Media Standards Trust

440 page report by Perri 6 split into 4 parts: private life, drivers of change, futures of privacy and private life, privacy policy conflicts and viable conflicts (includes chapters on 'The media & th...

Source: Demos, Demos

1998

Keywords: privacy, freedom of the press, data protection, ethics

'We live in a surveillance society'. So starts this report commissioned by the Information Commissioner (and conducted by the Surveillance Studies Network) which details the full extent to which the U...

Source: Office of the Information Commissioner, Office of the Information Commissioner

2006

Keywords: surveillance, privacy, information commissioner

David Morrison and Michael Svennevig's 126 page report includes interviews, focus groups and an NOP survey. Its aims are to find out what the media and the public understand by 'public interest' and '...

Source: ITC, ITC

Mar-02

Keywords: PSB, privacy, taste & decency, public view, the public good, news values

Recommendations from MediaWise to DCMS committee regarding press intrusions to privacy. Include: establish human rights commission, consult journalists and public on code of practice, media ombudsman,...

Source: MediaWise, Media Wise

Feb-03

Keywords: privacy, complaints, corrections, accuracy, compensation, ombudsman, regulation, human rights

Academic research paper discussing some of the major issues surrounding trust in e-commerce. Defines the concept of trust and explores some trust-enhancing strategies. Concludes with future research p...

Source: Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford Internet Institute

Apr-03

Keywords: trust, identity, privacy, economics

Exploring idea of trust on the internet, based on findings of Oxford Internet Institute's 2003 survey. Study shows wide variations in cybertrust. Experience tends to increase trust, except when it gen...

Source: Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford Internet Institute

Oct-03

Keywords: Trust, internet, technology, privacy

'A Race to the Bottom: Privacy Ranking of Internet Service Companies' is an interim report from the campaigning research organisation Privacy International, grading major internet companies according ...

Source: Privacy International, Privacy International

June 2006

Keywords: Privacy, Privacy International, Google

In Britain there is currently a battle engaged around the point at which freedom of information and expression meet the right to the protection of private life. Yet neither ‘private life’ nor ‘public ...

Source: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Stephen Whittle and Glenda Cooper

17th July 2009

Keywords: Privacy, Public interest, Human Rights Act, New media

From IPPR: "There are now many calls for the reform of the Press Complaints Commission, for a rethink about how best to protect personal privacy, whilst paying sufficient regard to the importance of f...

Source: IPPR, Institute for Public Policy Research

Feb-02

Keywords: privacy, journalism, human rights

Review by 11 MPs, chaired by Mr John Whittingdale, of the state of self-regulation of the press - triggered by imprisonment of Clive Goodman (News of the World) for phone-tapping, the evidence provide...

Source: Culture, Media & Sport Committee, Culture, Media & Sport Committee

July 2007

Keywords: self-regulation, PCC, press, privacy