Charles Arthur writes in The Guardian: Dutch drivers might have wondered how it was that speed traps were always in just the right place to catch speeders. It turned out to be simple enough: if they owned a TomTom, their in-car satnav was spying on them, and the aggregated data about cars’ speed was being [...]
On 13th April Chatham House held a discussion to evaluate to what extent power has been decentralized through the web, shifting more control to the individual. The participants were: Sir David Omand GCB, Former Security and Intelligence Coordinator, Cabinet Office, UK and Visiting Professor, War Studies Department, King’s College London Guy Herbert, General Secretary, NO2ID [...]
Alice Hutton writes in the Cambridge News: The first Automatic Number Plate Recognition camera has been spotted near Royston just days after Hertfordshire police forced protesters to shut down their new anti-CCTV website. Police confirmed the camera on the A10 outside Buntingford was one of the new devices designed to create a ‘ring of steel’ [...]
Martin Beckford writes in the Daily Telegraph: A leading pressure group warns that the Government’s proposals to disclose the 900million medicine prescriptions written out each year by England’s doctors would breach privacy and stigmatise those with sensitive conditions. According to the Patients Association, publication of the drugs dispensed by individual GP practices would also damage [...]
Jane Fae Ozimek writes in The Register: European state powers to retain data about customers’ telecommunications are set to come in for a kicking with the release of an official report from the European Commission. The report, due out this afternoon, is expected to evaluate and gently prod the Commission towards taking further steps to [...]
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