Caspar Bowden, privacy campaigner - obituary privacy campaigner who turned from poacher to gamekeeper when he took a job as head of privacy for Microsoft's non-US operations in 2002. internet giants had turned over user data to a US surveillance program Surveillance Act. The act authorises mass-surveillance of the data of through a transformation in surveillance power that's never been seen for Labour, he urged the party to make personal data protection a high Browser" surveillance powers under which security agencies would have Parliament on data privacy issues. * Privacy and Cookies