Privacy assured by UK judge as ruling states law enforcement must use due process

In many of my posts about privacy and governments and organisations that want to reduce encryption, do away with VPN privacy or just make things easy for law enforcement at the expense of the law abiding citizen’s privacy, I refer to law enforcement using due process. UK judges agree with …

UK Government to change the cookie laws – they are too much bother as they are

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Sorry but the headlines below all contain the obvious biscuit pun! Knowing, explicitly, what an organisation plans to do with your personal data when you access a web site or sign up for an online service is an essential step in maintaining your privacy. Have a look at this article …

VPN companies start to vote with their feet when it comes to storing user data in India

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Because of the soon to be law, requirements for VPN companies operating in India, to keep full logs of their user’s activities for five years, so India’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) and law enforcement can have access to them – so removing the levels of privacy that a VPN …

Another good step for better child safety on the internet and for catching the criminals who are involved

This is not a “scan every image you (the law abiding citizen) upload” solution, such as suggested by Apple among others. This is making the unique digital hash evidence of illegal child abuse images and videos available to the Internet Watch Foundation that has the resources to search the internet …