ORG Press Coverage/2013

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December

2013-12-31 - RT - ‘NSA has carte blanche to hack computers’
Author:RT
Summary: Interview with Jim Killock
Topics: NSA, Surveillance
2013-12-20 - Guardian - Amazon accidentally removes Disney Christmas special from owners' accounts
Author: Alex Hern
Summary: Peter Bradwell quoted
Topics: Amazon
2013-12-19 - The Guardian - Tim Berners-Lee leads call for more transparency over mass surveillance
Author:Alex Hern
Summary: ORG mentioned
Topics: Data protection, Surveillance, Privacy
2013-12-12 - BBC - Porn users targeted by German law firm over copyright
Author:BBC
Summary:Quotes from Peter Bradwell
Topics: Copyright, Online censorship
2013-12-10 - Telegraph blogs - Filtering Islamist and far Right websites is a lousy idea. Here's why
Author: Jamie Bartlett
Summary: ORG's Peter Bradwell mentioned
Topics: Encryption, Online censorship
2013-12-09 - BBCnews -
Author:N/A
Summary: Jim Killock, commented on the five principles of the Reform Government Surveillance group.
Topics: Surveillance, Privacy, Data protection
2013-12-09 - SkyNews -
Author:N/A
Summary: Jim Killock, commented on the five principles of the Reform Government Surveillance group.
Topics:Surveillance, Privacy
2013-12-09 - Guardian Comment is Free - Surveillance debate: we're asking for an end to bulk data collection
Author: Jim Killock
Summary: Article by ORG Executive Director
Topics: ORG, Data protection, Surveillance, Privacy


November

2013-11-28 - PC Pro - Rights group slams "backroom deals" on terror site blocks
Author: Shona Ghosh
Summary: concerning plans to block "extremist" websites
Topics: Online censorship, Security
2013-11-24 - Mirror - Twitter protecting users from electronic snooping with 'impossible to solve' mathematical problem
Author: Keith Perry
Summary: Jim Killock quoted
Topics: Twitter, Surveillance, Privacy
2013-11-15 - Guardian - Conservatives remove WebCameron from YouTube
Author: Alex Hern
Summary: quote from Jim Killock
Topics: YouTube, Online censorship
2013-11-15 - Voice of Russia - Details about Trans-Pacific treaty published by WikiLeaks 'are really important' - expert
Author:
Summary: comments from Peter Bradwell regarding leaks of TPP draft.
Topics: WikiLeaks, Surveillance
2013-11-14 - Wired UK - 'We still don't encrypt server-to-server data' admits Microsoft to EU Committee
Author: Chris Baraniuk
Summary: Jim Killock quoted
Topics: Encryption, Data protection, Surveillance
2013-11-07 - Guardian - Questioning of spy agency chiefs 'wouldn't have scared a puppy'
Author: Peter Walker
Summary: Quote from Jim Killock (given as "spokesman" for some reason) following the first ISC open evidence session.
Topics: Surveillance, Privacy
2013-11-04 - Guardian - Surveillance and open government need not be mutually exclusive
Author: Tamsin Rutter
Summary: coverage of International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance
Topics: Surveillance, Privacy, Data protection


October

2013-10-16 - RT - CrossTalk Internet captured
Author:
Summary: Podcast featuring Jim Killock on NSA scandals
Topics: NSA, Surveillance
2013-10-16 - Voice of Russia - NSA snatching your contacts off the wire
Author:
Summary: comments from Jim Killock regarding the capture of "buddy lists" by the NSA
Topics: NSA, Surveillance, Security
2013-10-15 - S4C - Taro 9 - Bwlio ar y We
Author:
Summary: Includes Jim Killock talking about online bullying at around 21.30 minutes. (Cymraeg, English subtitles)
Topics: Online censorship, Digital rights
2013-10-08 - PC World - Campaigners crowdfund bid to take UK to human rights court over Prism spying
Author: Loek Essers
Summary: News on the campaign to take the UK government to court over surveillance, ORG referenced
Topics:Surveillance, Digital rights, Privacy, Data protection, GCHQ
2013-10-04 - Ars Technica - European organizations file lawsuit against UK over vast digital surveillance
Author: Cyrus Farivar
Summary: News on the campaign to take the UK government to court over surveillance, ORG referenced
Topics: Surveillance, Digital rights, Privacy, Data protection, GCHQ
2013-10-04 - Independent - Liberties groups to take GCHQ to court over web privacy
Author: Charlotte McDonald-Gibson
Summary: News on the campaign to take the UK government to court over surveillance, ORG referenced
Topics: Surveillance, Digital rights, Privacy, Data protection, GCHQ
2013-10-04 - New York Times - Britain: Online Surveillance Challenged
Author: Steven Erlanger
Summary: News on the campaign to take the UK government to court over surveillance, ORG referenced
Topics: Surveillance, Digital rights, Privacy, Data protection, GCHQ
2013-10-03 - Guardian - GCHQ faces legal challenge in European court over online privacy
Author: Matthew Taylor & Nick Hopkins
Summary: News on the campaign to take the UK government to court over surveillance, ORG referenced
Topics: Surveillance, Digital rights, Privacy, Data protection, GCHQ
2013-10-03 - TechWeekEurope - Privacy Bodies Take GCHQ Snooping Fight To EU Court
Author: Thomas Brewster
Summary: Coverage of https://www.privacynotprism.org.uk
Topics: Privacy, GCHQ, Surveillance, European Union


September

2013-09-23 - Bright and Hove News - Murdoch’s nemesis to address Brighton audience about internet bugging threat
Author:
Summary: Brighton event
Topics: Surveillance, Digital rights, Privacy
2013-09-05 - RT - Internet surveillance attacks our privacy and right to information
Author:
Summary: Jim Killock interviewed
Topics: Surveillance, Digital rights, Privacy, Data protection
2013-09-15 - CNN - Give Apple your fingerprint? It's your call
Author: Jim Killock
Summary: Jim Killock opinion article

Topics: Apple, Biometrics,


July

2013-07-17 - Wired UK - Cameron's proposed filters extend to more than just porn
Author: Duncan Geern
Summary: Jim Killock quoted on the problems with filters
Topics: Online censorship
2013-07-27 - RT - Block and a hard place: UK’s online porn filter raises more issues than it solves
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Summary: ORG mentioned in reference to online filters and VPN
Topics: Online censorship
2013-07-26 - Gizmodo - The Great Firewall of Cameron Won’t Just Block Porn
Author: Sam Gibbs
Summary: ORG mentioned in reference to online filters and VPN
Topics: Online censorship
2013-07-26 - The Atlantic - How Much Porn Does the U.K. Porn Ban Ban if Doesn't Just Ban Porn?
Author: Rebecca Greenfield
Summary: ORG mentioned in reference to online filters and VPN
Topics: Online censorship
2013-07-26 - TorrentFreak - UK Porn Filter Will Censor Other Content Too, ISPs Reveal
Author:
Summary: Coverage of ORG blog post on UK web filter agreement
Topics: Online censorship
2013-07-22 - .net magazine - UK web ‘porn’ filtering could damage web industry
Author: Craig Grannell
Summary: ORG mentioned in reference to online filters and VPN
Topics: Online censorship
2013-07-22 - Channel 4 - Cameron's porn opt-in: your reactions
Author:
Summary: quotes Jim Killock
Topics:Online censorship
2013-07-22 - Wall Street Journal - U.K. to Require Adult Web Content Opt-In
Author: Ben Rooney
Summary: Jim Killock quoted
Topics: Online censorship, Online age verification
2013-07-21 - BBC News - David Cameron urges internet firms to block child abuse images
Author:
Summary: Jim Killock quoted
Topics: Online censorship
2013-07-17 - Guardian - Privacy campaigners demand review of snooping laws
Author: Nick Hopkins and Alan Travis
Summary: Covers ORG request for S97A blocking orders.
Topics: Surveillance, Digital rights, Privacy, Data protection
2013-07-17 - Inquirer - Open Rights Group wants access to ISP web blocking documents
Author: Dave Neal
Summary: Covers ORG request for S97A blocking orders.
Topics: Online censorship, Digital rights


June

2013-06-29 - Independent - More companies put data about their customers on sale
Author: Chiara Cavglieri
Summary: ORG quoted on the aggregating and anonymising of people's data
Topics: Data protection
2013-06-27 - Guardian - Snooper's charter has practically zero chance of becoming law, say senior MPs
Author: Alan Travis
Summary: coverage of ORG meeting at parliament
Topics: Surveillance, Digital rights, Privacy, Data protection, Security
2013-06-21 - BBC News - Premier League seeks ISP site block in piracy swoop
Author: Dave Lee
Summary: Jim Killock quoted
Topics: Copyright, Online censorship
2013-06-10 - Express - William Hague: UK intelligence agencies work within 'strict legal and ethical frameworks'
Author: Owen Bennett
Summary: Jim Killock quoted.
Topics: Surveillance, Digital rights, Privacy, Data protection, Security, Encryption
2013-06-07 - FT - Spy claims intensify UK debate over internet regulation (£)
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Summary:
Topics: Surveillance, Digital rights, Privacy, Data protection, Encryption
2013-06-08 - Inquirer - Open Rights Group wants Parliamentary investigation into UK PRISM
Author: Dave Neal
Summary: ORG and Jim Killock quoted on the need for PRISM to be investigated
Topics: Surveillance, Digital rights, Privacy, Data protection, PRISM


May

2013-05-15 - Out-Law - Consent should be needed for anonymised data sharing to be lawful, say campaigners
Author:
Summary: Covers ORG blog post
Topics: Data protection, Privacy, Security
2013-05-13 - CNET UK - EE denies personal data offered to police by partner
Author: Rich Trenholm
Summary: ORG blog quoted
Topics: Data protection, Privacy, Security
2013-05-08 - Inquirer - Snoopers’ Charter limps back into the Queen’s Speech
Author: Dave Neal
Summary: Jim Killock quoted
Topics: Data protection, Privacy, Security, Surveillance
2013-05-08- Politics. UK- What future for Britain's surveillance laws
Author: Peter Sommer
Summary: An extract on ORG's Digital Surveillance Report
Topics: Data protection, Privacy, Security, Surveillance
2013-00-00- Left Foot Forwards - The Snoopers Charter would make us a nation of suspects
Author: Rachel Robinson
Summary: An extract on ORG's Digital Surveillance Report
Topics: Data protection, Privacy, Security, Surveillance
2013-05-02 -Liberal Conspiracy - Why digital technology poses a problem for surveillance law
Author: Peter Sommer
Summary: An extract on ORG's Digital Surveillance Report
Topics: Data protection, Privacy, Security, Surveillance
2013-05-01 - New Statesman - Snoopers Charter showed just what government's are capable of
Author: Dr Richard Clayton
Summary: An extract on ORG's Digital Surveillance Report
Topics: Data protection, Privacy, Security, Surveillance
2013-05-01 - Liberal Democrats Voice - The independent view, data preservation instead of data retention
Author: Caspar Bowden
Summary:
Topics: Surveillance, Data protection, Privacy, Security

http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/open-rights-group/uk-surveillance-law-warning-and-call-for-different-future

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Summary:
Topics: Surveillance, Data protection, Privacy, Security

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mediapolicyproject/2013/04/30/the-draft-communications-data-bill-inflating-the-scope-and-increasing-the-harms-of-existing-surveillance-law/

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Summary:
Topics:Data protection, Privacy, Surveillance, Security

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-04/30/open-rights-group-snoopers-charter

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Summary:
Topics: Data protection, Privacy, Security, Surveillance

http://boingboing.net/2013/04/29/227134.html

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Summary:
Topics:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130501/05454922906/digital-surveillance-report-exposes-short-sightedness-uk-law-making-shows-way-forward.shtml

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Summary:
Topics: Data protection, Privacy, Security, Surveillance

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3415/the_latest_on_the_snoopers_charter

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Summary:
Topics: Surveillance, Data protection, Privacy, Security


April

http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/privacy-facebook-eu-lobbying-report-114453

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Summary:
Topics: Data protection, Privacy, Security, Surveillance
2013-04-08 - BBC News - Paris Brown: Could 'right to be forgotten' help?
Author: Zoe Kleinman
Summary: Jim Killock explains that Right to be forgotten isn't about removing historic memory
Topics: Google, Data protection, Privacy
2013-04-08 - Guardian - Roundup: Public managers – censored
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Summary: round-up of live chat that Jim Killock participated in
Topics: Online censorship, Digital rights, Data protection, Privacy, Security, Surveillance
2013-04-03 - BBC Radio 4 - Bringing up Brtain: Parenting and Pornography
Presenter: Mariella Frostrup
Summary: "As pornography becomes more available to youngsters through the internet and mobiles, Mariella Frostrup and guests discuss how we can best equip the next generation to deal with it."
Topics: Online censorship, Copyright


March

2013-03-20 - Independent - New York Times says Royal Charter harms free speech
Author:
Summary: Simon Phipps blog article mentioned.
Topics: Free speech, Online censorship
2013-03-02 - Channel 4 News - Amazon removes offensive 'Keep Calm and Hit Her' T-shirts
Author:
Summary: Jim Killock quoted on news item and separate video piece
Topics: Amazon
2013-02-01 - Techdirt - Why Is The UK Blocking Access To Sites Without Any Hearings?
Author:
Summary: ORG blog quoted
Topics: Online censorship, Digital rights
2013-03-01 - Wired UK - High Court orders blocks on three filesharing sites
Author: Philippa Warr
Summary: Jim Killock quoted
Topics: Online censorship, Digital rights


February

2013-02-28 - TorrentFreak - High Court Orders UK ISPs to Block Kickass Torrents, H33T and Fenopy
Author: "enigmax"
Summary: Jim Killock quoted
Topics: Online censorship, Digital rights
2013-02-24 - TorrentFreak - BitTorrent Site Admin Hits Out at UK Music Industry Site Blocking Demand
Author: "enigmax"
Summary: quote from ORG blog
Topics: Online censorship, Digital rights
2013-02-21 - V3 - Outrage as MEPs accused of amending data law proposals after Google and Amazon lobbying
Author: Dan Worth
Summary: Peter Bradwell quoted
Topics: Amazon, Google,Data protection
2013-02-21 - Tech Week - BT Lobbyists Try To Water Down EU Privacy Legislation
Author: Tom Brewster
Summary: Peter Bradwell quoted
Topics: European Union, Privacy, Surveillance
2013-02-19 - PC Pro - BPI wants to block more music download sites
Author: Stewart Mitchell
Summary: ORG quoted
Topics: Copyright, Online censorship, Digital rights
2013-02-19 - Computer World - British music industry bids to block three more file-sharing sites
Author: Loek Essers
Summary: ORG quoted and plan to recruit legal officer mentioned
Topics: Copyright, Online censorship, Digital rights
2013-02-08 - Mail - Snap happy! Freedom of speech is a human right - and it trumps copyright, Strasbourg judges rule
Author: Kate Bevan
Summary: Jim Killock quoted
Topics: Copyright, Free speech, Digital rights, Online censorship
2013-02-06 - Mail - UK government plans to track ALL web use: MI5 to install 'black box' spy devices to monitor British internet traffic
Author: Damien Gayle
Summary: Jim Killock quoted
Topics: Surveillance, Privacy, Security, Data protection, MI5


January

2013-01-24 - TruthLoader - Is trying to stop online piracy a waste of time?
Author:
Summary: Jim Killock interviewed alongside Richard Mollett, Harry Percival and Joe Karagensis
Topics: Copyright, Online censorship
2013-01-22 - bdaily - Innovation, not legislation for creative industries
Author:
Summary: Report on ORG appearance at Culture, Media and Sport Committee.
Topics:Free speech, ORG,
2013-01-22 - Wired - US data privacy advocates head to Brussels in show of support
Author:
Summary: Jim Killock quoted (via earlier article)
Topics: Data protection, Privacy, Surveillance
2013-01-17 - Infosecurity - Nominet's proposals for a more secure domain suffix under fire
Author:
Summary: ORG quoted
Topics: Encryption, Security
2013-01-16 - ComputerWeekly - Campaigners oppose Nominet plans for secure .uk domain
Author: Warwick Ashford
Summary: ORG quoted
Topics: Encryption, security
2013-01-15 - Telegraph - Childrens charities oppose Nominet plan for 'secure' .uk wed addresses
Author: Christopher Williams
Summary: ORG and Jim Killock quoted
Topics: Security, Encryption
2013-01-12 - Technewsworld - The UK's tangled antipiracy web
Author: David Vranicar
Summary: Jim Killock quoted (podcast on page)
Topics: Copyright, Online censorship
2013-01-10 - Out-Law - Digital rights campaigners warn of Nominet gaining 'monopoly over trust and security' with new .uk domain offering
Author:
Summary: ORG quoted
Topics: Digital rights, Privacy, security
2013-01-09 - Techdirt - Church site blocked by Mobile networks, classified under 'alcohol'
Author: Glyn Moody
Summary: ORG quoted
Topics: Online censorship
2013-01-09 - BlueKai - Chruch site blocked by mobile networks, classified under 'alcohol'
Author:
Summary: ORG uncover another block
Topics: ORG, Online censorship
2013-01-07 - B2fxxx - Digital Rights Cyberlaw Clinics
Author: Ray Corrigan
Summary: Mentions ORG & Goldeneye case
Topics: Digital rights, ORG
2013-01-07 - Telecompaper - Virgin, Orange block access to online gift shop
Author: Online censorship, Digital rights, ORG
Summary:Mentions ORG, who accuse Virgin and Orange of blocking access to 'foreverandeternity.co.uk.'
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2013-01-04 - Telegraph - Facebook terms and conditions: why you don't own your online life
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Summary:
Topics: Online censorship, Digital rights, ORG
2013-01-04 - Independent.ie - Facebook’s terms and conditions mean you don't really own your online life
Author: Oliver Smith
Summary: ORG explain problems with T&Cs
Topics: Security, Facebook, ORG, Privacy
2013-01-04 - ISPReview - UPD Virgin Mobile and Orange UK Ignore Wrongful Block of Online Gift Shop
Author: Mark Jackson
Summary: ORG uncover block, Peter Bradwell quoted
Topics: Online censorship, Digital rights, ORG
2013-01-02 - Telegraph - CD and DVD sales plunge as downloads surge to £1billion
Author: Matt Warman
Summary: Jim Killock quoted
Topics: Copyright
2013-01-02 - TechWeekEurope - Digital Sales Smash £1bn Barrier In 2012
Author: Tom Brewster
Summary:
Topics: Copyright
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