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Our data is already online | Michael Cross | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
After a few minutes' work on www.192.com and Google, I knew the traveller's full name, date of birth, address, the names of his wife and grown-up children, how much he had paid for his home and the size of his (substantial) remuneration from various directorships.
Blood & Treasure: think of the children
Confidential details of every one of Britain's 11 million children, along with their parents and carers, are to be gathered in the ContactPoint database accessible to over 300,000 people
Blood & Treasure: knowledge problem
Data is magic to governments and has been since the Romans used censuses to establish accurate tax rolls, predict revenue, and borrow accordingly.
Blood & Treasure: mined for ideas
former Whitehall security and intelligence co-ordinator, sets out a blueprint for the way the state will mine data - including travel information, phone records and emails
BBC NEWS | UK | Phone calls database considered
Ministers are to consider plans for a database of electronic information holding details of every phone call and e-mail sent in the UK
Remixes of the paranoid London police "anti-terror"/suspect your neighbours posters - Boing Boing
mock the ridiculous new "anti-terrorism" posters the London police have put up that tell you to spy on your neighbors
Revealed: Britain's secret propaganda war against al-Qaida | World news | The Guardian
a Whitehall counter-terrorism propaganda operation is promoting material to the BBC and other media
July 28, 1858: Fingerprints Go Official
China's T'ang Dynasty (618 to 907 A.D.) used fingerprints as a source of identification.
Government tenders for ID scheme supplier | 14 Aug 2007 | ComputerWeekly.com
UK national ID scheme may cost 5.5 bln pounds.
…My heart’s in Accra » Seduced by BBC’s maps of British infrastructure
mapping the flow of air traffic, ferries across the Channel and the massive grid of telephone lines.
The dustbin Stasi: Half of councils use anti-terror laws to watch people putting rubbish out on the wrong day | Mail Online
More than half of town halls admit using anti-terror laws to spy on families suspected of putting their rubbish out on the wrong day.
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More than half of town halls admit using anti-terror laws to spy on families suspected of putting their rubbish out on the wrong day.
Great Firewall of Britain « The Nock Blog
flow chart of how GFB resets connection for Wikipedia, Ning
Cory Doctorow: why personal data is like nuclear waste | Technology | guardian.co.uk
How long does this information need to be kept private? A century is probably a good start
Subtopia: Floating Prisons, and Other Miniature Prefabricated Islands of Carceral Territoriality
Floatels and Prison Bulks
The day Agent Zigzag came back from the dead - Times Online
there's footage of Chapman out there
Agent Zigzag - Ben Macintyre - Books - Review - New York Times
Nursing a colossal hangover and clutching a suitcase filled with photographic equipment, Zigzag parachuted over Cambridgeshire and promptly vomited the remains of his banquet on his overalls. - Ed. Bad. Ass.
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