As the final part of Pangloss’s catch up of vital reports on privacy and DP that all seem to have emerged while I was on holiday (sigh), the ICO’s own report on its future strategy on DP enforcement needs read. I refer you in the meantime to cogent comments at Naked Law.

Very…

Ever late to the party, still-bronchitic Pangloss would just like to make a few points about the Great Wikipedia Cleanfeed Debacle, if only for her own aide memoire, as she’s still re-writing her porn chapter, and so she can say…

Interesting report on the Beeb about how the IWF have identified how many sites trade such images and concluded there are 2,755 such sites worldwide.

“Of these, 80% are judged to be fully commercial operations.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/06/obscene_publication_girls_aloud/

Bleeding heck. This and the UK extraditing someone for denial of Holocaust, a crime we don’t actually have here, all in one week?

I hate to say it, but both the Lib Dems and the Telegraqh are dead right on this one…

.. but not from buyers.

This is an interesting one. A small UK study Ashley Theunissen and I did in 2005/6 seemed to reveal that both sellers and buyers found leaving feedback by far the most useful and widely-used instrument they had at their disposal…

Just as we have long had a debate in digicircles about ethical hacking, do we now have to start having it about ethical online leaking?

Thought inspired by the much bally hooed leak of the entire BNP membership list in breach of court injunction.

WikiLeaks has of course been in this business for…

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Pangloss herself is not quite sure of the point of this (but somone suggested it as a good idea): you’d have…