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Britain Moves to Orwellian Surveillance

Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in Opinion, Politics and Government | No Comments »

George Orwell imagined a government that gathered every piece of available information of its citizens. There was constant surveillance, with control of the society as an end goal. ... Read more..

Proposed Surveillance of All Phone Calls and Emails

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 Posted in Opinion, Politics and Government | No Comments »

Britain may be on the verge of taking a further step into the 'Surveillance Society'. Already Britain is awash with surveillance cameras and there is the beginnings of a ... Read more..

Viacom Amends Data Demands

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 Posted in Business, Politics and Government, Technology and Science | No Comments »

A court ruling in early July 2008 stated that Google had to give Viacom the history of viewers on YouTube. It seems that Viacom has reversed its demands: Read more..

Security of the U.S. Passport Data Base

Friday, July 4th, 2008 Posted in Politics and Government, Technology and Science | No Comments »

It seems that the personal, confidential passport information of celebrities, politicians and other well known Americans are breached routinely. The electronic records do not have the purported safeguards to ... Read more..

Court Ruling Renders Google’s Privacy Policy Useless

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in Opinion, Technology and Science | No Comments »

A New York court ruling effectively renders Google's privacy policy useless. Google, the owner of YouTube, must surrender all data about site visitors to YouTube: Read more..

Privacy Ruling by the European Court of Human Rights

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 Posted in Politics and Government | No Comments »

In a lengthy litigation process, the European Court of Human Rights has recognized that the surveillance of telephone communication tramples privacy rights: Read more..

The Bin Police

Sunday, April 27th, 2008 Posted in Opinion, Politics and Government | No Comments »

Britain has been called the "Surveillance Society". There are thousands upon thousands of surveillance cameras monitoring public activity. Citizens are scrutinized and information is entered onto data bases. ... Read more..

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