Privacy
Whatever happened to Caroline Lane? A Margate mystery
How could a feisty middle-aged woman suddenly vanish from the seaside town without trace? David Whitehouse set out to discover
Is nothing private anymore?
We all need a place away from public view – but we should also remind ourselves why our privacy has been so invaded
Has your local shop blacklisted you?
Britain’s obsession with surveillance is reaching new heights. Several of the UK’s largest retailers have quietly installed facial recognition checkpoints…
The authoritarianism of British Transport Police
When our freedoms are being taken away we are like the proverbial frog boiled alive in water where the temperature…
The death of the private citizen
The internet is not a private place, but news outlets have decided that it’s up to them to determine when…
Why is everyone on Facebook so paranoid about their privacy?
There’s a line in Desperately Seeking Susan where Madonna (Susan) reads aloud the diary of Roberta, the bored housewife she…
In praise of privacy
David Niven’s younger son Jamie, now an old man and a bit overweight, approached my table and announced that he…
Forget your data – it’s your DNA privacy you should be worried about
Nearly ten years ago, a lorry driver known only as ‘Michael Harry K’ adopted an extreme response to combating what…
Are we all potential cyberterrorists now?
Hollywood got there first, of course. Back in 1983, before most of us even learned — then forgot again —…
Barometer
Watching brief Samsung warned users of its voice-activated televisions that what they said in front of the TV could be…
Letters
Nothing to fear Sir: So long as we are not breaking any law, we have nothing to fear from the…
Licence to snoop
Police are using an anti-terror law to run wild in the public’s mobile phone records
Selfie obsession
People can’t seem to stop taking pictures of themselves – and their private parts. It’s the ultimate expression of our increasingly puerile and narcissistic society
Is looking at a nude photo of Jennifer Lawrence really the same thing as stealing it?
‘If you click on Jennifer Lawrence’s naked pictures,’ said the headline on the Guardian’s website, ‘you’re perpetuating her abuse.’ That…
Gaudy notebook
As the BA flight from Warsaw landed at Heathrow, I felt a little tremor of anxiety, though it wasn’t anything…
Snowden is no leftie
So why are British conservatives determined to ignore his revelations?
Dear Mary
Q. I have a problem with what might be called location blindness. I live in Balham, but when I arrange…
Letters
A net gain Sir: Jamie Bartlett tries to balance plus and minus, and ends with zero (‘Little Brothers are watching…
Little Brothers are watching you
If you use the internet at all, companies will be grabbing whatever information they can find about you
St Tropez Notebook
I recently had to spend a great deal of time attempting to clear my name from a ludicrous assertion in…
