Free societies turn their backs on privacy at their own risk, for privacy is one of the fundamental rights from which all other human rights are derived. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or...
US privacy campaigner Richard Smith has abandoned his focus on privacy rights to concentrate on security issues. Since the terror attacks, security issues have been given much more prominence than privacy.
Companies worried about staff or visitors using camera phones to secretly take pictures in places like swimming pools and changing rooms will soon be able to automatically disable the imaging system inside certain handsets when they enter a...
When it came to privacy, the government was keen to give a little with one hand and take back a hefty wodge with the other these past 12 months. Public opinion was divided over the subject, with privacy groups up in arms, online opinion going over...
The National Consumer Council (NCC) has called on government and businesses to put privacy at the heart of RFID technology or risk a consumer backlash that could set back adoption of the technology. One of the Council's main concerns is that the...
The UK's privacy tsar has made a plea to the government not to rush through a centralised database of all UK communications. Thomas said privacy was already being quietly eroded, citing examples of the expansion of the DNA database and the...