The Washington Post reports on a recently discovered Facebook bug that could have breached the privacy of users. The bug, which has now been fixed, allowed people to easily access all the wall updates and photos of their Facebook friends regardless of the privacy settings.

Google’s Streetview launched yesterday here in the UK and as expected has caused controversy over privacy issues. The problem is that as usual Google has taken significant steps to protect privacy – but as usual it hasn’t gone quite far enough.
The main privacy worry over Streetview is the identification of individuals who’ve been photographed without [...]

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, widely recognised as the father of the modern web, has warned that online snooping could pose a threat to the integrity of the internet. He’s particularly concerned by the use of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) which he likened to wiretapping.
Sir Tim was speaking before the UK All Parliamentary Group on Communications [...]

The Spanish government plans to disconnect prepaid mobile phone users unless they identify themselves by November. Will other governments follow suit?

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has officially launched its new web site, Surveillance Self-Defence (SSD). The SSD is designed to:
…educate the American public about the law and technology of government surveillance in the United States, providing the information and tools necessary to evaluate the threat of surveillance and take appropriate steps to defend against it
In [...]

The UK press is up in arms today following a new report on the National Security Strategy. The Guardian has gone as far as talking of the end of privacy.
The report, The National Security Strategy: Implications for the UK intelligence community isn’t a government document but is published by the independent Institute for Public Policy [...]

The UK is already the CCTV capital of Europe, possibly the world. Now the surveillance cameras are coming to that most sacred of institutions: the great British pub.
Some pubs have had CCTV cameras for ages – in some areas they’re a necessity to deter trouble. However up to now these have usually been installed at [...]