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Standardised Do Not Track rule for advertisers moves closer as W3C agrees...
A standardised Do Not Track online policy has moved a step closer after the Tracking Protection Working Group (W3C) agreed a draft consensus document outlining what the policy should entail. After two...
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Parliamentary Committee rules GCHQ spying program with NSA's PRISM was legal
Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) has issued a report into the legality of the intelligence gathering and information sharing by using the NSA’s PRISM program. The report states...
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Apple, Facebook, and Google all sign letter to the White House demanding...
Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple and a plethora of other technology companies and civil rights groups have all signed a letter addressed to President Obama, demanding increased transparency of the...
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Lord Selsdon to face inquiry for breach of data protection laws
Conservative peer Lord Selsdon could be set to face a police inquiry after he said that he traced people who littered and phoned them up to reproach them, using contacts at the Driver and Vehicle...
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IgnitionOne appoints Simon Haynes UK MD following buyout from Dentsu
IgnitionOne has appointed Digilant Media’s Simon Haynes as UK managing director following its management-led buyout from parent company Dentsu. Haynes was UK managing director of Digliant Media,...
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Bradley Manning acquitted of aiding the enemy, but guilty of espionage, after...
Bradley Manning was found not guilty of aiding the enemy by Judge Col. Denise Lind today, 30 July, however he was convicted on several other counts. Manning, an army private, admitted to sending...
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The NSA knows much more about you than you think
New Edward Snowden revelations show that the NSA intercepts far more communications than previously thought. NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden’s revelations that the US government essentially monitors...
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Soca chairman steps down over links to private investigations firm
The Serious Organised Crime Agency is today facing renewed calls to publish the names of over 100 firms which employed rogue private investigators after its chairman, Sir Ian Andrews, stepped down for...
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Wikimedia hits back at NSA surveillance by turning on the ‘secure’ switch for...
Wikimedia has responded to the latest leak regarding NSA’s XKeyscore programme - which suggested the government agency was actively looking at what people read on Wikipedia - by turning on the...
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"Do Not Track" setback as privacy advocate resigns Working Group
Advocate for DO NOT TRACK working group resigns after failing to progress to a technological standard. The Atlantic Ocean is commonly referred to as the ‘pond’, signifying the relatively small...
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BP and Tesco among first brands to join RBS/NatWest cashback loyalty scheme
BP, Cineworld and Tesco are among the first brands to join a new debit-card loyalty scheme from Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and NatWest. The reward scheme, called Cashback Plus, lets customers earn...
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Advertisers welcome Ad2One’s lead on ad misplacement crackdown
Advertisers have welcomed Ad2One’s move to receive independent verification for its brand safety policies as part of a new IPA-ISBA-led initiative aimed at protecting brands from ad misplacement. The...
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IAB moves to quell confusion around online ad regulations in site revamp
The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) is upping its efforts to help advertisers stay ahead of online ad regulations and policies with a website revamp. The body has launched a Digital Policy Guide,...
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US intelligence 'regularly' access smartphone and laptop cameras
US law-enforcement officials are “routinely” tapping into the microphones of smartphone users, according to revelations in court documents that have come to light in criminal cases, the Wall Street...
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Concern over State policy to name and shame fine defaulters
A government website in Australia has adopted a policy of publicly naming and shaming people online who have failed to pay State Government fines. Western Australia’s state Attorney-General Michael...
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Founders of Pirate Bay are building a messaging app where “'no one can listen...
One of the founders of the Pirate Bay is building a mobile application with end-to-end encryption so that only the sender and recipient can gain access to the messages sent across the network. In...
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AOP chair calls for more publishers to embrace private ad exchanges to...
Publishers should follow in News Corp’s footsteps and embrace private exchanges to wrestle back control of digital ad trading, according to chairman of the Association of Online Publishers (AOP) John...
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'Life-Logging' camera that takes photo every 30 seconds shrugs off privacy...
Following the pioneering work of Microsoft engineer Gordon Bell, a young Swedish entrepreneur has shrugged off any privacy concerns and launched a new camera that takes a picture every thirty seconds....
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BPI to meet with David Cameron in attempt to resurrect controversial Digital...
Record companies are upset that the Digital Economy Act, designed to help combat piracy, has yet to be implemented despite becoming law in 2010. In a move seen as an attempt to resurrect the Digital...
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Why regulating pornography is harder than it sounds
It’s been a quiet couple of weeks since David Cameron announced plans for filtering pornography on the internet. Although the media attention has died down dramatically, I lay out the argument of why...
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