Re: [ORG-discuss] Brexit White Paper

Thanks Aidan There is little new in the areas we have previously covered: - digital (very muddled and lacking concrete proposals including for telecoms regulation) - security (asking for a completely special deal to maintain the status quo on Europol, EAW, etc. that has already been

Re: [ORG-discuss] Convention 108 reform

Thanks for pointing this out, we just know that the new 108 is meant to be much more aligned with GDPR but have not looked in detail > On 21 Sep 2017, at 10:16, Phil Bradley-Schmieg wrote: > > The new Data Protection Bill is full of Henry VIII clauses, one of which is

Re: [ORG-discuss] UK open WIFI?

Hi Consume was a similar initiative some 17 years ago. James Stevens at deckspace in South london will know better. Can get you in touch -- Please support ORG's work - join and help fund our future: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join To unsubscribe, send a blank email to

Re: [ORG-discuss] EU data retention ruling

We have a detailed blog, please distribute https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2016/eu-court-slams-uk-data-retention-surveillance-regime > On 21 Dec 2016, at 13:48, David Haworth wrote: > > I just spotted this in the news.. > > EU data retention ruling goes against UK

[ORG-discuss] Fwd: This Friday: House of Lords Internet and Children Consultation closing

August 2016 at 18:05:53 CEST > To: Pam Cowburn <p...@openrightsgroup.org>, Javier Ruiz > <jav...@openrightsgroup.org> > > Reminder: if you are thinking about making a submission to the House of Lords > Consultation on 'Children and the Internet' - no matter how brief, it

Re: [ORG-discuss] IPBill

The SNP came out of it as the standard bearers for civil liberties in the UK. Joanna Cheery was very good. Javier -- Please support ORG's work - join and help fund our future: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join To unsubscribe, send a blank email to

[ORG-discuss] Guardian article on DMCA abuse | Revealed: How copyright law is being misused to remove material from the internet

When Annabelle Narey posted a negative review of a building firm on Mumsnet, the last thing on her mind was copyright infringement... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/23/copyright-law-internet-mumsnet signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail --

Re: [ORG-discuss] Good news on FOI?

Yes, good news indeed. In all honesty we have not been as effective at using the FOIA for our campaigning as we should. Partly because systematic requests take a lot of time engaging to and fro and also because a huge proportion of what we do is covered by exemptions, e.g. on national security.

Re: [ORG-discuss] Government to abandon all ideas of trying to ban strong encryption.

Thanks, that’s a good point that is not getting much attention! Javier > On 4 Jan 2016, at 12:09, Ansgar Koene wrote: > > Just wanted to let you all know that I did a lengthy analysis of the IPB on > the CaSMa project blog site. It's split into two sections to

Re: [ORG-discuss] New Surveillance Bill - Limits on the ability of the Internet Service Providers to access and analyse data stored for Government access.

Hi Sivasubramanian, Hi, As Philip already explained, the Privacy of Electronic Communications Regulations- transposing Eu law- protects the confidentiality of communications and bans companies from retaining data beyond business purposes with some exceptions. Javier -- Please support

[ORG-discuss] Openness and Privacy

Dear all I had replied to Martin Tisné’s original post in another list, but I’ll paste it here below for completeness as Chris Taggart was referring to that email in the thread. On the discussion here: Marc Rotenberg has put it quite clearly: privacy is abused by the powerful like any other

Re: [ORG-discuss] GCHQ hacking consultation - respond today!

hi, we explained this development in our report from page 5 https://www.openrightsgroup.org/assets/files/pdfs/reports/gchq/02-Part_One_Chapter_Two-Invasive_Collections.pdf https://www.openrightsgroup.org/assets/files/pdfs/reports/gchq/02-Part_One_Chapter_Two-Invasive_Collections.pdf On 20

[ORG-discuss] Open Government Guide Privacy Chapter

Dear all The chapter on privacy of the Open Gov Guide prepared by Open Rights Group and Privacy International has just been published. Please share! http://www.opengovguide.com/topics/privacy-and-data-protection/ http://www.opengovguide.com/topics/privacy-and-data-protection/ You can make

[ORG-discuss] The race to archive Twitpic before 800 million pictures vanish - The Globe and Mail

Interesting conundrum on privacy, data ownership, historical preservation and access to information http://m.theglobeandmail.com/technology/digital-culture/the-race-to-archive-twitpic-before-800-million-pictures-vanish/article21199755/?service=mobile -- Please support ORG's work - join and help

[ORG-discuss] Fwd: [ogp] FW: NEW STUDY: Classified Information: A review of current legislation across 15 countries the EU

-- Forwarded message -- From: pmcderm...@openthegovernment.org pmcderm...@openthegovernment.org Date: 11 Sep 2014 18:41 Subject: [ogp] FW: NEW STUDY: Classified Information: A review of current legislation across 15 countries the EU To: OGP Civil Society group o...@dgroups.org Cc:

[ORG-discuss] Snowden live streaming this Friday

Edward Snowden will be speaking at the Internet Ungovernance Forum on Friday at 4pm UK time @altbilisim #ungovForum https://iuf.alternatifbilisim.org/ signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -- Please support ORG's work - join and help fund our future:

[ORG-discuss] Culture Secretary threatens search engines with anti-piracy legislation

Culture Secretary threatens search engines with anti-piracy legislation UK Culture Secretary Sajid Javid has made some worrying declarations, threatening search engines with legislation unless they stop sending people to illegal sites”.

[ORG-discuss] Fwd: [Gisw_authors_2014] GISWATCH 2014 and specail report Turkey launched

Hi Please find below the link to download the 2014 Giswatch report. This year the focus is surveillance. Javier Begin forwarded message: From: Roxana Bassi r...@apc.org Subject: [Gisw_authors_2014] GISWATCH 2014 and specail report Turkey launched Date: 2 September 2014 09:37:39 BST To:

Re: [ORG-discuss] Policing by consent in the digital age

The argument about consent is interesting, given we are not informed enough of what is going on to have a meaningful debate. Repeats many of the myths that they rolled out at the parliamentary scrutiny, such as mixing up live data with retention. Why do you need 12 months of all data to urgently