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Inbox: ID cards U-turn: The end is nigh?
Comment Great news and hopefully the beginning of the end for this crazy ID project.and for the government's other pointless, intrusive database and surveillance projects. The government's U-turn on... [06 Jul 2009]
'Fundamentally flawed, almost certainly illegal': Gov't databases
News The report said that this kind of mass surveillance is overly expensive and antithetical to principles of privacy, and pointed out that the idea had already been criticised by the information commissioner. [23 Mar 2009]
Beware - Big Brother is watching you get drunk
Comment This week's silicon.com inbox is bursting with comments around two related themes: surveillance and privacy. New powers are needed to combat a culture of "pervasive" surveillance that has seen the UK... [10 Feb 2009]
UK is Big Brother capital of the world say Lords
News New powers are needed to combat a culture of "pervasive" surveillance that has seen the UK become the most spied upon country in the world, the Lords said today. Citing instances where councils have spied on citizens... [06 Feb 2009]
£18m National Identity Register deal awarded
News ID cards: Latest news ID cards face student scorn ID cards: 'Political' move, claim airport workers Warning:... [04 Aug 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Vista gets down to business, caught on camera, ID cards…
Comment ID cards: The "surveillance society" risk Readers were also busy commenting on the "ring of steel" automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) camera rollout in Manchester, while... [12 Jun 2008]
Open source guru criticises Oyster software
News To escape the surveillance enabled by Oyster cards, Stallman suggested paying fares in cash, or using pay-as-you-go cards and swapping them for time to time: "That way, even if Big... [10 Jun 2008]
ID cards: The "surveillance society" risk
News The Home Affairs Committee report says the ID cards scheme should not become a "surveillance tool" and demands stronger assurances about the government's ability to protect information... [09 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com...Illegal file-sharing, biometrics flying high, ID fines…
Comment Rather than introducing ever more stringent, expensive and intrusive surveillance, wouldn't it be better to spend a fraction of the money and ingenuity on trying to address the causes of our apparent "insecurity"? [28 Feb 2008]
Editor's Blog: ID cards - cock-up and conspiracy...
Comment Still, I couldn't resist the BBC's new politico-techno-conspiracy thriller - The Last Enemy - featuring ID cards, pervasive CCTV surveillance and gigantic databases. It's great that... [20 Feb 2008]
Whose data is it anyway?
Comment Dilemmas of Privacy and Surveillance: Challenges of Technological Change makes sober reading in the light of recent events but it also offers a series of sensible recommendations spanning systems design, risk analysis,... [17 Dec 2007]
Tell customers about data breaches, companies urged
News ID cards, surveillance and data security seminar, Jonathan Bamford, assistant commissioner for the Information Commissioner's Office, told silicon.com such notifications need to be kept... [16 Jul 2007]
Tech to suffer in Brown's new look Whitehall?
News Speaking to silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK, at a Westminster eForum on ID cards, surveillance and data security, he explained that the subsuming of the Office of Science and Innovation... [13 Jul 2007]
Compulsory ID cards for UK citizens within five years
News MPs also voted, by a majority of 51, in favour of making it compulsory for citizens to register their personal and biometric details on the National Identity Register when applying for or renewing "designated" documents such as a... [14 Feb 2006]
Former US spy slams UK's ID card plans
News Scannell claims the control and security governments seek through ID and surveillance checks are short-sighted and dangerous. In an interview with silicon.com in London last week, just after the House of... [23 Jan 2006]
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