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A Question of Social Media: On Kids and Students
Facebook started in a campus where it first struck the hearts of the jocks and cheerleaders. It continued in other college campuses and continued to flourish there the most. It was not until 2010
Read More »Biometrics system for foreign students
A parliamentary committee has echoed universities’ concerns over the robustness of the biometrics system that will be used for visa applications by students. The Home Affairs Committee looked at the role of the National
Read More »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 Independent Career(2006). The second part was posted June 17. While in
Read More »New Phone Directory Invades Privacy
Pay a pound for faceless corporation to have your phone number Technology but used for evil? In a potential step towards a bleak Big Brother future, this week sees the launch of the UK’s first
Read More »A New Spy in the Sky
At first glance, there was nothing special about the blimp floating high above the cars and crowd at this year’s Indy 500 on Memorial Day weekend. Like most airships, it acted as an advertising
Read More ȣ400m biometric-passport contract awarded
The UK government has awarded the contract for creating the next generation of British passports to secure-document specialist De La Rue. The Identity and Passport Service on Thursday announced the £400m contract for the passports, which
Read More »UK Government Drops Big Brother ‘Database’ But Remains Big Brother
The UK government wants communications companies to keep records of our phone, text messages, e-mail and Internet traffic, but has dropped plans to keep this information stored in a centralized database. Currently UK Internet service providers are required
Read More »Paying billions for our database state
It is cost rather than privacy concerns that will save us from Labour’s megalomaniac surveillance schemes – a point underlined this morning when David Cameron was interviewed on the Today programme. With the vast
Read More »Security services eye personal data
Privacy campaigners are already protesting the idea to use personal data to for ‘pre-emptive surveillance’. By William Maclean | CCTV cameras will play a big part in security during next week’s G20 summit, but
Read More »NSA’s meta-data email surveillance program exposed
WMR has learned details of one of the most important components of the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping program code named “STELLAR WIND.” The highly-classified STELLAR WIND program was initiated by the George W.
Read More »Don’t sleepwalk into Big Brother surveillance, schools warned
By STEPHEN NAYSMITH | Schools which employ biometric technologies such as fingerprint patterning to manage libraries or dinner queues should put surveillance and privacy issues on the curriculum, according to university experts. An analysis
Read More »Fury at Labour MPs ‘Orwellian’ tactics over DNA database vote
Liverpool Daily Post | LABOUR MPs were accused of “Orwellian” tactics last night after voting to make it all-but impossible for innocent people to remove their DNA from the national database. Opposition parties reacted
Read More »Passengers test new face scanners
Facial recognition scanners are being trialled at an airport as part of government efforts to improve security and reduce passenger congestion. The system has been introduced at Manchester Airport. It can be used by
Read More »DNA database least of our concerns
By Ian Williams | Privacy concerns over the details of innocents being held in the UK’s National DNA Database are not nearly as worrying as other planned government files. This is the revelation from
Read More »Spy-in-sky patrols over British cities
By Jason Lewis | MI5 is using a fleet of sophisticated surveillance aircraft to search for unidentified Britons who fought alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan. The manhunt has been ordered because it is feared the
Read More »Call for system to ensure proper use of CCTV
By MICHAEL SETTLE | A new system should be introduced to ensure that the growing number of CCTV cameras are used properly, Ann McKechin, the Labour MP for Glasgow North, will propose in the House
Read More »Chief constable defends ‘trivial’ use of CCTV
By Robin Turner | USING CCTV cameras to spy on dog owners who fail to clear up their pets’ mess is perfectly acceptable, Wales’ most controversial police chief claims. In his blog, the outspoken
Read More »‘Big Brother’ government costs us £20billion
By Andrew Porter | The cost of Britain’s “surveillance society” measures is now running at £20 billion, a new report reveals today. The amount is equivalent to £800 per household and includes £19 billion
Read More »CCTV row breaks out in crime-free village
Daily Record | VILLAGERS are up in arms after CCTV was installed in an area where crime is almost unknown. Nearly all of them have signed a petition to have the spy cameras removed.
Read More »CCTV doesn’t keep us safe, yet the cameras are everywhere
By Bruce Schneier | Pervasive security cameras don’t substantially reduce crime. There are exceptions, of course, and that’s what gets the press. Most famously, CCTV cameras helped catch James Bulger’s murderers in 1993. And
Read More »Sweden passes ‘Big Brother bill’
Press TV | Swedish lawmakers vote in favor of a controversial bill allowing all emails and phone calls to be monitored over ‘security issues’. Lawmakers voted late on Wednesday on one of the most
Read More »Tougher terror laws actually enhance freedoms, claims Brown
By James Kirkup | The Prime Minister used a speech in London to defend his Government’s record on civil liberties in the light of last week’s Labour rebellion over the detention of terror suspects
Read More »Commons report: British “surveillance society”
QAS | The Commons’ home affairs committee has submitted a report warning of the danger of Britain becoming a surveillance society. The report calls on the government to promise the proposed ID card scheme
Read More »Mobile Phone Number Moving Caused Feds to Wiretap Wrong American
By Ryan Singel | In poring through the latest round of documents the FBI turned over to the Electronic Frontier Foundation about how the FBI legally plugs into the nation’s telephone system, THREAT LEVEL discovered that
Read More »Biometric scans raise spectre of Big Brother workplaces
Management-Issues | As the FBI embarks on a $1bn programme to build the world’s largest computer database of peoples’ physical characteristics, UK employers are being warned they need to think long and hard before
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