{"id":449,"date":"2014-07-31T13:14:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T12:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=449"},"modified":"2017-11-23T11:21:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T11:21:54","slug":"uk-police-and-anonymity-on-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2014\/07\/31\/uk-police-and-anonymity-on-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"UK police and anonymity on the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #333333\">Dr Eerke Boite and Dr Julio Hernandez-Castro of the University\u2019s School of Computing and\u00a0<a style=\"color: #4a7194\" title=\"Centre for Cyber security research\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cybersec.kent.ac.uk\/\">Interdisciplinary Centre for Cyber Security Research\u00a0<\/a>have asked poignant questions following an\u00a0announcement by\u00a0the National Crime Agency (NCA). The NCA said it had made 660 arrests after\u00a0an operation to identify people who had viewed indecent images of children online.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333\">The cyber crime experts argue that this announcement raises important questions about how possible it is to be anonymous online, especially when some people have legitimate reasons for remaining anonymous, such as journalists, whistleblowers, and political activists under repressive regimes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333\">You can read their full comment in the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #4a7194\" title=\"Conversation article\" href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/can-you-really-be-identified-on-tor-or-is-that-just-what-the-cops-want-you-to-believe-29430\">original article<\/a>\u00a0published on\u00a0<a style=\"color: #4a7194\" href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/\">The Conversation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Eerke Boite and Dr Julio Hernandez-Castro of the University\u2019s School of Computing and\u00a0Interdisciplinary Centre for Cyber Security Research\u00a0have asked poignant questions following an\u00a0announcement by\u00a0the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2014\/07\/31\/uk-police-and-anonymity-on-the-internet\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5321,"featured_media":223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,70,122],"tags":[15073,57982,37339,37411,57886,37400,142771],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}