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Essex Police staff resign over illegal database access

Posted at Monday, January 16th, 2012 by andrew

According to Information Age:
Eight employees of Essex Police, including three police officers, have resigned after allegedly accessing the personal records of citizens contained in the Police National Computer.
One of the officers and a community support officer face criminal charges of gross misconduct for illegally accessing and sharing the data.
Essex Police analysed the data access histories [...]

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Stop this energy smart meter ‘fiasco’, UK.gov urged

Posted at Monday, January 16th, 2012 by andrew

Andrew Orlowski writes at The Register:
So-called ’smart meters’ are under renewed attack – this time from MPs and Which? magazine, which has recommended a halt to the programme.
Later in the week the Public Accounts Committee is expected to be critical of the ambitious scheme, which comes at a high (£11bn+) cost to consumers, and which [...]

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Shopping centre tracking system condemned by civil rights campaigners

Posted at Thursday, January 5th, 2012 by andrew

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 to [...]

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Breast implant scandal: Andrew Lansley indicates support for register

Posted at Wednesday, January 4th, 2012 by andrew

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 NHS [...]

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Scrap metal dealers to demand ID

Posted at Thursday, December 29th, 2011 by andrew

David Millward writes in the Daily Telegraph:

People selling scrap metal will have to show proof of identity under a pilot scheme which comes into force next week.
An estimated 240 dealers in north east England have signed up to the project which could be rolled out to the rest of the country as the Government looks [...]

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