Interception and Surveillance

Service	Description
BT admits tracking 18,000 users with Phorm systems in 2006	as part of a secret trial to analyse the web traffic of its broadband customers, and then serve selected adverts on a number of selected websites. Report from the Guardian.
Is the government creating a 'surveillance society'?	The Information Commissioner stated that UK is in danger of ‘sleepwalking into a surveillance society’. See the arguments..
Korean government takes crackdown strategy online	korea beef import demonstrationsAfter the brutal suppression of popular demonstrations against South Korea’s new US beef import deal, the government is requesting that portals delete dissident blog postings.
Leading surveillance societies in the EU and the World 2007	Privacy International release their report on privacy in 2007. The UK is highlighted as one of the worst countries, described as "endemic surveillance societies".
Leak reveals details of eBorders trial routes.	The IBM pilot will track passengers from 10 international routes by April.
MPs critical of ID cards plan.	A Commons Science and Technology Committee report finds that Home Office consultation on its proposed biometric identity cards programme has been too restricted and its cost estimates may be unreliable.
MPs warn of gaps in ID card plans	The Home Affairs Select Committee say details are too thin and there are potential risks to personal freedom.
Net censorship spreads worldwide.	Repressive regimes are taking full advantage of the net’s ability to censor and stifle reform and debate, reveals a report from Reporters Without Borders (RSF) to mark Press Freedom Day.
Privacy International	Privacy International (PI) is a human rights group formed in 1990 as a watchdog on surveillance and privacy invasions by governments and corporations. PI is based in London, England, and has an office in Washington, D.C.
Privacy International launches campaign to suspend unlawful activities of finance giant.	The privacy watchdog organisation Privacy International has filed simultaneous complaints with Data Protection and Privacy regulators in 33 countries concerning recent revelations of secret disclosures of millions of records from the banking giant SWIFT to US intelligence agencies. The disclosures, undertaken on the grounds of counter-terrorism, involve the mass transfer of data from the SWIFT centre in Belgium to the US, and possibly direct access by US authorities both to data held within Belgium and data residing in SWIFT centres worldwide.