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ISSUES: Privacy
Chapter 1: What is privacy?
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Criminal Cases Review Commission
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Department for Communities in Northern Ireland
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Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland
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Department of Justice in Northern Ireland
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Financial Conduct Authority
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Fire and rescue authorities under the Fire and Rescue
Services Act 2004
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Food Standards Agency
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Food Standards Scotland
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Gambling Commission
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Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority
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Health and Safety Executive
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Independent Police Complaints Commissioner
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Information Commissioner
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NHS Business Services Authority
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Northern Ireland Ambulance Service Health and Social
Care Trust
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Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service Board
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Northern Ireland Health and Social Care Regional
Business Services Organisation
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Office of Communications
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Office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland
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Police Investigations and Review Commissioner
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Scottish Ambulance Service Board
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Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission
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Serious Fraud Office
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Welsh Ambulance Services National Health Service Trust
In his blog, titled “Who can view my Internet history”, Yiu
doesn’t mince his words when it comes to expressing how
he feels.
“I always wondered what it would feel like to be suffocated
by the sort of state intrusion that citizens are subjected to in
places like China, Russia and Iran. I guess we’re all about to
find out.”
Boasting some of the most invasive surveillance laws we’ve
ever seen, the Investigatory Powers Bill includes bulk data
collection, the forced surveillance of personal devices (in
extreme cases) and the ability to even control those devices
if possible.
We spoke to John Shaw, VP Product Management at Sophos
about how the Bill could affect us and whether we should
be worried.
Shaw presented an alternative point of view which is that
while the Bill is indeed invasive, it’s the indirect actions of
the Bill which could pose the most amount of danger to us.
“We should perhaps be more nervous that a hacker might
break into the store of data held by your ISP and sell it on.”
explains Shaw.
“Especially after the revelations about TalkTalk, one of the
ISPs that will need to store the data. The Government’s
advisers claim that there will be very strict controls on the
storing and security of the data. But I for one feel nervous
about that, and that is the thing that might cause me to use
a VPN.”
25 November 2016
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