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UK Web snooping plans unworkable, say critics
News Experts from London School of Economics say U.K. government plan to record traffic details of all Web communications is "an impossibility".
Tags: Security, Government, Microsoft Windows Live, Spokesperson, phone, Internet User, user-ID, London School of Economics, Internet Service Provider, Internet
Report: Some UK govt databases may be illegal
News A quarter of U.K. government databases could contravene European human-rights laws, according to an independent body of experts.
Tags: Data mining & analysis, Databases, Regulations, DNA, Security, Report, Home Secretary, Government Database, Database, Spokesperson
Facebook attacks UK govt Web-monitoring plans
News Chief privacy officer Chris Kelly says government proposals to track all social-networking traffic data would be unnecessary, impractical and possibly bad for business.
Tags: Privacy, Traffic Data, Attack, Bebo, Facebook, IM, monitoring, U.K., Internet Service Provider, Internet
UK public targeted by 1,500 monitoring bids per day
News Liberal Democrats claim the United Kingdom has "sleepwalked into a surveillance state" after public authorities make more than half-a-million interception requests in one year.
Tags: Network security, Authentication and encryption, Security, Home Secretary, Democrat, monitoring, technique, service provider, Network security, team
UK authorities deny prototype intercept database
News Security experts understand that a prototype centralized database has been built, to test whether all U.K. citizens' communications information can be stored.
Tags: Data warehousing/business intelligence, Privacy, Security, Booth, Database, Spokesperson, U.K., Web, Home Office, Privacy
UK Internet data-retention law comes into force
News From this week, Internet service providers will be obliged to retain details of Internet communications, including e-mail, for 12 months.
Tags: Privacy, Data, Mobile, data retention, e-mail, telephony, U.K., Internet Service Provider, Internet, monitor
UK govt Web monitoring plans unworkable, warns Linx
News Traffic-switching organization, London Internet Exchange, says proposals to monitor all Web communications are technologically impractical.
Tags: Data security, Authentication and encryption, Network security, data retention, Spokesperson, communications service provider, Government, e-mail, monitoring, Internet
Plan to extend police-hacking powers gathers pace
News The Home Office is working with the European Parliament on plans to extend police powers to remotely search PCs without a warrant.
Tags: Corporate law, Web 2.0, Hacking, Police, European Parliament, Officer, computer security expert, Computer, phone, Wi-Fi
IBM, CSC win UK ID card biometrics contracts
News IBM will build and run the biometrics database behind the National Identity Register, while CSC will implement processing and enrollment systems, including online passport applications.
Tags: Biometrics, Business applications, IBM Corp., Home Secretary, Booth, Database, ID Card, Passport, U.K., bank
Opposition party highlights flaw in UK govt comms data plans
News The Conservatives have raised concerns about who will have access to communications-traffic data, but welcome a halt to plans for a single, centralized database.
Tags: Data security, Database management, Government, Home Secretary, Spokesperson, communications service provider, Flaw, phone, user-ID, U.K.
US$39M cost of tracking e-mail and phone calls
News U.K. Home Office reveals multimillion-pound cost of monitoring kingdom's communications.
Tags: Security, Privacy, Government, data retention, communications service provider, Internet Service, phone, e-mail, electronic communication, Internet Service Provider
One million people's details could be culled from UK database
News The European Union rules the United Kingdom has violated human rights by keeping DNA details and possibly fingerprints of about 850,000 people suspected of a crime.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Data security, Database management, Crime, DNA, Home Secretary, Database, European Union, European Court, London
UK police slash paperwork with mobiles
News From next week, law enforcers in the United Kingdom will use handheld devices to enter data during street searches, which can help cut each process from 20 minutes to 60 seconds.
Tags: Employee communications, State Government, Politics, Mobile, Home Secretary, Officer, Mobile Device, handheld computer, State Government, CIO
UK authorities respond to Facebook criticism
News The U.K. authorities have given a response to Facebook's assertion that monitoring all communications on social-networking sites would be overkill.
Tags: Privacy, Database, network theory, Government, social networking, e-mail, Facebook, theory, U.K., network
UK govt denies developing mass surveillance tech
News Security experts point out that while the U.K. government has denied intercepting and recording content, it avoided saying anything about traffic data.
Tags: Data security, Privacy, Home Secretary, Database, Spokesperson, Britain, Government, phone, University of Cambridge, U.K.
