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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Eavesdropping on Printers
First, we develop a novel feature design that borrows from commonly used techniques for feature extraction in speech recognition...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Orson Welles, the blacklist and Hollywood filmmaking
This is the first part of an interview with Joseph McBride, author of What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? A Portrait of an...
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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...
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Tasers can obtain DNA samples?
The rationalizations for ‘pain compliance’ – that is, torture to get you to go along with police orders –...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Abuse at British embassy investigation “fundamentally flawed”
An investigation into abuse by private staff at the British embassy in Baghdad was “fundamentally flawed”, according...
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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...
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Web Bugs & Your Privacy
Web bugs are small bits of code embedded in Websites that add functionality and share information. They’re almost impossible...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Government may renew data sharing plans
Speaking at a conference in London organised by the Information Commissioner’s Office, he emphasised the need for...
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Street View to reshoot Japan after complaints
By Lester Haines | Google’s Street View has agreed to reshoot all the images captured by its Japan-based spymobiles...
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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...




