Дэвид Gutierrez
Отдел администрацияа ценных бумаг перевозки обеспеченностью Homeland (TSA) двигает вперед для того чтобы учредить правило требовало бы, что все пассажиры пошли через процесс просмотрения правительства перед восхождением на борт любого самолета take off или приземляется где-либо с в Соединенными Штатами.
США. правительство уже требует, что международные пассажиры участвуют в предварительном […]

Либеральный демократ, котор MP Сара привязывает обеспечивал дом debate общих на ударе предложенной национальной базы данных ДНАА, которая осуществляет сегодня. Оно было приветствовано правами человека, умственным здоровьем и группами церков.
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 […]

Credit and debit cards have taken the place of cash for most modern transactions. What’s next? According to research from Emme Kozloff, a Sanford Bernstein analyst, the power to buy groceries will soon be at your fingertips.
Wal Mart and Costco are looking into biometric payment systems. These work by recognizing the fingerprint of registered users. […]

DNA strings could become the template for nanotubes and nanowires by 2028
By Sharon Gaudin
Looking for a way to continually shrink computer chips while still squeezing more transistors onto them, IBM scientists are working on a whole new way to build processors — using DNA.
For the past year and a half, researchers at IBM have been […]

Parliament has never been less vigilant about the many measures to increase Home Office power. In the name of the great democrats of the past, act now
Henry Porter
Following the convictions of Steve Wright for the murder of five women in Ipswich and of Mark Dixie for the murder of Sally Anne Bowman it was inevitable […]

Phone numbers and credit card data to be collected under expanded EU plan

Airline passengers will be monitored at every stage of their journey under the proposals. Photograph: David Levene
Ian Traynor
Passengers travelling between EU countries or taking domestic flights would have to hand over a mass of personal information, including their mobile phone numbers and credit […]