Neil Watson, Head of Service Operations at wholesale voice and data communications provider Entanet, writes on the company’s blog: The IMP (Interception Modernisation Programme) was a highly controversial plan from the then Labour government which planned to intercept and store immense amounts of communications data in a bid to fight cybercrime and terrorism. It would [...]
R. Ramakumar, Associate Professor with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, writes in The Hindu comparing India’s ID card project with the last Labour governments’: Two countries. Two pet projects of the respective Prime Ministers. Unmistakable parallels in the discourse. “The case for ID cards is a case not about liberty, but about [...]
James Baker writes on the LibDem Voice web page: Amongst the frenzy of the phone hacking scandal Philip Virgo has recalled operation Motorman. This investigation by the Information Commissioner and follow-up report What Price Privacy Now studies and provides details of the illegal trade in personal private information. Rather than being limited to the phone [...]
Ed West writes in his blog on the Telegraph web site: But the reason for Murdoch’s trouble is ironic. His papers breached people’s privacy. First off, coke-snorting celebs, who are mostly unsympathetic figures, indeed almost as repulsive as journalists. But then, it turned out, they were also doing it to murder victims and even to [...]
David Leigh and Nick Davies write in The Guardian: An unexpected ruling by a judge six years ago effectively covered up the chance to publicly expose evidence of the illegal targeting of Gordon Brown, which had been unearthed by a startled team of provincial detectives. Operation Reproof, by Plymouth police, revealed the first of what [...]
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