• Home Secretary ditched ID cards without telling Brown

  GORDON Brown’s main rival for the Labour leadership tore up the government’s key ID card policy without informing...

   

• Bluetooth “Big Brother” tracks festival-goers

  Researchers are using Bluetooth technology to observe the meanderings of tens of thousands of festival-goers at a top European...

   

• The UK DNA database needs proper scrutiny

  Last December the European Court of Human Rights decided in S and Marper v The United Kingdom that the retention by the State...

   

• Big brother is watching

  The furore around the Chinese government’s Green Dam software has raised the issue of the way modern technology is used...

   

• Minister demands Government stop ID cards

  Minister for community safety Fergus Ewing has written to the new UK home secretary Alan Johnson asking for the scheme to...

   

• Eavesdropping on Printers

  First, we develop a novel feature design that borrows from commonly used techniques for feature extraction in speech recognition...

   

• Zimbabwe Abuses Could Constitute Crimes Against Humanity

  A study by human rights groups in southern Africa say torture and other abuses in Zimbabwe have been so widespread and systematic...

   

• Is the writing on the wall for the Government’s ID card scheme?

    Why are we asking this now? The Government had been due to award a key contract as part of its grand biometric ID card...

   

• Internet privacy: Where everybody knows your name

  Nightjack’s blog is, as its author put it rather beautifully yesterday, “slowly melting away as it drops off...

   

• Orson Welles, the blacklist and Hollywood filmmaking

  

  Jun 18, 2009 17:21

  This is the first part of an interview with Joseph McBride, author of What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? A Portrait of an...

   

• ID cards ‘will not protect UK against terrorism’

  Lord Steyn will say the controversial scheme is “unnecessary”, un-British and should be scrapped. It comes as...

   

• Tasers can obtain DNA samples?

  The rationalizations for ‘pain compliance’ – that is, torture to get you to go along with police orders –...

   

• Home Secretary to rethink ID cards

  A review of the principles underpinning the government’s £6billion national identity card scheme is among the first orders...

   

• British Photographers Forced To Play Roulette With Anti- Terror Law

  In Britain, cops have the power to search you if you take a picture of a “sensitive” area, but they won’t...

   

• Pentagon Cyber Command threat to civil liberties

  The Obama administration’s plan to create a Pentagon Cyber Command to conduct both defensive and offensive cyberwarfare...

   

• Abuse at British embassy investigation “fundamentally flawed”

  An investigation into abuse by private staff at the British embassy in Baghdad was “fundamentally flawed”, according...

   

• Phorm raises £15m for web monitoring

  The company said on Wednesday that it raised £15m through a placing of 3.3m shares at £4.50 each, a discount of 85p on...

   

• Web Bugs & Your Privacy

  Web bugs are small bits of code embedded in Websites that add functionality and share information. They’re almost impossible...

   

• Study Finds Google is Top Tracker of Web Users

  When asked about online privacy, most people say they want more information about how they are being tracked and more control...

   

• Jacqui Smith departure causes speculation over ID cards

  Westminster speculation has raised a new question mark over the future of the government’s flagship identity card...

   

• Watchdog wants police to limit CCTV demand on pubs

  Tough new government guidelines are to be demanded to stop police making unfair requests to pubs and clubs around the use...

   

• Street CCTV has little effect on crime

  The Guardian | The use of closed-circuit television in city and town centres and public housing estates does not have a...

   

• Government may renew data sharing plans

  Speaking at a conference in London organised by the Information Commissioner’s Office, he emphasised the need for...

   

• Street View to reshoot Japan after complaints

  

  May 14, 2009 13:06

  By Lester Haines | Google’s Street View has agreed to reshoot all the images captured by its Japan-based spymobiles...

   

• Freedom of information not as it should be

  THERE ARE serious problems in the law regarding the freedom to access documents at the Public Records Office (PRO), the House...