British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was among representatives of the EU G6 group of European member-states and US Ministers earlier this month to discuss plans to search the content of your hard-drive remotely, possibly using deep packet inspection, trojans and other spyware to search the contents of computers for offensive images, evidence of terrorism and [...]

In a bid to tackle a loophole in government spying powers, UK residents will soon be forced to present their passport and register on a national database when they buy a mobile phone.
Registration on the database, which will include personally identifyable information will be mandatory, and will be made available to law enforcement and MI5 [...]

A privacy group led by an outspoken Phorm opponent, Alex Hanff, is planning to picket an annual shareholder meeting held by BT, the UKs largest ISP and telecoms company, who have faced fierce opposition to secret trials of Phorms Open Internet Exchange (OIX) program, an invasive scheme that profiles user browsing habits to deliver contextual [...]

After a brief phonecall with a BT representative this morning (who at first, denied all knowledge of Phorm) they finally got tired of my incessant badgering and admitted trials had took place, and when asked when the scheme would be implemented fully, he had this to say…
“..It’s [Phorm] not going ahead apparently. I’m told by [...]

If you’re reading this article from inside the UK (or soon, worldwide) there’s a good chance an advertising company called Phorm is watching your every move, and has been for some time. Three major ISP’s in the UK have been secretly selling your browsing habits to the company as part of a trial, which has [...]

I had a little play with ReachBy this morning, a startup that claims to protect your privacy by storing all your personal details in one place. Wait, that sounds wrong. Let me try again. Reachby protects your personal details by storing them all together on a website. Hang on.. this review isn’t going well at [...]