All Content Related to Data retention

ONI Blog: Can they hear me now? (On ICT regulations, governments, and transparency)
On February 11, Vodafone's global head of content standards, Annie Mullins, revealed that Vodafone handed over communications data to the Egyptian authorities in response to government demands. This data may have been used to help identify rioters who were...
- Posted on 24/Feb/2009; tagged in Arrests and legal action, Data retention, Egypt, Human rights, Legislation, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Privacy, Surveillance -
ONI Blog: English Newspapers Self-Censor on Release of Personal Information
Last week a disgruntled former employee of the far-right British National Party (BNP) leaked his party's membership list to the public, unleashing a torrent of Internet activity as Brits scrambled to find who in their neighborhood might be members. Yet while the...
- Posted on 25/Nov/2008; tagged in Data retention, Europe -
ONI Blog: ONI Affiliate Reveals Chinese Surveillance of Skype Messages
Groundbreaking research by an ONI affiliate made major news today. Nart Villeneuve, a fellow at Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, revealed in a joint Information Warfare Monitor/ONI Asia report Wednesday TOM-Skype, a special software for using Skype in...
- Posted on 02/Oct/2008; tagged in Asia, China, Data retention, ONI, Surveillance -