William Goodwin

WhatsApp is refused right to intervene in Apple legal action on encryption ‘backdoors’ | Computer Weekly Investigatory Powers Tribunal to hear arguments in public over lawfulness of secret UK order requiring Apple to give UK law enforcement access to users’ encrypted data stored on the Apple iCloud.

Updated - Court refuses WhatsApp right to intervene in Apple legal action on encryption ‘backdoors’ www.computerweekly.com/news/3666279... @privacyinternational.org @susansegfault.bsky.social @ianbrown.tech

Fresh allegations of ‘sustained’ police and MI5 surveillance against BBC reporters | Computer Weekly The Investigatory Powers Tribunal is investigating claims that police spied on the phone of investigative journalist Chris Moore amid further claims of a sustained monitoring operation against BBC rep...

Fresh allegations of ‘sustained’ police and MI5 surveillance against BBC reporters

👉Surveillance against BBC journalists allegedly took place during multiple PSNI operations in 2009, 2011, 2014 and 2022

UK may be seeking to pull back from Apple encryption row with US | Computer Weekly The government may be seeking to pull back from a diplomatic row with the US over UK demands to require Apple to give the UK access to secure data stored by Apple users. UK government officials have t...

ICYI - UK government officials say that attempts by the Home Office to require Apple to introduce ‘back doors’ to its secure encrypted storage service will cross US red lines

www.computerweekly.com/news/3666279... #surviellance #encryption ‪@susansegfault.bsky.social‬

The Foundation for Information Policy Research is today publishing a policy explainer of the ongoing case between Apple and the Home Office, in which we outline the issues and our views on them as experts in law, cryptography, policy, security, and criminology. You can find it here: www.fipr.org

European Commission accused of rigging data watchdog appointment | Computer Weekly The European Commission has been accused of rigging the selection process for the next European Data Protection supervisor.

New- www.computerweekly.com/news/3666275... @ianbrown.tech @douwekorff.bsky.social @mariafarrell.bsky.social #EDPS #dataprotection #law #politics

Investigatory Powers Tribunal has no power to award costs against PSNI over evidence failures | Computer Weekly Investigatory Powers Tribunal judges have called for the Home Secretary to step in after finding they have no powers to award costs against government bodies that fail to disclose evidence.

Surveillance court has no power to award costs against police and intelligence services
www.computerweekly.com/news/3666228... #IPT #PSNI #law

Thanks Bill for publishing me again - this one a short primer on the history and practice of the IPT

The Investigatory Powers Tribunal explained | Computer Weekly The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) is an unusual semi-secret judicial body, based London but capable of sitting in Scotland or Northern Ireland too. It carries out many of its functions secretly,...

The Investigatory Powers Tribunal is a semi-secret judicial body that has made significant legal rulings on privacy, surveillance and the use of investigatory powers. What does it do and why is it important? Excllent analysis from @bernardkeenan.bsky.social
www.computerweekly.com/news/3666223...

Great news. The IPT will hear the substantive arguments about the Apple anti-encryption order in public hearings. Now the government can decide what they prefer: fight the appeal and put a chilling effect on encryption in the UK, or back down, withdraw the TCN, and let this blow over...

The big US academic conferences will be much smaller in future.

1. Apple wins, with the Tribunal publicly finding that technical measures compromising encryption systems are disproportionate in principle and therefore unlawful. The optimal outcome for privacy and the integrity of encryption systems in the UK and a step toward a 'human right to encryption'.

Tech specialist files legal claim after being refused security clearance for MI6 role | Computer Weekly A computer specialist has filed a complaint to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal after being unexpectedly told they had failed the vetting process just before starting work as a technology specialist ...

Tech specialist files legal claim after being refused security clearance for MI6 role
www.computerweekly.com/news/3666208... #developedvetting #IPT

Why I am challenging Yvette Cooper’s ‘secret back door’ order against Apple’s encryption | Computer Weekly Security is hard. It's even harder now that, apparently, the UK Government has secretly ordered Apple to reduce the security of its services. That's why my colleagues and I had to take the government ...

"I took steps to lock down all personal data after I was named as an opponent of Russia. Now I am again worried about my family's safety after the home secretary issued a secret order against Apple" - Gus Hosein

www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Why-...

Top science journal faced secret attacks from Covid conspiracy theory group | Computer Weekly One of the world’s most prestigious general science journals, was the target of a two-year long sustained and virulent secret attack by a conspiratorial group of extreme Brexit lobbyists with high-lev...

If you really want to know why a former head of MI6 was sending unsolicited briefings on Covid to No.10... read some real reporting by @computerweekly.bsky.social and @bylinetimes.bsky.social

www.computerweekly.com/news/3665534...

Ahaha... so much for the "quality" of the intelligence community assessments of a supposed lab leak.

Self-aggrandizing idiots falling for [and conjuring up] bad movie conspiracy theories...

Thanks for the laughts, great reporting by @bylinetimes.bsky.social and @computerweekly.bsky.social

Council that gambled £1bn on the property market set for government… Spelthorne spent big on commercial properties to offset austerity cuts but amassed disastrous debts

Surrey council that bet £1bn on the property market set for urgent government intervention

Like other scandal-hit local authorities, Spelthorne spent years insisting everything was fine - until it wasn't

PSNI’s ‘ridiculous’ withholding of evidence in spying operation delayed court hearings  | Computer Weekly

Landmark ruling by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal will decide whether the surveillance court can award costs against government bodies accused of unreasonable behaviour
www.computerweekly.com/news/3666209... #surveillance #journalists

US Congress demands UK lifts gag on Apple encryption order | Computer Weekly US law makers have hit out at the UK Home Office for “attempting to gag” US companies by preventing  them from telling Congress whether they have been subject to secret UK orders requiring them to han...

US law makers demand UK drops gag orders against Apple requiring it to withhold information from Congress about UK attempts to create "back doors" in Apple iCloud.
#encryption #e2ee #surveillance

www.computerweekly.com/news/3666206...

Apple: British techies to advise on ‘devastating’ UK global crypto power grab | Computer Weekly A hitherto unknown British organisation – which even the government may have forgotten about – is about to be drawn into a global technical and financial battle, facing threats from Apple to pull out ...

Following our report on the Home Office’s secret demand to Apple to break its security encryption on iCloud, Apple has just responded.

www.computerweekly.com/news/3666190...

A screenshot of a poem. The poem reads: Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

From “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

#skybrary #skybrarians #booksky

Warning over privacy of encrypted messages as Russia targets Signal Messenger | Computer Weekly Russia-backed hacking groups have developed techniques to compromise encrypted messaging services, including Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram, placing journalists, politicians, and activists of interest ...

Warning over privacy of encrypted messages as Russia targets Signal Messenger www.computerweekly.com/news/3666194... via @computerweekly #encryption #phishing #Signal #E2EE

German court finds hacked EncroChat phone evidence inadmissible | Computer Weekly The Berlin Regional Court has found that evidence obtained by a joint French and Dutch operation to hack the EncroChat encrypted mobile phone network is legally inadmissible, raising questions about i...

A decision, by Germany’s largest criminal court, calls into question previous assumptions that under Europe’s mutual recognition principle, intercept evidence obtained by one member state can automatically be used as evidence in other European states.

www.computerweekly.com/news/3666176...