Angus Batey writes in The Guardian: Royston has a medieval cave apparently used by the Knights Templar, a twice-weekly market and a football team that finished third in the Molten Spartan South Midlands Premier League. But one thing it does not have is much of a crime problem. A small Hertfordshire town of just 15,000 [...]
Wendy M Grossman reviews Becky Hogge’s new book Barefoot Into Cyberspace for ZDnet: Can we keep the internet open and free, a democratic medium for the rest of us? In studying this question, Becky Hogge’s flash-published Barefoot Into Cyberspace joins Jonathan Zittrain’s The Future of the Internet — and How to Stop It (2009) and [...]
Eric Doyle writes in eWeek Europe: Towards the end of the last Labour government’s tenure, The Independent newspaper reported that IT projects had wasted over £25 billion. The money was squandered on schemes that either ran over budget, suffered delays, or had been scrapped. The paper added that the cost of Labour’s 10 worst IT [...]
According to Travel Weekly: An academic leading research into the impact of advance passenger-data gathering on the travel industry says the government has left the sector to bear the burden of a policy called into question by MPs. Dr Kirstie Ball, a specialist in surveillance and organisation at the Open University Business School, said: “The [...]
Christopher Hope, and Robert Winnett write in The Daily Telegraph: The DNA of more than one million innocent people will not be wiped from police records, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. Instead the police will retain DNA profiles in anonymised form, leaving open the possibility of connecting them up with people’s names, ministers have admitted. [...]
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