• New Zealand Widens DNA Database

  

  Sep 6, 2010 3:45

  A new law will allow police to collect DNA data at the same time they take fingerprints from people they intend to charge...

   

• Front Towards Enemy – Apple i-spy

  

  Aug 28, 2010 2:53

  In Old Russia you don’t listen to i-pod, i-pod listens to you. Sounds like a throw away line form a spoof movie.....

   

• Why does Turkey censor the Internet?

  

  Jul 26, 2010 12:01

  by KLAUS JURGENS Has surfing the Net become a crime? Are we not entitled to live in a knowledge-based economy? We must resist...

   

• Spyware on your phone?

  

  Jun 29, 2010 19:54

  How suspicious spouses, protective parents, and concerned companies are turning to cheap and hard-to-detect commerical spyware...

   

• New anti-slavery legislation and the workplace

  By Kirstie Skeaping It is now a criminal offence to hold a person in servitude, so what does this mean for employers and...

   

• Pentagon bans journalists from Guantanamo trial

  By Scott Horton The Gates Pentagon has decided to ban four journalists from covering the Guantánamo proceedings. The Washington...

   

• ID card officials back away from scandal-hit database

  Government plans to store ID card biometrics data on a controversial system used by thousands of public workers might be...

   

• Police in Wales have taken DNA samples from more than 55,000 innocent people

  POLICE in Wales have taken DNA samples from more than 55,000 innocent people, we can reveal. Almost half of these – an...

   

• ID cards snubbed in Manchester

  Matthew Davis ONLY 8,000 people have enquired about getting the government’s controversial ID cards, which will be...

   

• Police admit CCTV not effective – solves less than 1 crime per year

  Ewan Turney The news takes on extra relevance for pubs after reports of several police forces in parts of the country, including...

   

• UK ID cards will be useless in Europe

  David Neal | ACCORDING TO the UK’s Identity Minister, the Government’s ID cards won’t be worth the paper...

   

• Home Office shrugs off ID card hack demo

  A researcher who claims to have cloned a UK identity card has had his offers to demonstrate the security breach turned down...

   

• Government plans to install CCTV in 20,000 homes

  Adam Hartley The UK Government’s Children’s Secretary Ed Balls has announced a controversial new CCTV monitoring...

   

• Privacy Breaches By ID Card Staff

  Nine staff have been sacked from their local authority jobs for snooping on personal records of celebrities and personal...

   

• Indians to get biometric ID cards

   The Indian government plans to give all of its 1.2 billion citizens biometric ID cards, and Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani...

   

• £24m: The cost of tracking your emails and phone calls

  The Home Office has revealed the multimillion-pound cost of monitoring the UK’s communications. Home Office policing...

   

• IBM biometrics ID cards contract to last 7 years

  IBM’s contract to supply technology for ID cards will last seven years, despite the possibility that a change in government...

   

• Government replies to EU legal challenge on Phorm

  The government has replied to a legal challenge from the European Commission (EC) over the online advertising technology...

   

• Scrap The National Identity Register

  Chris Grayling told a House of Commons debate on scrapping identity cards on 6 July 2009 that a Conservative government...

   

• The increase of the surveillance society

  Following the 9/11 and 7/7 terrorist attacks, there has been an exponential increase in Britain’s surveillance: currently,...

   

• NO2ID: ID Cards are not ‘voluntary’

  Readers may be aware that the Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, has announced that the planned ID cards will be “voluntary”,...

   

• Government burying ID card costs in passports

  The Conservatives have accused the government of burying the cost of ID cards in a hike in the price of passports. Yesterday...

   

• UN Chief Speaks Out Against Lack of Human Rights

  Using the power of his office, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon achieved a rare diplomatic feat during his recent visit...

   

• ID cards are not being scrapped but accelerated

  Home secretary Alan Johnson has flatly denied killing off the ID card programme with his announcement last week that the...

   

• Battle for ID cards hits the Commons

  ID cards have finally reached the Commons again, with a Conservative opposition day debate on the scheme due for debate this...