Mark Say writes in The Guardian: The government’s approach to the collection and use of personal data is “deeply flawed”, according to a report from the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). The EHRC has joined in long running complaints from privacy activists with the publication of a report, Protecting Information Privacy, which says public [...]
Claudia Joseph writes in the Daily Mail: This extraordinarily detailed account of a single day in Angela’s life was pieced together by The Mail on Sunday from information stored in a bewildering mosaic of computer databases, both state and commercially run. We obtained the information quite legally – by asking Angela to send written requests [...]
The Manchester Evening News reports: Police used number-plate spotting technology to turn known criminals away from Manchester in the days after the riots. Officers stationed on key routes into the city have been instantly checking registration plates of vehicles against a string of national databases. Known criminals have been intercepted and ordered to turn around. [...]
Tom Peck, writing in the Independent, has collated 29 comments from various pundits about this week’s riots & looting. He reports that David Aaronovitch wrote in The Times: A certain kind of right-winger fits the riots into the pattern of moral and social decline that she imagines has afflicted British society since the 1950s … [...]
Martin Beckford writes in the Daily Telegraph: At least 216 letters have been posted with security codes for door entry and key safe boxes printed on the front of the envelopes. The confidential information is used by carers and nurses to gain entry to immobile patients’ homes. But it was wrongly added to records on [...]
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