Identity, Privacy and Trust
Recent Posts
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The Bespoke Internet
- Enterprise Privacy Group 20 Apr 2009 -
Set Your Videos: The Westminster Gravy Train
- Enterprise Privacy Group 15 Apr 2009 -
The Dangers of DNA Databases
- Enterprise Privacy Group 15 Apr 2009
The controversial deep-packet inspection service offered by Phorm has been making the news again. But despite some of the hostile coverage that Phorm has received, there are possible benefits as ...
If you haven't already done so, set your video, Sky+ or PVR to record Sunday's Dispatches on Channel 4. Heather Brooke, the UK's leading Freedom of Information expert, investigator and journalist, ...
Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, the scientist behind the development of DNA testing methods used in modern policing, has attacked the government DNA database. Speaking to the BBC, he said: "My concern ...
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First ID Cards Contracts Awarded
- Enterprise Privacy Group 07 Apr 2009 -
And the Academy Award goes to... Osama Bin Laden
- Enterprise Privacy Group 06 Apr 2009 -
The Value of Rubbish
- Enterprise Privacy Group 06 Apr 2009 -
Streetview - the Public Fight Back
- Enterprise Privacy Group 03 Apr 2009 -
How to Protect Your Data from Us
- Enterprise Privacy Group 28 Mar 2009 -
Don't Bring Out the GIMP
- Enterprise Privacy Group 19 Mar 2009 -
Government Scraps Coroners and Justice Clauses
- Enterprise Privacy Group 19 Mar 2009
The Identity and Passport Service has announced the award of the first two contracts under the National Identity Scheme. CSC has been awarded the £385m contract for Application and Enrolment, whist ...
The Telegraph is reporting that in trials of facial recognition scanners at Manchester Airport, the machines had such difficulty recognising people against the facial image in their passport, that ...
I had a big clear-out of my attic over the weekend, and made in-roads into 15 years' worth of junk that had taken over the top of the house. Nothing exciting there (except for a mouse-filled Xmas ...
Google has launched its Street View service in the UK to inevitable howls of protest about the privacy implications. Is it really such a big deal? And might customisation offer a compromise for all ...
The Department of Social Scrutiny has published its identity theft guide - compulsory reading for all concerned citizens.
The government is once again bigging up the need for the proposed Interception Modernisation Programme (aka the GIMP) by arguing that it's essential to collect and retain all social networking ...
The government has announced that it will withdraw clauses 152-154 of the draft Coroners and Justice Bill in the face of a broadside of criticism from opposition parties, professional bodies and ...
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Police Intelligence Fails on Data Transfers
- Enterprise Privacy Group 12 Mar 2009 -
419: The Next World Cup
- Enterprise Privacy Group 11 Mar 2009 -
Identity and Privacy 2009
- Enterprise Privacy Group 06 Mar 2009 -
An Advance-Fee Work of Art
- Enterprise Privacy Group 04 Mar 2009 -
Rise of the Celebretariat
- Enterprise Privacy Group 04 Mar 2009
The BBC is reporting that a number of police authorities have admitted to data loss incidents and misuse of police computers by staff. Of these, the most disturbing is an incident involving Gwent ...
I've just received a cracking advance-fee fraud attempt that's trying to pitch leftover funds from some "sharp practice" in the stadium construction. I can't wait to see the first one claiming to ...
I'm delighted to announce that Identity and Privacy 2009 will be held in London on 14th and 15th May 2009. [I trust you'll forgive the blatant plug for this event, but it's not often I do such a ...
I don't normally bother reporting on spam emails, since we all accept them as part of the dot-com world. I assume that they must still work, otherwise the Lads from Lagos wouldn't keep sending ...
In yet another chilling demonstration of the burgeoning 'us and them' culture that has developed in Westminster over recent years, MPs have voted for their home addresses to be kept secret and not ...