Archive for April, 2011

A Government Plan for IDs to Replace Online Passwords

Posted at Friday, April 15th, 2011 by andrew

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries writes in a blog on the Wall Street Journal web site about US plans for online authentication: Online passwords are a pain: They can be tough to remember and easy to break. But the Obama administration says it wants to help fix this. The Department of Commerce introduced a plan Friday for a [...]

Drivers beware: ANPR cameras being installed across Peterborough

Posted at Wednesday, April 13th, 2011 by andrew

Peterborough is the latest town to have a network of hidden ANPR cameras installed. Adam Uren writes in the Peterborough Evening Telegraph: More than 20 cameras are being placed at covert locations across Peterborough in a £638,000 scheme to catch wanted criminals. Major routes in and out of Peterborough will now be monitored by Automatic [...]

May accused of betraying ‘database state’ promise

Posted at Friday, April 8th, 2011 by andrew

Ian Dunt writes on the Politic.co.uk web site: Theresa May is poised to back an expansion of the database containing details of European air passengers, despite promises to roll back the ‘database state’. The home secretary wants passenger data to be held for six years, rather than the 30 days posited by the EU. She [...]

Celebrities excluded from care record

Posted at Wednesday, April 6th, 2011 by andrew

Laura Passi writes in GP magazine Pulse: Celebrities, politicians and other patients whose information is regarded as sensitive will be exempted from the automatic creation of a Summary Care Record, under latest guidance from Connecting for Health. Public figures and other vulnerable patients will be able to request that a sensitive flag is added to [...]

What is happening in the world of Speed Cameras?

Posted at Monday, April 4th, 2011 by andrew

Mike Barrett reports for the Pocket GPS World web site on an ANPR camera trade show: Siemens is the new kid on the block and SafeZone is currently awaiting HOA which is expected to be signed off in May or June. Seimens hit the news recently when there was a trial was conducted outside a [...]

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