surveillance society
Covert surveillance must be reserved for serious crimes, says government
News Local authorities must cut down on using covert-surveillance techniques to investigate petty offences, the government has said. Ripa (the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act) granted public authorities the power to... [05 Nov 2009]
Trio of research hubs to poke digital benefits
News The universities of Aberdeen, Newcastle and Nottingham have been selected as the trio of tech hubs charged with investigating issues including digital exclusion, healthcare and transport delivery, and the ethics of data handling in an... [29 Apr 2009]
VNUNet - Security: Is Technology Saint or Sinner?
White Paper The latest problem to be thrown at someone, on top of war, global warming, disease etc, is that one is 'sleepwalking into a surveillance society'. The worry is that, owing to all the data being collected... [21 Feb 2009]
"We must not allow ourselves to become a Big Brother society"
News Liberal Democrat shadow home secretary, Chris Huhne, said in a statement: "We are sleepwalking into a surveillance state and should remember that George Orwell's 1984 was a warning, not a blueprint. We must not allow... [10 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: ID cards face fingerprint errors ID cards: The "surveillance... [04 Aug 2008]
Citizens use YouTube to keep gov't in check
News Citizens are used to CCTV surveillance but a parliamentary group says that cameras are being turned on governments to keep them in line. Sous-veillance" will see video sharing sites such as YouTube used by citizens to... [31 Jul 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 ID cards were a hot topic... [12 Jun 2008]
ID cards: The "surveillance society" risk
News The national ID card database must not be used to turn the UK into a surveillance society, MPs have warned. The report, A Surveillance Society, cautions against the... [09 Jun 2008]
Critics attack gov't email, phone database plan
News And Jonathan Bamford, assistant information commissioner, warned in a statement: "We are sleepwalking into a surveillance society. All email, blogs, instant messaging and VoIP calls could be monitored... [20 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... dirty computers, lie detectors, T5 tech, mobile ASBOs
Comment This is yet another step towards the "trust free, surveillance society". That clearly has a price (in pounds) but the alternative price - a society in which we are all monitored,... [15 May 2008]
Heathrow 'temporarily delays' fingerprint checks
News An ICO statement said: "It is essential that before introducing new systems and technologies, which could accelerate the growth of a surveillance society, full consideration is given to minimising the... [26 Mar 2008]
Image Recognition Wide-Area Surveillance Technology for Safety and Security in Society
White Paper Surveillance is needed to create a safe and secure society. To meet this need, the paper developed a small-object detection technology for 24/7 wide-area outdoor surveillance based on an... [15 Feb 2008]
Business warning over data security
News Speaking at a conference on the surveillance society, David Smith, deputy commissioner at the ICO, described the HMRC breach as a watershed and called on organisations to implement new safeguards to... [11 Dec 2007]
Q&A: William Gibson, science fiction novelist
Comment Nobody in that room above the shop was filled with a kind of eldritch horror and a vision of a world of closed circuit surveillance - it was the last thing they were thinking. Science fiction novelist William Gibson has... [06 Aug 2007]
Opinion: Why I fear joined-up government
Comment At the forthcoming e-Crime Congress in March, this is a subject which will be examined by Cambridge University professor Ross Anderson and information commissioner Richard Thomas, who has already warned the UK may be "sleepwalking into a... [18 Jan 2007]
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