February 11, 2009
Posted by yaman
Vodafone Hands Data To Egyptian Police
A Vodafone exec has admitted the company handed communications data to the Egyptian police following riots over food shortages last year, to aid the identification of suspects. Egyptian law enforcement has a habit of torturing and murdering detainees, or of having them ‘disappear.’
The more that stories like these come up, the more that Internet/communications privacy emerges as an important right that is under threat around the world. How can privacy rights be protected? Is the onus on communications companies, or on governments? Because these companies are subject to more than one jurisdiction, this is becoming an issue that is increasingly international in character.
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