She said: "These initiatives have led to a noticeable shift in the balance between respect for an individual's private life and the needs of society to protect itself against such criminal actions. France also criticised plans to extend the scope...
On the positive side, somewhat more attention is being given to privacy issues when it comes to new areas of connected computing such as web services, grid computing and the mining of complex databases.
This is significant, because it ensures that American citizens on American soil will not become targets of TIA surveillance programmes that could have seriously violated their privacy. The legislation, which still must be approved by the Senate...
The letter has been signed by organisations from 21 countries including the American Library Association, the UK's Foundation for Information Policy Research, the Consumer Federation of America, the Australian Privacy Foundation and the Fédération...
Blair also claimed the current climate had lessened privacy concerns and that there "is no longer a civil liberties objection". The terrorist threat to the UK will lead to ID cards will be introduced "more quickly than even we anticipated...
By the 1970s many thinkers had a concern about government and corporations building massive data warehouses monitoring every aspect of an individual's life and tracking and analysing that person's every step.