UK's surveillance camera commissioner warns government, public bodies, and local authorities, against buying Chinese-made CCTV cameras
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Local Councils Cannot ‘Guarantee’ Your Personal Data Is Safe
Report from privacy campaigners at Big Brother Watch show there were 4,236 data breach incidents between 2011 and 2014 in local government
Ex-GCHQ Head And David Blunkett Call For Spying Transparency
Former Home secretary David Blunkett and ex-director of GCHQ Sir David Omand both say the intelligence agency should be more transparent
Internet Freedom Activists Plead For Amendments To Press Regulation
From Cambridge University researchers to rights groups, bloggers are deeply worried ahead of the crucial Lords vote on Monday
RSA 2012: Art Coviello – Privacy Advocates Use ‘Dangerous Reasoning’
RSA chief and privacy groups at loggerheads over access to citizens' data
BBC Under Fire For Secret Use Of RIPA Surveillance Powers
Broadcaster just one of many publicly-funded firms keeping schtum about use of RIPA
UK Police Clueless On DNA Databases
Big Brother Watch finds police are keeping lots of DNA data on innocent people
‘Snooper’s Charter’ Becomes Draft Bill In Queen’s Speech
Plans to allow GCHQ to watch over all of the UK's communications data are formalised in the Queen's Speech