We need Geneva convention for the internet, says new UN privacy chief

Joseph Cannataci, says threat to public's privacy is worse than anything Orwell could have foreseen and describes British data protection as 'a joke' The first UN privacy chief has said the world needs a "Geneva convention for the internet" to safeguard data and combat the threat of massive clandestine digital surveillance. Speaking to the Guardian weeks after his appointment as the UN special rapporteur on privacy, Joseph Cannataci singled out British data protection as being "a joke", and said...