Identity cards “could be used to spy on people”
Telegraph [UK]
06/08/08
Britain is in danger of becoming a ’surveillance society’ and new safeguards are needed to protect people’s privacy, an influential committee of MPs has warned. Fears are growing that the compulsory ID card scheme may be used to carry out surveillance on people and that a new children’s database may be used to identify likely future criminals. The Home Affairs Select Committee is calling on ministers to introduce new safeguards to minimise the amount of information collected and stored on Britain’s citizens following a series of data scandals...
http://tinyurl.com/5x5n7s
UK commissioners: Society “demonising” children
BBC News [UK]
06/09/08
British children are being ‘demonised’ by a society that is locking too many of them up, according to watchdogs. The joint report by children’s commissioners for all parts of the UK said attitudes towards youngsters were hardening across the country. The experts said crime committed by children had fallen between 2002 and 2006, but the numbers criminalised had gone up by just over a quarter...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7443104.stm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=identity+card
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
06/08/08
Britain is in danger of becoming a ’surveillance society’ and new safeguards are needed to protect people’s privacy, an influential committee of MPs has warned. Fears are growing that the compulsory ID card scheme may be used to carry out surveillance on people and that a new children’s database may be used to identify likely future criminals. The Home Affairs Select Committee is calling on ministers to introduce new safeguards to minimise the amount of information collected and stored on Britain’s citizens following a series of data scandals...
http://tinyurl.com/5x5n7s
UK commissioners: Society “demonising” children
BBC News [UK]
06/09/08
British children are being ‘demonised’ by a society that is locking too many of them up, according to watchdogs. The joint report by children’s commissioners for all parts of the UK said attitudes towards youngsters were hardening across the country. The experts said crime committed by children had fallen between 2002 and 2006, but the numbers criminalised had gone up by just over a quarter...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7443104.stm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=identity+card
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
rudkla - 9. Jun, 08:52
