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UK coalition to halt computer surveillance

Mick Meaney May 13, 2010 0

The UK will reverse and restrain many of the surveillance systems that have marked its citizens out as the most watched in the world. The agreement on which the UK has formed its first

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Innocent man’s fury after police took fingerprint and DNA samples

Mick Meaney May 13, 2010 0

AN ex-soldier who has served in Northern Ireland and guarded the royal family is calling for a police investigation into why he had his fingerprints and DNA sampled after he became the victim of

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IBM to build UK fingerprints database

Mick Meaney July 10, 2009 3

The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has contracted IBM to build a database to support the Government’s switch to biometric passports.IBM will also provide a replacement for the UK Border Agency’s (UKBA) Immigration and

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The great big DNA database fishing expedition

Mick Meaney June 13, 2009 2

In London the Met police have been rounding up and arresting children as young as ten who have committed no crime, for the purpose of getting their DNA on record. A FOI request has

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Government may renew data sharing plans

Mick Meaney May 14, 2009 0

Speaking at a conference in London organised by the Information Commissioner’s Office, he emphasised the need for a new consultation on the appropriate limits of data sharing. This follows the government’s retreat from its

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Paying billions for our database state

Mick Meaney April 24, 2009 0

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

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DNA database grows by 38 per cent in two years

Mick Meaney March 30, 2009 0

By Tom Young | Some 1.4 million new profiles have been added to the DNA database in the past two years – a rise of 38 per cent – according to figures released by the

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The database state we’re in

Mick Meaney March 23, 2009 0

The Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust has published a major report on the UK’s Database State. Technology is transforming government, and there is an urgent need to control and understand it.  One of the most

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UK’s DNA database and ID register are illegal

Mick Meaney March 23, 2009 3

The UK’s controversial DNA database and ID cards register are in breach of European data protection and rights laws, according to a new report by the Rowntree Trust published this week. The report slams

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Bus drivers issued with DNA kits

Mick Meaney December 18, 2008 0

BUS drivers in Wrexham have now been issued with DNA testing equipment to catch passengers who spit at them. By Matt Sims The swab kits were issued at a special event at Wrexham Bus

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Nearly half of all criminals escape the DNA database say Lib Dems

Mick Meaney December 4, 2008 0

Ahead of today’s European Court of Human Rights ruling on whether two innocent men should be removed from the DNA database, the Liberal Democrats have revealed that 40% of Britain’s criminals escape inclusion on

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64,000 DNA samples from our children – This needs to be stopped

Mick Meaney December 3, 2008 0

Western Mail | THE debate over privacy and the rights of the individual against those of society at large has been given a fresh twist this week with the arrest of an MP and

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ACLU Challenges DNA Databank Expansion

Mick Meaney November 16, 2008 0

Civil Liberties Group Concerned Over Privacy Issues MONTPELIER, Vt. — A proposal to expand the state’s DNA database is being questioned by a civil liberties group.   Under the Senate Judiciary Committee’s plan, the

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Surveillance Overload

Mick Meaney November 8, 2008 2

By Christian Harris | The world’s gone security crazy. Everywhere we go stronger measures are being implemented to combat impersonation, ID theft and fraud. Following news that a leading chain of kiddie’s nurseries in

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The DNA database and you

Mick Meaney November 7, 2008 0

How big is it? How many get off it? Your questions answered… By David Mery Special Report The National DNA Database (NDNAD) keeps growing: it now holds more than five million DNA profiles of

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Passport Service dismisses 14 for database abuses

Mick Meaney October 31, 2008 1

The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) says it has dismissed 14 people over the last three years in relation to passport database abuses.The IPS is now closely involved in building the government’s national identity

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Record increase in DNA database

Mick Meaney October 10, 2008 0

More than 722,000 samples were added to the National DNA Database last year – a record increase for one year. The database has samples from some 4m people and is the world’s largest per

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Expanded DNA testing threatens innocent

Mick Meaney October 1, 2008 0

By LONNIE RANDOLPH | In early July, Gov. Mark Sanford vetoed a bill that would have required the state to collect DNA samples from people simply arrested for — but not convicted of —

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DNA contract reveals plan to probe offenders’ families

Mick Meaney September 23, 2008 0

Now you see it, now you don’t: A proposed $300,000 contract between Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas and a British DNA lab provided for software that would help track down criminals by identifying

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DNA database details of children ‘should be deleted’

Mick Meaney September 19, 2008 1

By Mark Hookham | Lancashire Police should delete the DNA records of around 4,000 youngsters held on a computer database, the Liberal Democrats have demanded. Delegates at the party’s Bournemouth conference overwhelmingly backed a

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DNA Testing Expands to Lesser Crimes

Mick Meaney September 9, 2008 0

By Dan Morse | While unusual, here is a crime as alleged by Montgomery County police that joins the list of things harder to get away with in the era of DNA evidence: Man walks

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Groups protest DNA collection law

Mick Meaney September 5, 2008 0

By Laura Smitherman | The Legislative Black Caucus and civil rights activists criticized yesterday Gov. Martin O’Malley‘s plan for implementing a new program for collecting DNA samples from crime suspects, accusing the administration of

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France marches online to protest ‘security’ database

Mick Meaney September 5, 2008 0

Personal privacy is, of course, a major issue these days, particularly when it comes to authorities gathering data in schemes such as the UK’s proposed identity card program or France’s Edvidge electronic database. Edvidge,

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Big brother, big bother?

Mick Meaney September 4, 2008 0

Is the proposed Communications Data Bill a step too far for the British way of life? Timothy Pitt-Payne reports   By Timothy Pitt-Payne | On 15 July this year, the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas,

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DNA databases shut after identities compromised

Mick Meaney September 4, 2008 0

Nature | Several DNA databases run by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, the Wellcome Trust in London and the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, were closed to public access

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