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  1. Oh the European Union ! by bigscience · · Score: 2 · on Plans For Widespread Monitoring of Communication In Europe Revealed

    Well the way things are going in the EU it doesn't seem likely it will be around in 10 or 12 years time. They are already breaking up in terms of monetary union. Besides which, every story like this attracts a whole flurry of comments like "OMG the government is gonna be watching us - time to go live on the moon" I dont see what is wrong with trying to stop people accessing information which is clearly only there to either assist in weapons making or to provide resources for people who want to cause widespead terror. What is more frightening is the demands the British government are seeking to put on Wikipedia regarding the monitoring and blocking of certain web pages to british citizens http://www.publictechnology.net/news/wikipedia-boss-wont-support-technologically-incompetent-uk-govt-web-plan/37139 The Home Office has admitted it cannot force foreign companies like Google and Facebook to hand over sensitive personal data and is relying on people like Wales to agree to do so voluntarily. Elsewhere World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee also weighed in against the bill. "In Britain, like in the US, there has been a series of Bills that would give government very strong powers to, for example, collect data. I am worried about that," he told The Times. "If the UK introduces draconian legislation that allows the Government to block websites or to snoop on people, which decreases privacy, in future indexes they may find themselves further down the list."

  2. Re:yeah, it'll weigh on them by BeerCat · · Score: 1 · on UK Government Loses 15 Million Private Records

    It makes me worry about who else has access to which servers containing all the other masses of government data.


    Most of it is not accessible to the government employees, as it has been outsourced. In the case of HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), an announcement was made about "re-structuring its IT outsourcing contract" - on the same day (8th November) that the data actually was reported missing.
  3. ID chips in Passports...how is this secure? by dontbflat · · Score: 1 · on E-Passport In the Works

    I ask because I thought there was already a story in the news how at defcon they hacked a passport ID system. This article tells about it. I mean if yu want something secure, your going to have to do betther than a chip. And in order for it to be really effective, everyone must replace their drivers license with the new passport. Otherwise you will give hackers 10 years to make a really effective fake.

  4. Re:Welcome to 1984! by BasilBrush · · Score: 1 · on Britain to log all vehicle movement

    Why wait. The police did a pilot with 23 police forces between 2003 and 2004. The results were spectacularly good. 13,000 arrests attributable to the system, and an arrest rate per police constable 9 times higher than the national average.

    http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=mod load&name=News&file=article&sid=2008
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/humanrights/story/0,7369 ,1271120,00.html

  5. Re:Im really bad at topics/subjects by kirun · · Score: 1 · on SUSE Awarded EAL4 Certification

    ...and made EDS nearly the sole vendor for all IT for the Navy...

    This is the same EDS that keeps screwing up all those important govenment systems? The EDS that managed to take down 60,000 PCs? They let that EDS run military systems?

  6. Perri 6 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on People with real l337 speak names?

    There is a UK academic called Perri 6 who has written a number of books/articles about robotics and government (not sure if they were on both at the same time) See this article for example.