Tim(s)
You will have to be a little patient, as the Information Commissioner
will be releasing his Annual Report in about a week
and that no doubt will generate some press coverage of his activities,
as will as re-igniting the issue of why the proposed custodial penalties
for illegally obtaining personal data should not (of course) apply to
journalists!
Bob Waixel.
PS Past, Present and future apologies for confusing your identities.
Tim Trent wrote:
> The DP list is slow today. I've been responding to Tim Turner off
> list since I thought he'd replied off list. Ah well.
>
> A synopsis of my replies is that it was "big news" for a day or so,
> but seems not to have made it into the public searching patterns.
> Privacy International seems to preach to the choir, mainly, nowadays,
> which is a great shame. It is thus "not interesting" to those outside
> the sphere of privacy experts, and those experts tend not to search
> for news about it.
>
> The article was really sabre rattling and Google Bashing, and people
> seem more and more immune to that. It made headlines, but there was
> little substance behind them
>
> Tim Turner wrote:
>
>> There was massive (and slightly overblown in my opinion) web coverage
>> of Privacy International's ranking of privacy-friendly companies and
>> the ensuing spat with Google (who came bottom in PI's opinion).Given
>> that this happened in June:
>> http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd%5B347%5D=x-347-553961 perhaps
>> you're using wrong search techniques?
>>
>> I would have thought that "large international pressure groups has
>> public row with largest search engine over privacy" is privacy news?
>>
>> Tim Turner
>> Data Protection / FOI Officer
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>> Subject: [data-protection] I know all of us are perfect (!)
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>> I spend more than a little time trawling the net and media for "big
>> news" on the compliance and the privacy fronts. There seems to be no
>> "big story" currently, nor has there been for several months. I
>> monitor this in part with search keywords in Google that lead to
>> Compliance and Privacy (link in the footer. Come to that, while
>> you're in the footer, do look at the Cutty Sark item! [you could save
>> that for Friday if you like])
>>
>> We get the following keyword searches in descending order (my
>> comments in parentheses):
>>
>> * Verichip (human implantable RFID chips)
>> * b4usearch (yes, STILL!)
>> * pump and dump (stock market price hike scam)
>> * brett issitt (Seems he is an alleged VAT fraudster who appears
>> nowhere on the site!)
>> * MiFID Outsourcing (pretty much irrelevant to this list)
>> * rebecca wong (privacy blogger and lecturer in law)
>> * ssl vpn encryption strength (technical stuff on communications
>> networks)
>> * brandprotect (A company in - yes - Brand Protection)
>> * rock phish (a phishing gang)
>> * wireless skimmer (device to rip data off your bank cards)
>>
>> Are we and people like us so good now that there is just no privacy
>> news? Or is it that people have stopped caring? Only 2 in the top
>> 10 searches are on privacy. Possibly 3 with the SSL VPN item.
>>
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