Government snooping will hurt e-commerce
News People will use the Internet with more neurosis, if they think they are being snooped on," said Simon Davies, founder of human rights pressure group Privacy International, whose research with the London School of Economics produced the £4.6bn figure.
[September 28, 2001, 9:27]
Chris Patten: Politicians have no grasp of technology
News Privacy campaigner Simon Davies, chairman of No2ID, agreed politicians aren't in touch with the issues underlying the technology issues they legislate on, and criticised the conditions in government that have allowed the situation to come into...
[October 26, 2006, 16:40]
Government hints at ID card security
News I would question whether meaningful control can be maintained over who has access, and who that data is then shared with," said Simon Davies, director of Privacy International and a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics.
[November 15, 2006, 13:10]
ID card costs rise amid security concerns
News Director of Privacy International Simon Davies welcomed the removal of the Nirno, following concerns it could be cross referenced across multiple transactions — such as proof-of-age purchases or opening a bank account — to track a person's...
[November 10, 2008, 8:53]
Big Brother Awards highlight digital privacy threats
News Interception of communications was high on the agenda at the event, which has hosted by comic and investigative journalist Mark Thomas, and Simon Davies of Privacy International. And the Lifetime menace award went to the national ID and data...
[March 5, 2002, 12:12]
ID cards: Do benefits outweigh risks?
News The consultation has been a sham from the word go," said Simon Davies, Privacy International's director, earlier this year. Many also complain about the sheer arrogance of government in the way it has managed the consultation," Davies added.
[January 23, 2003, 16:38]
Government attacked over ID card costs
News Home Office minister Tony McNulty admitted this week that the government had "oversold" the case for ID cards, and Simon Davies, visiting fellow at the LSE, said support for the scheme is vanishing fast.
[August 8, 2005, 9:25]
IT firms told to flock to ID card project
News Ultimately the taxpayer will shoulder the main burden of the costs.said Simon Davies, visiting fellow at LSE. In the wake of the passing of the ID card bill in the House of Commons on Monday, experts from the London School of Economics (LSE) have...
[February 15, 2006, 13:30]
Privacy advocates confident about ID card defeat
News Speaking to ZDNet UK on Tuesday, Simon Davies, the director of Privacy International, said his organisation is not actively campaigning against the newly introduced ID Card bill, as it is confident that the LSE report will be enough to put an end...
[May 17, 2005, 17:55]
Stolen e-passports 'worth millions' on black market
News Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, said: "It's unlikely that the stolen passports could easily navigate the UK borders but a criminal could use one indefinitely for 'flash and go' purposes.
[July 30, 2008, 9:25]
ID card row hits new low
News Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, called the decision a disgrace. The government knows that 80 percent of the responses had opposed an ID card, yet it continues to use deceptive and duplicitous tactics to perpetuate the myth that the...
[June 5, 2003, 12:45]
Big Brother turns its eye to Gmail
Talkback Simon Davies is right to challenge this. That all said, with Home Secretary David 'Big' Blunkett still pushing his authoritarian utopias (ID card, population database, biometrics, dismantling of trial by jury, on-the-spot fines etc) I think GMail...
[June 22, 2004, 12:37]
ID cards 'may still fail'
News Simon Davies, a visiting fellow of the Information Systems group at LSE, said that while the new scheme distributes information around a number of existing databases, what is not clear is whether these existing databases will have the necessary...
[December 21, 2006, 7:31]
Government slammed for ID database 'shambles'
News The government is incapable of saying what this beast will look like," Simon Davies, a visiting fellow at LSE, told ZDNet UK on Wednesday. The government said on Tuesday that it had no fixed plans for the form and structure of the database that...
[February 15, 2006, 16:20]
Identity minister moots ID cards on driving licences
News Simon Davies, director of human rights group Privacy International, said: "It will bring almost the entire population into the scheme. A Home Office minister has mooted turning UK driving licences into ID cards, sparking accusations the national...
[October 21, 2008, 17:18]
Big Brother Awards nominees plumb new depths
News Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, the founding organisation, said that during the judging process, it became clear that government agencies and companies have "stooped to an all-time low" in the willful violation of privacy.
[February 25, 2002, 11:13]
Lords: Put a stop to 'pervasive' snooping
News Simon Davies, director of Privacy International, said: "This report reflects a sea change in public opinion. At the same time, national databases designed to hold personal information on nearly every UK citizen are being set up across Whitehall...
[February 6, 2009, 12:22]
Survey gives thumbs-up to ID cards
News Privacy International director Simon Davies told ZDNet UK that at the end of last week this project had received around 700 calls, of which two-thirds were in opposition. Four out of five UK citizens are in favour of the introduction of entitlement...
[January 30, 2003, 9:09]
Privacy International cries foul over ID cards
News It should accept that an extension of the consultation period is squarely in the public interest," said Privacy International's director, Simon Davies, in a statement. A number of representatives of business, welfare and political groups have...
[January 30, 2003, 17:55]
