Nicol Stephen vertelde in het weekend de Schotse Liberale conferentie van de Democraat die zij aan de het bepalen liberale kwestie van burgerlijke vrijheden moeten hard houden.
De arbeid dreigde om deze door detentie zonder proef te eroderen, DNA- gegevensbestanden, de kaarten van identiteitskaart, biometrie, kabeltelevisie en einde-en-onderzoeksbevoegdheden, vertelde hij afgevaardigden in bovengenoemde Aviemore.He: „Onze benadering wordt gebaseerd op een fundamenteel principe […]

DOOR SHAUN JEPSON
Vroegere Belangrijkste Constable van de Afgevaardigde van Derbyshire, die het nationale DNA- politiegegevensbestand cre�ërde, gelooft de genetische steekproeven uit iedereen bij geboorte zouden moeten worden genomen.
Trek voorgestelde Dovaston aan, zei ook dat de immigranten hun geregistreerde DNA zouden moeten hebben.
Hij gelooft de voordelen van een universeel gegevensbestand ver belangrijker dan om het even welke rechten van de menskwesties zijn. M. Dovaston zei niet alleen […]

The Telegraph
A council has decided not to install CCTV cameras in a crime-ridden area on the grounds they would “contravene the Human Rights Act”.
John Steele: Keeping an eye on CCTV
Over the past year, anti-social behaviour has soared in the South Hams area of south Devon. But the local authority claims that the cameras would breach […]

By Studs Terkel, Quentin Young, Barbara Flynn Currie and James Montgomery
More than six years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Bush administration remains committed to using the specter of those attacks (and other possible new attacks) as justification for reckless, unlawful and unconstitutional behavior. This pattern can be seen most clearly in […]

David Gutierrez
The Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is moving forward to institute a rule that would require all passengers to go through a government review process before boarding any airplane that takes off or lands anywhere with in the United States.
The U.S. government already requires international passengers to participate in the Advanced […]

Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Tether has secured a House of Commons debate on the impact of the proposed National DNA Database, which takes place today. It has been welcomed by human rights, mental health and church groups.
The campaigning organisation Black Mental Health UK (BMH UK) says that it is especially concerned about the likely discriminatory […]

Ian GrantPeople will have to give explicit permission for the government to access their personal details held on various databases before they can get a national identity card, ID card minister Meg Hillier told MPs this week.
Hillier was giving evidence to the House of Commons’ Home Affairs select committee on the security arrangements for the […]

CCTV and DNA advances add to bills but minister calls rises unacceptable
Jill Sherman, Whitehall Editor, and Murad Ahmed
Soaring costs of surveillance technology to combat crime and terrorism has contributed to the eleventh consecutive round of inflation-breaking council tax rises.
A Times/Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy survey of more than 250 authorities shows that the […]

Mixed results
A national DNA database could well increase, not reduce, the number of wrongful convictions
Allan Jamieson | The Guardian
Three killers have been convicted this month of appalling crimes. Two were implicated through DNA profiling. The aftermath has seen renewed calls for both a universal DNA database and the death penalty, bolstered by a belief that […]

Researchers at Lancaster University are developing a new generation of ‘smart tags’ to “help keep workers safe on construction sites.”

NEMO technology in development
The research project is creating tiny Radio Frequency ID (RFID) tags, with sensors and memory, which can be embedded in everyday objects - such as tools - and communicate via a network using […]

Second National Day Of Action For Freedom Of Assembly
Via Urban75
We Own The Streets - Campaign for Freedom of Assembly
Saturday 1st of March, top of Trafalgar Square (North side), 1 pm.
t’s time we had freedom to publicly assemble in the UK. The Campaign for Freedom of Assembly is calling for a second national day of action […]

Nick Heath
The latest government ID card plans have revealed people will face fines of up to £1,000 for skipping biometric scans.
Penalties ranging from £125 for not notifying the government of the loss of an ID card, to £250 for not applying for a card or missing an appointment for fingerprint and facial scans, were revealed […]

by Cory Doctorow
This German exibition is showcasing bright infrared LED devices that overwhelm the CCDs in security cameras, allowing you to move through modern society in relative privacy. I used this as a gimmick in my story I, Robot — now I want to own one!
The URA / FILOART developed device promises to the […]

Immigrants will give fingerprints, iris scans AND personal details for ID cards … or be thrown out
By JAMES SLACK
Foreigners who repeatedly flout the rules when they are made to apply for ID cards will be thrown out, the Government said yesterday.
Immigrants will have to give two fingerprints, iris scans and a raft of personal details […]

By Ryan Singel
Be careful who you frag. Having eliminated all terrorism in the real world, the U.S. intelligence community is working to develop software that will detect violent extremists infiltrating World of Warcraft and other massive multiplayer games, according to a data-mining report from the Director of National Intelligence.
The Reynard project will begin by profiling […]