Joe's Jottings

Tagged: privacy-issues

ACTA - Why is the Government not informing MPs about this Agreement?

· acta, civil-liberties, copyright, globalisation, privacy, personal-stuff, politics, privacy-issues, technology, the-media

Have you heard of ACTA?  How about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement?  No?  Well, you're probably not alone.  After all, here in the UK the Government won't even put documents regarding the Agre…

Blippy - how do you feel about sharing your purchases?

· privacy, entrepreneur-issues, privacy-issues, technology, the-media

I recently commented on whether Web 2.0 had 'jumped the shark' in terms of strange applications, and also remarked on whether the biggest threat to online privacy was ourselves.  However, I don't thin…

Over-reaction or Appropriate Response?

· politics, privacy-issues

The recent arrest of 2 men on an Emirates Airlines flightfor making a verbal bomb threat and for being drunk and disorderly is really nothing new; it's happened a few times since 9/11.  Up until about…

Online Exhibitionists affect privacy for us all...

· george-orwell, privacy, blogs-and-blogging, personal-stuff, politics, privacy-issues, psychology, technology, the-media

I came up with the title for this piece after reading this article on the BBC Website about people who the authors of a paper called 'online exhibitionists.  The idea is that much privacy legislation …