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 [...]
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 [...]
Jane Fae Ozimek writes in The Register: European state powers to retain data about customers’ telecommunications are set to come in for a kicking with the release of an official report from the European Commission. The report, due out this afternoon, is expected to evaluate and gently prod the Commission towards taking further steps to [...]
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries writes in a blog on the Wall Street Journal web site about US plans for online authentication: Online passwords are a pain: They can be tough to remember and easy to break. But the Obama administration says it wants to help fix this. The Department of Commerce introduced a plan Friday for a [...]
According to Euractiv (“the independent media portal fully dedicated to EU affairs”): As terrorists’ travel routes become more complex, a majority of EU member states are rallying behind a UK-led campaign to extend a proposal on collecting air passenger data to people travelling within Europe. Passenger Name Records (PNR) refer to information provided by passengers [...]
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