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

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 [...]

PC World reports on a new front opening up in the privacy wars: the EU wants authorities to be able to tap Skype calls.
It’s not just Skype, although they’re the best known provider of internet telephony – Voice Over IP (VOIP) – services. The EU agency Eurojust is concerned that there is currently no legal [...]

Bad news for Canadian residents who value their privacy: this month has already seen three major Big Brother stories from that country.

Campaign group NO2ID has issueed a press release in response to the House of Lords report Surveillance: Citizens and the State.
NO2ID welcomes the report but points out one omission: “The report is silent on the massive information sharing powers in Clause 152 of the Coroners and Justice Bill, currently being debated in Commons Committee”.
Phil Booth [...]

The House of Lords Constitution Committee has released its report entitled Surveillance: Citizens and the State