Facebook Aims to Market its User Data Bank to Businesses

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2 February 2009
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Facebook intends to capitalise on the wealth of information it has about its users by offering its 150 million-strong customer base to corporations as a market research tool. The appearance, later this year, of corporate polls targeted at certain parts of the Facebook audience because of the information they have posted on their pages, is likely to infuriate privacy campaigners

Netspace Customers Rail Against ISP Filtering

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31 January 2009
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Netspace has released the results of its customer survey on ISP level filtering, which shows strong opposition to the federal government’s plan. The survey found that 78.9% of the almost 10,000 respondents disagreed with the federal government’s plan to mandate ISP level filtering for all Australians, with 61.8% of those strongly disagreeing. Over 70% of Netspace customers also showed strong opposition to the potential for increased broadband prices and a reduction in Internet performance as a result of filtering

Big Brother Filter Plan Insults Parents

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26 January 2009
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Underlying the Rudd Government’s plan to screen the internet is an offensive message: that parents cannot be trusted to mind their children online. Adult supervision should be front and centre of the effort to improve online safety, a responsibility accepted by most parents, grandparents, teachers and carers. But the Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, seems to think differently: filtering content at internet service provider level is central to the Government’s plan to make the internet a safer place for children. There is no technological substitute for adult supervision and it’s irresponsible and misleading to infer otherwise. Mandating a so-called clean feed has the potential to create a dangerous false sense of security, leading parents to believe ongoing supervision and vigilance is no longer needed

Whistleblower: NSA Spied on Everyone, Targeted Journalists

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24 January 2009
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Former National Security Agency analyst Russell Tice, who helped expose the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping in December 2005, has now come forward with even more startling allegations. Tice told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann on Wednesday that the programs that spied on Americans were not only much broader than previously acknowledged but specifically targeted journalists

Kaspersky, Sophos to Block UK Police Hacks

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9 January 2009
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Security vendors Sophos and Kaspersky Lab this week said they would block UK police attempts to hack into people’s computer systems without a warrant. The UK Home Office last week said it was working with the European Parliament on plans to extend police powers to conduct remote searches of computers. UK police already have the power to hack into suspect systems without a warrant, due to an amendment to the Computer Misuse Act, which came into force in 1995

British Police Set to Step Up Hacking of Home PCs

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6 January 2009
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The Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant. The move, which follows a decision by the European Union’s council of ministers in Brussels, has angered civil liberties groups and opposition MPs. They described it as a sinister extension of the surveillance state which drives a coach and horses through privacy laws. The hacking is known as remote searching. It allows police or MI5 officers who may be hundreds of miles away to examine covertly the hard drive of someone’s PC at his home, office or hotel room

Blogger Writes from Inside the Newest Police State on the Planet

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3 January 2009
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A blogger from India recently wrote a piece about the new surveillance laws of India and the arguments used to pass it as well as some of the provisions that were mentioned seemed surprisingly similar to that of laws being brought forth to legislators in countries like Australia, Britain and what is currently being talked about in the United States

Big Brother CCTV to Spy on Pupils Aged Four — Complete with CPS Evidence Kit

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30 December 2008
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Schools have installed CCTV cameras and microphones in classrooms to watch and listen to pupils as young as four. The Big Brother-style surveillance is being marketed as a way to identify pupils disrupting lessons when teachers’ backs are turned. But data protection watchdog the Information Commissioner has warned the surveillance may be illegal and demanded to know why primary and secondary schools are using this kind of sophisticated equipment to watch children

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