Dmitri Prieto writes on the Havana Times web site, comparing his experiences of living in London and Havana: What recently happened to my friend Mario Castillo, who was arrested and fined here in Cuba for not carrying his ID, reminded me of my experiences in Great Britain. When I went to that country for a [...]
Katharine Whitehorn writes in the Observer: Bye bye bendy bus. No more identity-card threat. And now they’ve given up on that massive computer system containing everyone’s medical details, down to the last ingrowing toenail. How should we celebrate this? Memorial services for people are thanksgivings for the life, but when it comes to lousy ideas [...]
Steven Morris writes in the Guardian about technology that tracks customers as they navigate shopping centres by picking up signals from their mobile phones: Under the FootPath scheme a series of monitoring devices are installed throughout a shopping centre. The units pick up signals from a customer’s mobile phone and can pinpoint the person’s position [...]
Matthew Holehouse, John Bingham and James Kirkup write in the Daily Telegraph about proposals by Professor Norman Williams, president of the Royal College of Surgeons, for a centralised database of medical implants: “The minimum requirement is for mandatory databases to be established for all surgical implants and associated techniques. This would need funding, but the [...]
According to the Daily Telegraph: Passengers arriving at Heathrow this summer could face lengthy delays at passport control as immigration staff are being redeployed from their normal roles to collect biometric data off Olympic athletes arriving in dedicated passport lanes. Visiting athletes have been encouraged to supply biometric data – such as fingerprints and photographs [...]
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