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Monthly Archives: June 2012
The snoopers charter
I have just made a ‘short submission’ to the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) regarding the Draft Communications Data Bill – I’ve reproduced the contents below. I have reformatted it in order to make it more readable here, but … Continue reading
Posted in data retention, Freedom of expression, Internet, Privacy, surveillance
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Votes for kids?
Earlier today I retweeted a tweet suggesting that we lower the voting age from 18 to 16. It was just a ‘casual’ retweet, on the spur of the moment, but when the excellent Owen Blacker (@owenblacker on twitter) challenged me … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Law, surveillance
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The Dalai Lama at the LSE…
I had the deep privilege of attending the Dalai Lama’s lecture at the LSE this morning – and it really was a privilege. The subject was ‘tolerance’… …and, frankly, I thought he was remarkable. I’m not sure exactly what I … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
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Labour and the ‘Snoopers’ Charter’…
The draft Communications Data Bill – dubbed, pretty accurately in my view, as the ‘Snoopers’ charter’ – has already been the subject of a great deal of scrutiny. I’ve blogged about it a number of times, as have many others … Continue reading
Posted in data retention, Internet, Privacy, surveillance
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A police state?
Yesterday saw the release of the details of the Draft Communications Bill - and, despite the significant competing interest in David Cameron’s appearance at the Leveson Inquiry, its arrival was greeted with a lot of attention and reaction, both positive and … Continue reading
Posted in data retention, Privacy, surveillance
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Anonymity, trolls – and defamation?
A headline on the BBC’s website this morning reads: “Websites to be forced to identify trolls under new measures” Beneath it, the first sentence says something somewhat different: “Websites will soon be forced to identify people who have posted defamatory … Continue reading
Posted in Defamation, Disinformation, Privacy
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Opt-in is no red herring…
Briefly, very briefly, Microsoft looked like being surprising but serious ‘good-guys’ in relation in Internet privacy. They announced that Internet Explorer 10 would be launched with ‘do not track’ set as ‘on’ by default. That is, that out of the … Continue reading
Posted in Microsoft, Online Behavioural Advertising, Privacy
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