Surveillance News – Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society

ICO issues guidance on when and how to remove personal data ‘safely’ from disclosable information to avoid breaching data protection rules

Arne Hintz — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 09:30:44 +0000

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has recently published guidance on what to do when handling requests for information in respect of which personal data must first be removed before it can be disclosed safely. In other words, this issue relates to information that requires further processing by a data...

Why the NSA may not need backdoors

Arne Hintz — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 09:30:03 +0000

Between NSA’s Bluffdale, Utah data center, the government’s supercomputer facility in Oakridge, Tenn., and possible cracked primes, backdoors may be unnecessary.

The Guardian view on the draft investigatory powers bill: snooper’s charter 3.0

Arne Hintz — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 09:29:01 +0000

The debate is getting lost in detail, amid ‘concessions’ on proposals that were never serious. But at core this week’s draft legislation is about legitimising bulk data collection. The consequences are chilling

Denmark considers granting asylum to Edward Snowden

Arne Hintz — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 09:25:26 +0000

After the European Parliament passed a resolution Thursday urging states to drop criminal charges against former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden and offer him protection, two political parties in Denmark have stepped forward, the Local reported Friday. The left-leaning Alternative and the Red-Green Alliance parties want Denmark’s parliament to...

Theresa May set for clash with Dominic Grieve over new spy laws

Arne Hintz — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 09:23:36 +0000

Home Secretary may need to be stripped of power to authorise phone-tapping and email snooping to increase trust in MI5 and GCHQ, chair of Intelligence and Security Committee says

UK internet providers may yet be required to keep browsing data

Arne Hintz — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 09:22:43 +0000

Latest round of lobbying by senior police officers and security services suggests the measure will be resurrected in new investigatory powers bill.

Top German official infected by highly advanced spy trojan with NSA ties

Arne Hintz — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 09:51:17 +0000

German Chancellor Angela Merkel may not be the only high-ranking leader from that country to be spied on by the National Security Agency. According to a report published over the weekend, German authorities are investigating whether the head of the German Federal Chancellery unit had his laptop infected with Regin,...

Facebook Denies Claims It Lobbied For Controversial Cybersecurity Bill

Arne Hintz — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 09:50:29 +0000

There’s a piece of legislation going through Congress right now that digital rights activists and web organisations – Twitter, Salesforce, Yelp, Reddit and Wikipedia to name a few – are railing against. It’s called the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, a bill that is, on the surface, trying to make it easier for governments and private organisations to share data deemed critical to fighting online crime. But opponents claim it’s solely designed to allow more government snooping on internet users.

Surveillance, privacy, and the British press

Arne Hintz — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 09:48:53 +0000

In the surveillance versus privacy debate that followed Snowden’s revelations, the UK government and the British press have been rather strange bedfellows.