A major database of criminals, victims and other people has been formally launched by the National Policing Improvement Agency, although police forces are already using it.

Jennie Cronin, director of the database programme at the NPIA, has announced the launch of the Police National Database (PND). 

The Police National Database (PND), launched on Wednesday, contains the details of between 10…

Geotime software, bought by the Met, collates data from social networking sites, satnavs, mobiles and financial transactions

Britain's largest police force is using software that can map nearly every move suspects and their associates make in the digital world, prompting an outcry from civil liberties groups.

The Metropolitan police has bought Geotime, a security programme used by the US milit…

The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda.

A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United States Central Command (Centcom), which oversees US armed operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, to develop what is described a…

Richard Stallman talk at IET London ( see http://london.indymedia.org/events/7625 )

Richard Stallman - hacker, founder of the Free Software Movement, activist and theorist for civil rights in the digital age - about politics and practice of free software, discussing a range of issues which have arisen in the digital age : from the oppressive use of ‘copyright' by media corporations and resist…

Richard Stallman - hacker, founder of the Free Software Movement, activist and theorist for civil rights in the digital age, gave a talk at the London's IET on Monday, 7 March 2011.  He spoke about the politics and practice of free software, and he also discussed a range of issues which have arisen in the digital age - from the oppressive use of ‘copyright' by media corporations and resisting dra…

There's some interesting stuff in the article (link below), though they don't even mention the fact that Sukey are the first people, after Aaron Porter, who are trying to divide the protests into 'legitimate' peaceful protesters and 'evil rioters'. Maybe they should rename their tool into 'Sucky'.

(apropos privacy, that article is on a yahoo hosted blog...)

Many of the most popular applications, or "apps," on the social-networking site Facebook Inc. have been transmitting identifying information—in effect, providing access to people's names and, in some cases, their friends' names—to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found.

The issue affects tens of millions of Facebook app users, …

America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon.

In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at usi…

Underscoring the permanence of data published on the internet, a security researcher has compiled the names and URLs of more than 100 million Facebook users and made them available as a BitTorrent download.

Ron Bowles, who describes himself as a certified penetration tester, said he used some hastily written code to harvest the names of more than 100 million users who had set their accounts to be…

The internet puts your privacy at risk. Two main threats to your privacy are search and social networking.



This is especially true for activists, and effects many thousands of Bristolians/

Thankfully we can fix the search problem easily in just a few moments. Using the http://www.scroogle.org/ you will still get Google search results, just without the spying.



Chrome — Wrench icon > Options >…

Sparkled from some articles posted to Indymedia London recently about Non Corporate Social Networks and a report from the Software Summit that took place in Whitechapel, as well as an audio interview to Eben Moglen of the Free Software Foundation also published to this site not long ago,  I share below some of the reasons why I think corporate social nut-workin is so cool!

Various cinemas across London (Brixton / Straford / Notting Hill / Greenwich / Islington ), full details available here.. http://erasingdavid.com/categories/watch-the-film/cinema-release 

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Can the police unlock and operate my phone during a stop and search?

James Welch, Liberty, tells Doveman that, as we now carry so much personal information, it's time to review the police search powers that allow officers to view phone data

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/aug/04/liberty-clinic-stop-search-mobile

London NoBorders and No2ID organised a protest at Lunar House, Croydon, London, HQ of the Borders and Immigration Agency to mark the introduction of Biometric ID cards being issued from today, 25 November 2008, to all non-EU students and spouses applying for, or renewing visas for study or marriage. The cards will have a photograph with name, date of birth, nationality, immigration status and biom…