As I have previously covered in the EU makes police hacking legal post Europe is making moves to give police forces new powers to spy on anyone’s home or business computers. This is now being implemented in the UK, and is being picked up by more mainstream sources such as BBC...

As part of a 5 year action plan to 'combat the growth in cyber theft and spam' the EU have granted Europol £250,000 to create a system to allow european police forces to share data with each other which they have gained be illegal means. Obviously they worded it slightly better than I...

Splattered across the internet, like a psychopath with a paintball gun, are targeted adverts. These advertising systems - usually ran by the major search engines such as Google, Microsoft (live), Yahoo search etc. - use cookies and other technology to track your browsing habits. The...

Much has been said and written about RFID tags - and the threat they pose to our privacy. So, what are they? RFID chips are small microchips (often smaller than a grain of sand) with an antennae connected which allows them to broadcast data over short distances. Most often they are un-powered...

As I have posted in the forum here the new Counter Terrorism Bill is currently in the House of Lords, and the implications of this bill on our freedoms are great. Fitwatch haveissued a 'call to arms' the following was posted on IndyMedia here : 'The new Counter Terrorism Bill,...

[this article appears as it was written for the October issue of my school newspaper]    Google, the Olympian God of the Internet, announced on September 7, 2008 of its potential plans to move its entire server database out to sea. The plan is for the databases to be...

Certainly moderns society has gotten used to just throwing anything they need into the search engine titan Google. Society's addiction to the king of search engines has lead to the acceptance of the two word combo "Google It" as an actual verb in the english language. To be...

"I am the LAW!" From the BBC : "Europeans suspected of putting movies and music on file-sharing networks could be thrown off the web under proposals before Brussels. The powers are in a raft of laws that aim to harmonise the regulations governing...

From the BBC : "Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court has ruled. The ruling comes as part of Google's legal battle with Viacom over allegations of copyright infringement. Digital rights group...

Another interesting article by Bill Thompson for the BBC : Please read the whole article on the BBC site, but some interesting extracts are: "The issue was recently highlighted by reports that the Canadian government has a policy of not allowing public sector IT projects...

From BBC : Ministers are to consider plans for a database of electronic information holding details of every phone call and e-mail sent in the UK, it has emerged. The plans, reported in the Times, are at an early stage and may be included in the draft Communications Bill...

This one is going to burn up like rocket fuel! (A joke for the chemists among you). Now, I know many of the readers are not technophiles like me, so I shall try to keep this simple – JavaFX is a programming language – a ‘new’ version of Java if you will. It is being...

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This has been known about for a while - but as the BBC have 'just exposed it' I thought I would post it here for the people who have not heard. From BBC : Personal details of Facebook users could potentially be stolen, the BBC technology programme Click has found. The...