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 year to [...]
The Huffington Post reports:
Theresa May suppressed a Home Office report that found changes to the DNA database would make it harder to catch murderers and rapists, according to Labour.
The House of Commons is expected to pass the Protection of Freedom Bill on Monday. Under government’s plans only adults convicted or cautioned will have their [...]
According to the Irish Examiner, the Eire government is introducing an “ID card” for benefit claimants:
A new ID card is being rolled out from next week in a bid to stamp out social welfare fraud.
The biometric card will carry information on a chip to ensure those claiming payments are actually entitled to them.
The Public Services [...]
R. Ramakumar, Associate Professor with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, writes in The Hindu comparing India’s ID card project with the last Labour governments’:
Two countries. Two pet projects of the respective Prime Ministers. Unmistakable parallels in the discourse. “The case for ID cards is a case not about liberty, but about the [...]
Charles Arthur writes in The Guardian:
Dutch drivers might have wondered how it was that speed traps were always in just the right place to catch speeders. It turned out to be simple enough: if they owned a TomTom, their in-car satnav was spying on them, and the aggregated data about cars’ speed was being sold [...]
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