It doesn’t take much of an imagination to see the opportunities the scheme offers to hostile powers.
A row over who should authorise investigatory powers hangs over the draft legislation the Government is set to publish.
Renate Samson of the civil liberties group discusses local authorities’ negligence with private information.
It may suit the industry to assume that our time, peace and concentration has no value – but obviously it does.
In a few years’ time, mobile phones and computers will seem old hat – and the threats to our liberties will be multiplied.
Serious terrorists won’t use WhatsApp, they will make their own encrypted networks. Here’s how to combat them and preserve our liberties.
“We need to have robust powers…in order to keep our people safe.”
What is required instead is a complete revamp of the legislation that is being used to help govern the communications made on social media platforms.
Snooping, and the fear of it, threaten the future potential of digital advances.
One way or another we’re interacting with systems designed to gather information about who are and what we do.
We may sometimes regret the anonymity of modern life, but would we really have it any other way? To be able to conduct our private business in public spaces is a privilege that most people throughout most of history could not have imagined. In our own day, it is only the famous – or infamous […]
Back in June, the Deep End featured an article about Google 'Glass' – a lightweight computer which you wear like a pair of glasses. Among various other features, Glass enables you to covertly record everything you can see and hear as you go about your business (or as stick your nose into somebody else’s). In […]
Not many people mourn the passing of the old slam-door trains. Yet they did have one useful feature: windows that slid all the way down. This made it much easier to deal with those annoying people who play terrible music through leaky earphones. One could grab hold of them, pull down the window and, just […]
They’re all at it you know. Trying to get hold of your information. Where you shop. What products you prefer. How much you earn. How old you are. No, this isn’t the introduction to some conspiracy theory – it’s a basic fact of modern life. From social networks to supermarket loyalty cards to consumer surveys, […]
Tomorrow, MPs will be asked to opt back in to the agreement. But it is hard to see why we should.