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The European Commission last week suggested some serious reforms to data protection laws last that could have implications for everyone that uses the Internet or provides services over the Internet, including CSPs. For a start, companies operating over the Internet will have to seek explicit consent from users if they plan to use data about them, including when it is being collected, how long it will be stored, and for what purpose it is being used for. (Sounds a bit like Google’s new privacy... -
Despite fighting extradition proceedings in the UK and being unofficially declared public enemy number one by U.S. authorities embarrassed by his previous disclosures, WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange has now turned his attention to personal privacy, or lack of it. You might wonder why the master of exposing confidential diplomatic messages has turned his attention to personal privacy, and you’d be right in asking. Well, considering how much press the privacy issue is getting of late, especially... -
It seems The Insider is not the only one ‘frightened by Facebook’. You may recall reading about his fears way back in March of this year, but it now seems others are feeling the same way. In an article published over the weekend in Australia’s ‘National Times’, deputy editor Julian Lee spared no punches in his assessment of Facebook’s growing power as an information gatherer. He wrote, “If Facebook was a government agency, its power would be as undisputed... -
With all the coverage The Insider has given to privacy issues you would think he was obsessed by it. It started with Google’s Street View Wi-Fi data collection exercise , then people unknowingly exposing themselves on Facebook , the Sony/Citi/CIA site hacking , followed by Apple’s location tracking drama and, most recently, with headline news about phone hacking and pinging . It seems my ‘Big Brother’ complex and a morbid fear that the telecoms industry may join the ranks... -
First we had to endure the discomfort of phone ‘hacking’ revelations brought to light by the News of the World (NotW) demise. Now find that illegal ‘pinging’ is rife and it could well get some operators into strife. ‘Pinging’, by the way, is the locating of mobile phone’s position using cell tower triangulation. Yes, many CSPs offer this as an LBS (Location Based Service), but the level of location tracking ‘pinging’ refers to is usually reserved... -
KPN, the Dutch incumbent telecoms operator, has come under fire for admitting that it used deep-packet inspection (DPI) to investigate if customers were using instant messaging applications on its network. It didn’t take long for civil rights activists to make claims that it was ‘theoretically possible’ for the operator to read the content of that traffic. So what’s news about that? National security organizations around the world have been doing that for years and, in many... -
We are living in an age of ‘instantiality.’ Don’t bother looking up the word, it doesn’t exist, I just made it up. The Insider is grappling with an overload of sickening images and news of human tragedy that has been transmitted from Japan constantly and seconds after the big quake struck. It has been a week of ‘instant and constant reality’ via every form of communication we have at our disposal. We have all starting becoming used to the ‘instantiality’... -
Facebook is hot, but The Insider is going cold on it. Maybe it’s an age thing, but the buzz has waned to the point of disinterest. News that almost half the UK population now uses Facebook , 30 million, is mind-boggling. What is even more daunting is that more than half of them use Facebook daily. Haven’t they got better things to do? It’s not just the UK. France is reporting 20 million users and Italy 16 million. No wonder businesses are now jumping on board trying to attract the... -
I’m almost embarrassed to admit that I was starting to believe that telecoms regulators around the world were relaxing their draconian grip on an industry that has, for the most part, been ‘deregulated’ in some form or another for best part of thirty years. Before you start asking what I’ve been smoking, let me point out that, to my knowledge, we no longer have any countries with PTT monopolies in place. Apparently, that’s where deregulation stops. Freer competition in the market does NOT mean less... -
How would you feel if someone was sitting outside your house and tracking details of your Wi-Fi IP address and your usage and recording the details, for no plausible reason? Would you consider it a breach of your privacy or an accepted risk of using wireless technology in the home? If it’s the former then you will be in sync with privacy organizations in Australia who were perturbed to discover that Google was doing just this whilst undertaking its already controversial Street View project. Along...
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