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« Previous EntriesDissident “threat” at all time high, despite MI5 “huge effort.”
Saturday, November 8th, 2008By Brian Walker | The police assessment is, in fact, that the dissident threat is at an all-time high.” This is the theme of a major report by David McKittrick in today’s Independent. It follows up evidence given this week by the Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde to the Commons NI select committee. McKittrick quotes: MI5 and the Special Branches in ...
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House of Lords minor amendment to the Counter-Terrorism Bill - removing your innocent DNA from Government databases
Saturday, November 8th, 2008Spy Blog | The House of Lords has voted to accept a minor Opposition Amendment regarding the removal of innocent people's DNA profiles, human tissue samples and fingerprints from centralised Government database, during the first part of the Report stage of the controversial Counter-Terrorism Bill 2008 See the debate and the vote: ...
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Surveillance Overload
Saturday, November 8th, 2008By Christian Harris | The world’s gone security crazy. Everywhere we go stronger measures are being implemented to combat impersonation, ID theft and fraud. Following news that a leading chain of kiddie’s nurseries in the UK is requiring parents to use fingerprint scanners before collecting their brood, the Post Office has that it is also planning a fingerprinting service to stop scumbags making off with our giros. The Government ...
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Britain’s Digital Surveillance: Hiding from Her Majesty’s “Black Boxes”
Saturday, November 8th, 2008By Christopher Parsons | http://www.christopher-parsons.com There are plans to deploy ‘black boxes’ in UK ISPs’ networking hubs so that the government can capture and record every website that UK citizens visit. A similar operation is in full swing in the United States, where the NSA has hooked up their own ‘black boxes’ to American Internet Service Providers’ (ISPs) networks to capture ‘questionable content’ passing through these networks. Unlike the Americans, ...
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The DNA database and you
Friday, November 7th, 2008How big is it? How many get off it? Your questions answered... By David Mery Special Report The National DNA Database (NDNAD) keeps growing: it now holds more than five million DNA profiles of individuals. Getting off the database, if you have been sampled by England or Wales forces, remain as unlikely as ever. And it remains difficult to make sense of ...
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Timeline: How National ID cards have become a reality
Friday, November 7th, 2008The UK ID card will be a reality for foreign nationals later on this month and in Britons hands next year. We look at its long and often tortuous process in 2008. By Asavin Wattanajantra 23 January 2008: Leaked documents reveal the Conservative Party's plan to push back the ID card roll-out three years, until after the next election. The news comes after various high-profile data breaches at ...
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Forget ID cards, those in charge can’t keep anything secret
Thursday, November 6th, 2008By Ross Brewster | It’s exactly a year since a computer disc holding the details of 25 million people mysteriously went missing. You would think that a Government still misguidedly propagating the idea of ID cards would, at the very least, have tidied up its act over the protection of information about the public. But no. Since last November there has been a catalogue of incidents which show that ...
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City Airport to run ID cards trial
Thursday, November 6th, 2008By Danny Brierley | LONDON City Airport has agreed to a trial of the Government's identity card scheme, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was due to announce today. Workers at the site in Newham and at Manchester Airport will be the first to be issued with biometric cards, which will contain fingerprint information. The airports will roll out the cards during an 18-month evaluation period. A Home Office spokesman denied the trial ...
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Post Offices could take your fingerprints
Thursday, November 6th, 2008By Karl Flinders | Government will ask businesses to bid to become centres to collect biometric data for ID cards, in the latest move in its plan to create a biometric database of the population. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is today expected to call on businesses to help the government run booths where people could give their fingerprints. The Post Office is being tipped to be one of the ...
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Reining in the influence industry
Saturday, November 1st, 2008By David Miller | It comes as no surprise that the European Commission is relaxed about Peter Mandelson’s meetings with the aluminium magnate, Oleg Deripaska, at a time when the trade commissioner was party to discussions that would affect the business of the Russian. Brussels has long had a reputation as being unaccountable to public opinion. Despite the commission’s attempts to open up EU decision-making to greater public scrutiny – ...
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Genuine UK Activists Invade and Occupy UK Power Plant
Friday, October 31st, 2008Because they care about the issue -- not about Youtube hits, UK truthers take note ;) By Alex Felsinger | The crown jewel of Greenpeace’s naval arm, the Rainbow Warrior, pulled in to the harbor alongside the Kingsnorth coal-fired power plant today before six activists stormed the facility to prepare to project video of impacts of global warming onto the plant’s giant smokestack. The action comes mere ...
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Passport Service dismisses 14 for database abuses
Friday, October 31st, 2008The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) says it has dismissed 14 people over the last three years in relation to passport database abuses.The IPS is now closely involved in building the government's national identity card database. Of 16 cases where data protection is said to have been breached, all but one involved members of staff who had legitimate access to the Passport Application Support System database. But those ...
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Capitalism is bankrupt
Friday, October 31st, 2008Their system creates recession, hunger and climate chaos, but they want you to pay Until A few weeks ago, supporters of free market capitalism were confident enough to proclaim that their system was the only way that the world could be organised. Now their certainties have vanished. The economic crisis that started in banking and finance has spread quickly to the wider economy. Now it threatens to engulf whole countries, bringing ...
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Civilian ID cards ‘will not thwart terrorists’
Thursday, October 30th, 2008Claims that identity cards will protect against terrorism are 'absolute bunkum' - says an expert at the government's intelligence agency. JOHN HIGGINSON The £4billion card scheme is really part of Labour's agenda to cut costs and bureaucracy by ensuring public bodies can share information, said Harvey Mattinson, a senior consultant at spy station GCHQ. 'You cannot share information without identity authentication,' he told the Society of IT Management's ...
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Explosion of Mandatory Police Searches on British Citizens
Monday, October 27th, 2008By Mick Meaney - RINF | Last weekend Lancashire police and the Lancashire County Council’s Safer Travel Unit began stop and search procedures on members of the public travelling to and from Lancaster bus station. The 'Gateway Check' consisted of 2 airport style metal detectors, handheld metal detectors and frisking travellers as they left the station. When questioned about the operation, one officer stated: "Due to recent anti social behaviour and knife crime ...
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