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A Year Ago: Government snooping will cost taxpayers millions
News Government snooping plans will cost the taxpayer "hundreds of millions" of pounds, according to a report published on Monday. Plans to seize encryption keys from crime suspects will leave them vulnerable to theft and misuse
[March 1, 2001, 6:04]
Pressure grows on government to scrap snooping bill
News The government claims its email snooping bill is necessary to keep law enforcers up to date with criminals using the Net but opponents argue it is an unprecedented intrusion on privacy. Firstly it questions the government's estimates of the amount...
[June 7, 2000, 8:44]
Cyber-snooping Bill through House of Commons
News The much maligned RIP (Regulation of Investigatory Powers) Bill, or 'snooping bill' as it is better known, completed its third and final reading in the House of Commons Monday despite a last ditch attack from opposition MPs.
[May 9, 2000, 17:03]
Anti-snooping gurus converge on London
News The world's experts on surveillance and privacy will converge in London this Friday to discuss the growth of government snooping in the Internet age. Experts on government surveillance, the latest snooping technologies and cutting edge counter...
[September 19, 2000, 13:19]
Hackers may be snooping on you - Broadband scare
News Since many cable-modem-based networks use the rerouting technology, users are left open to someone snooping their communications to the Internet. That's the danger highlighted in a security advisory released on Wednesday by hacker-cum-security...
[August 12, 1999, 11:43]
Unions: Publish snooping code of practice
News The Trades Union Congress (TUC) believes that publishing the final document governing 'snooping' in the workplace should be a top priority. Union chiefs in the UK are today urging the new information commissioner to resist employer lobbying and...
[January 9, 2003, 10:05]
key logging and snooping software
Talkback Are companies allowed to install and use key logging and other snooping software to capture information about your work without telling you they are doing this? Quite a simple topic but I bet the answers are not going to be simple.
[May 20, 2008, 16:47]
Government snooping will hurt e-commerce
News The meeting, attended by at least one UK member of parliament, echoed Davies' concerns, although the privacy community is divided about how to preserve privacy from commercial entities, and whether commercial prying is different from government...
[September 28, 2001, 9:27]
Government snooping will cost taxpayers millions
News Government snooping plans will cost the taxpayer "hundreds of millions" of pounds, according to a report published on Monday. Under powers proposed in the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) bill -- currently going through Parliament -- law...
[March 1, 2000, 16:09]
Berners-Lee says no to internet 'snooping'
News The government's desire to know all about us may be hampering its doing anything about others who are snooping," he said. The inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has attacked deep packet inspection, a technique used to monitor...
[March 11, 2009, 15:11]
Lords: Put a stop to 'pervasive' snooping
News Citing instances where councils have spied on citizens when investigating littering, the report says that any victims of "unlawful surveillance" by a local authority should receive compensation and that local authority snooping under the...
[February 6, 2009, 12:22]
Hushmail backs UK anti-snooping effort
News Through a joint project 'Cyber-Rights.Net', the pair will provide a route to bypass snooping regulations in the UK and at the same time draw attention to what they view as international moves to synchronise Internet surveillance.
[November 1, 2000, 15:34]
MPAA launches software snooping tool
Talkback This is bullshit, they should know by now that all they are doing is wasting more money trying to catch people that are smarter than they are. Sure, they might catch a few kids and maybe an adult or two here and there, but the traffickers that...
[November 17, 2004, 14:25]
MPAA launches software snooping tool
Talkback What about the billions of dollars that is being lost in China from their copying? No one likes to talk about that. Let's just sue our client base! I do agree something needs to be done, but is this the only option?
[November 17, 2004, 13:39]
Unions: Publish snooping code of practice
Talkback Can anyone advise me is it legal for an employer top tape record a conversation without consent of the employee and coerce them into saying certain things for thew benefit of the recording.
[June 25, 2005, 10:22]
MPAA launches software snooping tool
Talkback The 9th Circuit court rules that bloggers and online news sites do not get the same 1st amendment rights as the traditional offline press does. Quotes: Fosbinder criticized the panel for failing to “even mention” the First Amendment and argued that...
[December 2, 2004, 20:57]
UN snooping: the technology of surveillance
News Snooping laws may be illegal Ruling bars police from in-car computer snooping Here he introduces a major ZDNet investigation into the new, automated, desktop snooping Not only has modern technology made bugging devices tiny and silent, we willingly...
[February 27, 2004, 13:35]
MPAA launches software snooping tool
Talkback Hmmm. A tool that helps look for coyright ingringing files. How hard can it be to create a tool that does a search for *.avi; *.mpg; *.mov; *.WMV; *.asf and then just say all of it is in copyright violation?
[November 17, 2004, 17:36]
Finnish police expand snooping investigation
Talkback To understand the TeliaSonera customer figures you have to know that TeliaSolera operates in Sweden and Finland fomed by Telia(Sweden) and Sonera(Finland). This is all about the Sonera part of TeliaSonera.
[August 30, 2004, 19:12]
Tories plan to block Internet snooping Bill
News According to shadow Home Office Minister Anne Widdecombe, the conservatives are considering withdrawing support for the Bill over the issue of proving the legal authorities with encryption keys. The government wants to push the bill through by July.
[March 9, 2000, 9:01]
