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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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United we stand – against bendy buses, identity cards and other lousy ideas

Posted at Sunday, January 8th, 2012 by andrew

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 [...]

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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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