio frequency identification (RFID) tagging systems until a number of issues surrounding the controversial technology have been addressed.
[November 20, 2003, 17:15]
RIAA draws civil liberties opposition
News In a move that could complicate the RIAA's pursuit of peer-to-peer pirates, the American Civil Liberties Union said on Monday it had filed court documents accusing the trade association of illegally using thousands of subpoenas to unmask alleged...
[September 30, 2003, 12:40]
Civil liberties groups demand halt to RFID
Talkback I won't start worrying until I start reading in mainstream newspapers how RFID will help in the fight against terrorism and/or Child Pornography.as we're now seeing with surveillance of P2P) Once that happens its probably time to head for the hills.
[November 24, 2003, 10:04]
News Burst: Civil liberties outrage as judge shuts site
News The Web site was removed by Kingston Internet following requests from the Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine. Lord Irvine complained that a Web site set up by James Hulbert, 67 -- a customer of Kingston Internet -- was offensive.
[November 11, 1999, 14:45]
Civil liberties groups unite for RFID protest
Talkback I read on ZombieWire that 75% of the people in the United States alone know nothing aboutthe RFID movment. I think people need to go out and address this issue with their friends , peers or whom ever.
[November 8, 2004, 19:35]
Civil liberties groups demand halt to RFID
Talkback You're too late. Amsterdam airport and several others are going to start tagging all luggage with RFID chips in order to better track items. Reasons are twofold: reduce the amount of lost luggage (if each item is scanned leaving the building it can...
[November 25, 2003, 9:02]
Civil liberties groups demand halt to RFID
Talkback People willing to give up personal freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both. This is the real start of governments total control of citizens
[January 27, 2005, 17:41]
Data Mining, National Security, Privacy and Civil Liberties
White Papers There has been much interest recently on using data mining for counter-terrorism applications. For example, data mining can be used to detect unusual patterns, terrorist activities and fraudulent behavior.
[September 20, 2008, 0:00]
MP3 - Civil liberties group joins the row
News The pioneering U.S.electronic civil rights group on Tuesday held the first meeting of the Consortium for Audiovisual Free Expression, or CAFE, aimed at ensuring that consumers continue to have choices in downloading music from the Internet.
[May 26, 1999, 8:45]
Our essential liberties must not be compromised for an empty security dream
Blog Following the Queen's Speech today which promised to press on with ID Cards, here's an interesting comment piece in the Guardian which is talking a lot of sense: The temptation to become irrational in the fight against home-grown terrorism in...
[November 15, 2006, 17:02]
Group warns of Europe's 'DMCA on steroids'
News A coalition of 38 civil liberties organisations is the latest to attack proposed EU legislation on intellectual property enforcement, which has also come under fire from the recording industry and a British Internet policy think tank.
[August 11, 2003, 16:45]
International surveillance plan slammed
News Civil liberties groups from both sides of the Atlantic have joined forces to oppose the proposed introduction and cross-border sharing of biometrics and RFID in more than one billion passports worldwide.
[April 2, 2004, 15:50]
Lord Chancellor shuts down Web site
News Civil liberties advocates were furious Thursday following the closure of a Web site for carrying allegedly "offensive" material. Civil liberties experts are worried about the precedent being set by both cases.
[November 12, 1999, 17:08]
