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But it is not just the US authorities which are opening a path for others to undermine privacy.
"It is not our intention to apply policy over zealously & undermine privacy," Nominet's official Twitter account tweeted on 6 June.
But it also has the potential to undermine privacy, which has been greatly compromised by recent revelations about government surveillance of phone and Internet communications.
The US position has left people wondering whether the TPP will undermine privacy, particularly in the wake of the NSA revelations from the Snowden documents.
Privacy and human rights groups have been concerned about the security of Tor following revelations in the Guardian, New York Times and ProPublica about widespread NSA efforts to undermine privacy and security software.
Most of the hijackers travelled under their own names, rather than on false documents.For years, lobby groups have campaigned against biometrics on the grounds that they will undermine privacy and lead to the setting up of Big-Brotherish monitoring systems by governments.
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In the past few years, drones have ushered in a new era of random killings as well as massively undermining privacy.
"This completely undermines privacy overseas and if the administration thinks this precedent wouldn't be used by China, Russia and others then they are in serious error," said Nicholas Weaver, a senior researcher at the International Computer Science Institute at UC Berkeley.
The way information was conveyed in some schools also undermined privacy: in one school, all students were handed a note giving information about the closures; however, students who were required to adopt home isolation (because they may have been in contact with the student diagnosed with H1N1) were given a note in a different colour, clearly identifying them to other students and staff.
This kind of privacy nihilism isn't new, and we've long understood that while people say they value privacy, they often act in ways that undermine their privacy protections (like not changing their password, for example).
"The Investigatory Powers Act already has the potential to undermine online privacy and there is very little in the new bill to protect our most sensitive data.
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