Tagged “surveillance”

1. The Home Office and its antidemocratic surveillance plans
   15 July 2014UK politics surveillance

   Last week, the Home Secretary Theresa May announced in Parliament that she was introducing emergency legislation to require companies to store metadata about our communications — our phone calls, text messages and Internet use. That legislation — the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill — is due to be rushed through Parliament, with cross-party support, this week. It’s not an emergency and this DRIP bill is neither business-as-usual nor uncontentious

2. Some campaign resources on privacy and surveillance
   5 July 2014surveillance

   So I’ve been clearing out my filing cabinet, which I’ve barely even opened in the four years we’ve been living in Woking. This means I’ve been reminded of a bunch of papers and references I compiled for campaigning — mainly against ID cards. Now I don’t need all of these in hardcopy, so I’m looking them all up electronically. As I wanted to have them as reference, I figure that other people might also like the references, so why not put together a blogpost at the same time.

3. Why I hate the EU Cookie Directive
   5 June 2012surveillance UK politics European politics

   I shared a blogpost to Facebook entitled “Dear ICO: This is why web developers hate you” with the comment

   Excellent rant explaining why the EU Privacy Directive (the “Cookie law”) may well suck … but it’s the ICO who’ve made the Internet industry’s lives hell of late. Sheer simple incompetence.

   A friend’s comment prompted me finally to get round to blogging about my thoughts on the EU “Cookie Directive”, why I think it’s such a terrible piece of legislation and why I believe the ICO handled the situation shamefully incompetently.