Alex Massie writes in the Spectator: For all the talk of Cameron and his grasp of detail the fact remains that Miliband may, as Swot of the Lower Fourth, have the nuts and bolts but he’s wrong – hopelessly, utterly wrong – on policy. To recap, today he asked the Prime Minister: “Around 5,000 people [...]
Alan Travis writes in The Guardian: The European commission’s own lawyers have warned that a joint US-European agreement to store the personal data, including credit card details, of millions of transatlantic air passengers for 15 years is unlawful. The confidential legal opinion, passed to the Guardian, says the agreement to allow the US department of [...]
Mark Hughes writes in the Daily Telegraph: The personal details of 15 million people, a quarter of the population of Britain, will be held on a new police database which will include information about victims of crime, it has emerged. The Police National Database, which will be launched by ministers next week, will hold the [...]
Mark Ballard writes in Computer Weekly: The government is preparing to create a marketplace for citizens’ personal data to be used for accessing online public services, according to documents that were issued to industry in preparation for the coalition’s next-generation identity scheme. The plan, obtained by Computer Weekly, may prove highly controversial, as it offers [...]
According to Out-law news: A single agency will be in charge of three EU population-tracking databases under plans approved by EU ministers. The Council of Ministers have backed the creation of a centralised European agency that will manage the Schengen Information System (SIS), the Visa Information System (VIS) and the European Dactyloscopy (EURODAC), the Council [...]
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