By Simon Davies The question of whether the controversial global security giant G4S is institutionally amoral or merely ambivalent about its societal responsibilities amounts to the same outcome: the company is starting to pollute the global human rights initiatives that it has hypocritically signed up to. With over twelve thousand corporate participants, the most prominent …
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UK privacy groups lodge ICO complaint on Google health data deal
By Simon Davies Several British rights groups have co-authored a complaint to the UK Information Commissioner, alleging that the use of Google cloud services for the processing of health information has created a serious violation of data protection law. The complaint warns that the arrangements leave open the possibility that Google may be processing personal …
Read More...Former NSA contractor warns of “murky” interception arrangements
By Simon Davies __________________________ Update: Sunday June 30, 2013. 17.03 GMT Following a rather turbulent sequence of events in the reporting of this blog by the Observer and Guardian newspapers, coverage can now be found in the Guardian story here. _______________________ A former contractor to the US National Security Agency (NSA) has told the Privacy …
Read More...New Post: Outsourcing Big Brother
By Simon Davies Anxieties over the data relationship between government and corporations are not new. I managed to dig up this piece from the October 1996 edition of Wired (which I thought had been lost to the world) in which I investigate the early days of cloud and outsourcing. I thought it may be an …
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