Speaking of grooming students for a surveillance state in the name of “safety,” Joanne Carroll and Rachel Grunwell report that New Zealand will let teachers search students: Teachers are to get explicit powers to search children – potentially even strip-search them – for weapons. The Government is to release draft guidelines applying to the classroom, schoolyard…
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UK: Couple’s anger as police officer caught searching private data
An East Yorkshire couple are calling for changes to be made after a police officer was caught snooping on them. Police Constable Mark Wicks, based in Hull, broke strict confidentiality rules by accessing information about Lee and Stephanie Bainbridge, of Yorklands, Driffield. It followed a boundary dispute between the Bainbridges and PC Wicks’ brother Paul…
MoD labels Facebook Places a ‘targeting pack’ for terrorists
Chris Williams reports: Security chiefs have cautioned army, navy and RAF personnel to disable Facebook Places, over fears it could be used by terrorists to identify and track targets. The new service could act as a “one stop shop targeting pack”, particularly in Northern Ireland, they warn. The Ministry of Defence is concerned about how…
Homeless wary of Alberta’s new ID-card initiative
Valerie Fortney reports that a new identity card system for the homeless or others who have no fixed address is a bit creepy: next week, the provincial government will unveil a new system in which the more than 8,500 individuals in Alberta with that dreaded “no-fixed-address” label will be able to wave a card attesting…