Surveillance News has created a rough guide to privacy, legislation and relevant UK news stories using Timetoast. Just click the image and interact with the timeline. Please do point out any major omissions.
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Among the chief offenders on the privacy infringement front is the National DNA database which has come under fire again today after police agreed to delete Tory MP Damien Green’s record. In his statement today, he insisted that all innocent people should be removed from the database. Last week, there was controversy over more than [...]
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Although headlines about Big Brother databases and BBC scare programmes have flared up particularly this summer, the media have been panicking about databases for some time, as indicated by Google Insights (click image to see original). Why the peak at 2005? Add the dates, and things perhaps become a little clearer. It was when the [...]
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In case you hadn’t worked out quite what the government is after with the Intercept Modernisation Programme, here is a handy visual summary.
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Comment: If Facebook fans were votes…
During his interview with Surveillance News yesterday, UK Pirate Party leader Andrew Robinson was chuffed to have recently pipped Labour’s attempts to, ah, get down with the kids. Earlier this week, the PPUK Facebook group overtook the Labour Party, with 6691 members compared to 6356 for Labour. Admittedly, if you take the number of group [...]
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