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The Weekly Round-Up: 07.11.08
Round-Up While the USA picked its next President in a history-making day, the BBC's blog kept the Round-Up in electoral stitches with news gems such as: 'The UK's Whipsnade Zoo solemnly informs the BBC that two American bison -... [07 Nov 2008]
Call for tougher online retail age checks
News One possibility could be to refer to the electoral roll, but that is cumbersome and not foolproof. An MP is calling for a change in the law to force online retailers to introduce tougher age verification... [21 Jan 2008]
Editor's Blog: Banking on a human or computer?
Comment before eventually a trawl of the Electoral Roll (yes, they do that) showed I wasn't lying about my current address. The other day I went to the high street for the first time in ages to deal with my... [21 Mar 2007]
NHS turns to SAS business intelligence for fraud busting
News The idea is that data will be extracted, merged with other data - for example from the electoral roll - stored and then analysed by an alert engine, detecting patterns of abuse based around a set of rules. [13 Feb 2003]
Cornish council to beat e-government deadline
News Easy options such as planning information and electoral register details will be among the first web services online, but the council will prioritise the rollout of services based on consultations with residents. [24 Jan 2002]
Privacy ruling opens legal floodgates
News A High Court ruled on Friday that Wakefield City Council flouted both the Human Rights Act and the Data Protection Act by refusing to guarantee that details from the electoral roll wouldn't be sold for... [19 Nov 2001]
Electoral roll for sale (Brian Robertson not included)
News As a result Robertson refused to register on the electoral roll and was unable to vote in June's General Election. Retired accountant Brian Robertson has won a landmark High Court case to prevent his... [19 Nov 2001]
Identity theft is fastest-growing threat
News Criminals have found the personal information on the electoral roll, online directories and online genealogy sites. Identity theft is the fastest growing crime in the UK, according to software company... [18 Sep 2001]
Found: Millions of missing buildings
News The new database will be the key to Tony Blair's entire e-government initiative, linking into the Government's UK Online and Government Gateway projects, as well as the 'rolling register' project to put the electoral... [29 Apr 2001]
Privacy campaigners outraged by electoral register scandal
News The UK government announced today that it aims to make electoral roll information accessible online, funding the project by selling the information to credit reference agencies and other bodies. The... [12 Apr 2001]
Posh and Becks score own goal in online privacy wrangle
News Anyone on the Electoral Roll can have their details removed free of charge. Late last week, the Beckhams' lawyers threatened to take action against i-CD, the company behind directory site 192.com, after... [12 Feb 2001]
British legal system goes automatic for the people
News Centrally, jurors have been selected automatically from the electoral roll for years. It aims to complete a national roll-out of the new systems by 20 November, 2000. The British legal... [04 Sep 2000]
Home Office gets wooden spoon in Big Brother Awards
News The Big Brother awards, organised by human rights group Privacy International, also named communications giant, Racal, for its electronic surveillance system and credit management firm, Experian, for its use of UK... [19 Oct 1999]
Equifax to utilise authorisation database for ecommerce
News Equifax stores information on all UK consumers, supplied by leading financial services, utilities and the electoral roll. Credit rating agency, Equifax, is to start using the financial records of UK... [10 Jun 1999]
