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UK spammers set to avoid prosecution until 2005
News The Information Commissioner's Office, which applies the Privacy and Electronic Communication regulations, says that it needs stronger powers to act against suspected transgressors. The Privacy and Electronic Communication regulations, which came...
[April 16, 2004, 12:50]
European Parliament restricts access to personal data
News The controversial EU directive, which was simply intended to update current laws to include modern means of communication, is likely to breach Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees a person's right to privacy.
[July 12, 2001, 15:54]
UK law failing to nail spammers
News Not a single prosecution has been brought under the Privacy and Electronic Communication regulations and none is imminent, according to the Office of the Information Commissioner on Monday. The Privacy and Electronic Communication regulations are...
[December 13, 2004, 17:10]
EU agreement on communications snooping 'unlikely'
News The new directive, which was simply intended to update current laws to include modern means of communication, risks contravening data protection and privacy principles. The Telecommunications Council in Brussels today will discuss the controversial...
[June 27, 2001, 13:19]
Privacy concerns over Google Desktop 3
News But the EFF claimed this feature "greatly increases the risk to consumer privacy" due to US legislation — the Electronic Communication Privacy Act — which means files that are stored with online service providers enjoy less privacy protection than...
[February 10, 2006, 17:15]
Spam under fire from UK government
News The UK government has proposed its measures as a way of implementing the EU directive on privacy and electronic communications, which comes into effect later this year. Launching a consultation on the proposals on Thursday, e-commerce minister...
[March 27, 2003, 13:28]
DoJ may regret battling Google over porn probe
News That law, called the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) provides potent legal safeguards for "electronic communication services". That is a good thing for privacy and I think the correct application of the law," says Kevin Bankston, an...
[February 22, 2006, 12:30]
Information commissioner slams European data initiative
News Elizabeth France, the information commissioner, has heated up the European debate over police powers to snoop on communication traffic data and location data, warning that access to this data by law enforcement authorities should be "limited to...
[July 13, 2001, 16:44]
Police slammed for 'hysterical' response to EU privacy directive
News The new Directive was intended to update current laws on privacy and data protection to include modern means of communication. The National Crime Intelligence Squad (NCIS) last week issued what Caspar Bowden, director of the Foundation for...
[August 13, 2001, 12:52]
On the merits of data retention
News Data storage issues aside for the moment, communication logs like the EU's directives call for offer questionable protection from a small group at the expense of both civil liberties and the privacy of the larger group.
[January 10, 2006, 14:35]
Controls eased on MS Passport
News Unfortunately, they're old terms of use that we're obviously updating," said Microsoft spokesman Tom Pillow, who added that the terms of use will be changed "to reflect the (site's) privacy statement" in the next day or two.
[April 5, 2001, 8:03]
New car technology worries US privacy advocates
News David Sobel, general council for the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Centre, also had concerns about the nature of AACN registration. General Motors will begin installing new sensors and communications systems into vehicles next...
[August 1, 2002, 13:59]
DejaNews To Stop Tracking Addresses
News By gathering senders' numeric Internet Protocol addresses, DejaNews potentially could know identities of both sides of the electronic communication. The new policy comes just days after computer sleuth Richard Smith discovered the company was...
[May 5, 1999, 11:32]
Who's watching you online?
News People need to be made aware of what is going on behind the scenes," said David Sobel, general counsel for the online privacy watcher Electronic Privacy Information Centre. The fact that it is collected by the company voids your privacy rights.
[April 19, 1999, 14:04]
Europe moves to monitor all Internet traffic
News However, the new proposals go much further and would require changes to the data protection and privacy directives, as well as demanding massive amendments to the telecommunications directive currently being reviewed by the European Parliament.
[May 17, 2001, 7:48]
ISPs may be forced to keep tabs on customers
News The EFA was also concerned to find that the report seemed to recommend the reduction in the level of offence that required law enforcement agencies to use their surveillance powers, and that the report recommends that what were once Federal...
[August 29, 2001, 14:26]
Wiretap cover-up rings privacy alarm bells
News The Los Angeles Police Department and district attorney's office are covering up widespread and illegal wiretapping, the Los Angeles public defender's office charged Wednesday, in the latest round of a growing legal battle that's piqued the...
[October 22, 1999, 10:16]
EU data retention laws face rough ride
Talkback Apart from the privacy issues this will raise (eg: anybody interested in having their full communication logs available to administrator so and so looking for extra money? So you have this huge amount of electronic data.
[June 2, 2005, 21:57]
EU data-retention directive leaked
News According to the EU, there will be a "limited invasion of privacy" and "a limited impact on the competitiveness of the electronic communications industry", as telecoms companies across Europe will have to capture and retain large amounts of data...
[August 2, 2005, 9:45]
Court victory in the fight against spam
News However, the Privacy and Electronic Communication regulations have been repeatedly attacked for lacking the powers to bring spammers to heel. The decision, which comes three years after the European Union passed the directive on privacy and...
[December 28, 2005, 12:20]
