http://www.bitsbook.com/2008/10/meanwhile-on-the-big-brother-front/ Your Life, Liberty and Happiness After the Digital Explosion Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:16:26 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.bitsbook.com/2008/10/meanwhile-on-the-big-brother-front/comment-page-1/#comment-2320 Blown to Bits » Blog Archive » “Mistakes Happen” Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:21:01 +0000 http://www.bitsbook.com/?p=247#comment-2320 [...] I’ll bet these data breaches are no more common in the UK than in the US, but they certainly have had a bad run of them lately, and you can see why the MP is worried about the government’s plans. [...] [...] I’ll bet these data breaches are no more common in the UK than in the US, but they certainly have had a bad run of them lately, and you can see why the MP is worried about the government’s plans. [...]

]]> http://www.bitsbook.com/2008/10/meanwhile-on-the-big-brother-front/comment-page-1/#comment-2266 Blown to Bits » Blog Archive » Bill Would Require Logs of Internet Use Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:19:36 +0000 http://www.bitsbook.com/?p=247#comment-2266 [...] As we have said before (here and here, for example), the Internet threats to child safety have been mischaracterized and exaggerated, and spending resources on programs like this draws resources away from places where they are badly needed, helping troubled children from troubled families. Bills like this are transparent attempts to exploit the child safety issue to ramp up government data collection about innocent citizens, data that will be repurposed and abused once it has been collected. It’s the kind of Big-Brother surveillance proposed in the UK, as we discussed last fall. [...] [...] As we have said before (here and here, for example), the Internet threats to child safety have been mischaracterized and exaggerated, and spending resources on programs like this draws resources away from places where they are badly needed, helping troubled children from troubled families. Bills like this are transparent attempts to exploit the child safety issue to ramp up government data collection about innocent citizens, data that will be repurposed and abused once it has been collected. It’s the kind of Big-Brother surveillance proposed in the UK, as we discussed last fall. [...]

]]> http://www.bitsbook.com/2008/10/meanwhile-on-the-big-brother-front/comment-page-1/#comment-1229 Blown to Bits » Blog Archive » Eric Holder on Privacy and Data Retention Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:14:43 +0000 http://www.bitsbook.com/?p=247#comment-1229 [...] All that seems to have been gathered from inspecting the computer itself, but the same information might have been obtained from an ISP if it had retained the information, as the British are now proposing to do. [...] [...] All that seems to have been gathered from inspecting the computer itself, but the same information might have been obtained from an ISP if it had retained the information, as the British are now proposing to do. [...]

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