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18-Jul-08

Privacy: 'No decision' on giant database

"No decision has been taken to create a huge database containing details of all phone calls, e-mails and internet use, security minister Lord West says."

Category: Communications

16-Jul-08

Database threatens our way of life, watchdog warns

"A proposed "super-database" tracking every phone call, text, email and internet usage in Britain in real time would be "a step too far for the British way of life", the information commissioner warned yesterday."

Category: Communications

15-Jul-08

Mobile development rings true

"Elephants might not be able to make phone calls, but that doesn't stop them carrying mobiles. It doesn't stop crocodiles or seals, either. "

Category: Communications

11-Jul-08

Voters' data 'should not be sold'

"Councils should be banned from selling edited versions of electoral rolls, a report says." "The review called for wide-scale reform, including suggesting that ministers launched their own inquiry into firms which gathered and...

Category: Communications

26-Jun-08

CCTV doesn't keep us safe, yet the cameras are everywhere

Despite a few high profile cases where CCTV cameras have solved crimes, for the most part they have not helped in reducing crime.

Category: Communications

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