• 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...

   

• Biometrics system for foreign students

  A parliamentary committee has echoed universities’ concerns over the robustness of the biometrics system that will...

   

• 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...

   

• 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 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...

   

• £400m biometric-passport contract awarded

  The UK government has awarded the contract for creating the next generation of British passports to secure-document specialist...

   

• 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,...

   

• 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...

   

• Security services eye personal data

  Privacy campaigners are already protesting the idea to use personal data to for ‘pre-emptive surveillance’. By...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• Passengers test new face scanners

  Facial recognition scanners are being trialled at an airport as part of government efforts to improve security and reduce...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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,...

   

• 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,...

   

• ‘Big Brother’ government costs us £20billion

  By Andrew Porter | The cost of Britain’s “surveillance society” measures is now running at £20 billion, a...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• Sweden passes ‘Big Brother bill’

  

  Jun 19, 2008 15:53

  Press TV | Swedish lawmakers vote in favor of a controversial bill allowing all emails and phone calls to be monitored over...

   

• 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...

   

• Commons report: British “surveillance society”

  QAS | The Commons’ home affairs committee has submitted a report warning of the danger of Britain becoming a surveillance...

   

• 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...

   

• 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’...