Investigative reporter Duncan Campbell writes in The Register, reflecting how 9/11 has torpedoed resistance to intrusion and undermined privacy rights born of earlier struggles. He includes a section on ANPR: Twenty-five years ago, Independent science correspondent Steve Connor and I wrote a tome about Britain’s Databanks and the effect of growing data processing on civil [...]
According to Car Finance: Only 7% of drivers have checked whether their car is correctly listed as insured on the Motor Insurance Database website AskMID, a survey by the AA suggests. Some 93% haven’t bothered to check the site which is used to compare insurance details with DVLA data. Since June, you have had to [...]
Kathleen Hall writes in Computer Weekly: The government will not be using Facebook as part of its Digital Identity Assurance project – a key platform in the Cabinet Office drive to get more citizens accessing public sector services online – because Whitehall does not trust the way the social network uses customer data. Digital Identity [...]
Linda Geddes writes in New Scientist: Peter Hamkin was pulling pints in a bar in Merseyside, UK, in 2003, when he was arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman in Italy a year earlier. Italian police had requested a search of the UK DNA database and claimed he was a perfect match, and that he [...]
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