Here is an interesting article to read over breakfast this Sunday. How the UK Government needs to intrude into your privacy. The UK’s Secretive Web Surveillance Program Is Ramping Up | WIRED UK I am not comfortable with the argument that if you have not done anything wrong, then you …
AirTag stalking – could it be a thing of the past?
I have written about the privacy issues surrounding Apple AirTags and similar gadgets. They were originally made to enable careless people (like me) find our keys and other things that get misplaced. It did not take people long to realise they could also track people with them. This is a …
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Over two hundred thousand phone calls recorded
It appears neither the police or the people being recorded knew what was being done or what personal information was being saved. Brit cops rapped over app that recorded 200k phone calls – The Register The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has ruled against Surrey and Sussex Police for using the Another Call …
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What Musk had to say to the BBC.
There has been a lot of negative press about Twitter lately – I have covered it on Smart Thinking – this interview by James Clayton, the BBC North America tech reporter, is worth listening to as it is Elon Musk’s own words about Twitter and the state the company is …
Live Facial Recognition and Your Privacy
This is a very interesting article by Stephen Bonner, the Information Commissioner Ofiice’s Deputy Commissioner for Regulatory Supervision, discussing the ICO’s process in it’s decisions around Facewatch’s products that use live facial recognition (LFR). Blog: Balancing people’s privacy rights with the need to prevent crime | ICO It is worth …