Ian Quinn writes in the GP’s magazine, Pulse: The Department of Health has backed down over the Summary Care Record and today agreed all uploading of records in areas subject to the recent accelerated rollout will be stopped until GPs and patients have been properly consulted. Ministers caved in to demands from the BMA after [...]
Jane Fae Ozimek writes in The Register: Big Brother Watch has high hopes that the next government might listen to what it has to say on on the intersection of technology and civil liberties. Only occasionally alarmist, Big Brother Watch are generally sound – and this manifesto, compiled with a little help from NO2ID and [...]
Deborah Orr writes in The Guardian: Labour has governed badly because it has sought to wield authoritarian power over the private lives of ordinary people – eat your greens, get an ID card, get checked by the Criminal Records Bureau, don’t drink, don’t take drugs, don’t get pregnant too young, don’t be a lapdancer; while [...]
Nick Clegg writes in Computer Weekly: High price of government snooping So new technology can help deliver fairness. But if we have learnt anything from Gordon Brown’s Labour government, it is that it can also be used to limit freedom. Britain has 1% of the world’s population, but 20% of its CCTV cameras. Every minute, [...]
Tom Wells writes in The Sun: Bungling officials have labelled 15,000 innocent people as criminals in the past six years, The Sun can reveal. The blunders by the Criminal Records Bureau, a Home Office agency, amount to around seven smears every day. The victims discovered they had been branded sex offenders, violent thugs or fraudsters [...]
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