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Big Brother is watching your car journeys

Posted by James Hammerton @ 6:06 pm on 20 June, 2010.
Categories privacy and surveillance, British politics, the database state, freedom of information.
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Big Brother Watch, via a FOI request made by HMP Britain, have found that 7.6 billion journeys have been logged by Britain’s Automated Number Plate Recognition camera network. In response to a question about how long the data is retained for the reply stated:

ANPR read data is stored only for as long as is operationally necessary and not routinely more than two years.

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The EU want to keep a record of every internet search - Big Brother Watch

Posted by James Hammerton @ 5:26 pm on 6 June, 2010.
Categories privacy and surveillance, the database state, European Union politics, culture of suspicion.
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Guardian: Surveillance cameras in Birmingham track Muslims’ every move

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Categories privacy and surveillance, British politics, the database state.
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Coalition performs u-turn on the Summary Care Record

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Categories privacy and surveillance, British politics, the database state.
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Britain’s coalition government promises to strengthen civil liberties

Posted by James Hammerton @ 10:34 pm on 15 May, 2010.
Categories privacy and surveillance, political liberties, democracy and the rule of law, freedom of speech, British politics, the database state, freedom of information, European Convention on Human Rights.
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Labour’s misleading claims on DNA

Posted by James Hammerton @ 6:22 pm on 11 April, 2010.
Categories privacy and surveillance, British politics, the database state.
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There is no need to retain the DNA profiles of all arrestees

Posted by James Hammerton @ 6:49 pm on 7 March, 2010.
Categories privacy and surveillance, democracy and the rule of law, British politics, the database state.
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Banned from working with vulnerable people because the ISA thinks you’re lonely?!

Posted by James Hammerton @ 8:49 pm on 28 February, 2010.
Categories privacy and surveillance, democracy and the rule of law, British politics, the database state, culture of suspicion.
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Britons to be asked for NI number, date of birth and signature to get right to vote

Posted by James Hammerton @ 5:04 pm on 24 January, 2010.
Categories privacy and surveillance, democracy and the rule of law, British politics, the database state.
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Less than a third of ‘innocents’ get DNA removed

Posted by James Hammerton @ 8:00 pm on 9 January, 2010.
Categories privacy and surveillance, British politics, the database state, European Convention on Human Rights.
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