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 [...]
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 [...]
James Baker writes on the LibDem Voice web site:
Despite the coalition’s initial promises it is business as usual for Whitehall data-sharing projects. What started under the program of ‘Transformational Government’ is now wrapped up in the language of ‘Open Data’. The new language is attractive – after all we all want public data to [...]
The Identity Project web site reports:
On November 17, 2011, US and European Union officials signed a renegotiated proposed agreement (original English version; official German translation) to authorize airlines to forward PNR data (travel reservations) to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). As an executive agreement, not a treaty, it doesn’t require any further US [...]
According to the Hawktalk blog:
The last Labour Government did it in spades and now the Coalition has followed suit. What is “it”? Why enacting legislation that grants Ministers wide ranging and unchecked powers concerning the processing of personal data of course. Don’t worry: it’s just our health records.
About two weeks ago, a colleague at the [...]
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