Tom Whitehead writes in the Daily Telegraph about errors in Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checks:
The true number of people who were wrongly linked to crimes or misrepresented is ten times greater than annual Home Office figures suggest, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
The scale of errors made in background checks was only revealed through Freedom of [...]
Lori MacVittie writes at ZDnet:
The term big data has come to mean big headaches for IT organisations and big problems for consumers. Privacy is a growing concern as more and more data is not only collected but voluntarily shared by consumers in exchange for free access to applications and functionality.
Those wondering how much sites such [...]
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 [...]
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 mercifully [...]
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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