Well done the Director of Public Prosecutions: Outgoing Director of Public Prosecutions Sir Ken Macdonald warned that the expansion of technology by the state into everyday life could create a world future generations “can’t bear”. In his wide-ranging speech, Sir Ken appeared to condemn a series of key Government policies, […]
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Information anarchy at the MoD
The MoD loses a computer hard drive with the private details of 100,000 members of the Armed Forces and their families, plus 600,000 applicants and their referees. In four years, 658 laptops have been stolen and, since January, 26 memory sticks of classified data have been lost. read more | […]
Read MoreJenni Russell: The all-seeing state is about to end privacy
The minute we become of interest to anyone in authority – perhaps because we take part in a demonstration, have an argument with a security guard at an airport, spend too long on a website, or are witness to a crime – the police or the security services will be […]
Read MoreGovernment will spy on every call and e-mail – Times Online
More on the Government’s plans for a panopticon state: Ministers are considering spending up to £12 billion on a database to monitor and store the internet browsing habits, e-mail and telephone records of everyone in Britain. GCHQ, the government’s eavesdropping centre, has already been given up to £1 billion to […]
Read MoreSkype spies give pause for thought in China – Times Online
Chinese Skype users had been delighted to find a way to circumvent their state panopticon, until they found Skype’s Chinese partner had been archiving politically-sensitive words and messages. Back on May 20, the Times reported plans for the UK’s own phone, email and web browsing database. Time we woke up? […]
Read MoreThousands of personal files stolen from RAF base
The Telegraph reports: The details of up to 50,000 serving and ex-service personnel are at risk after three USB portable hard disc drives were stolen from an RAF station, the Ministry of Defence has admitted. Also in The Times. So that’s personal details of me, my wife and many of […]
Read MoreTelegraph: “Police will keep driving records for five years”
According to the Telegraph: Police plan to map all journeys made by drivers on major roads and store the data for five years. A national network of roadside cameras will be able to read 50 million number plates each day enabling officers to reconstruct the movements of motorists. In one […]
Read MoreData on 5,000 prison staff lost
The details, of employees of the National Offender Management Service in England and Wales, including prison staff, were lost by private firm EDS. Time for a radically different approach to privacy? read more
Read MoreEU plan: The rise and rise of the securocrats
The creation of an EU-US common security area by 2014 and “convergence” on surveillance and data gathering, redefining “home affairs” as a matter of EU internal security. This story is reported at least by the Telegraph and the Guardian. The original leaked report is here. To say the least, I […]
Read More“Safe in our cages”
A C Grayling asks: Will every individual have to be a tight-lipped, right-thinking, timid, dutiful, obedient, queue-forming clone to escape the censure of the unblinking eye now being opened by the state upon us? I will not reproduce his remarks and arguments further, nor his despair. I will only ask […]
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