The HotelierMiddleEast.com web site notes: An online site has been set up in the UK that allows hoteliers to blacklist bad guests. The database, GuestScan, will allow hotelier to check a guest’s credentials in a bid to avoid thieves and those who break things in rooms. The system, which is already in place in Australia…
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LR: BIN Wants National ID Cards Before 2011 Elections
Sebo Daniels reports: The Deputy Attorney General of the Republic of Liberia and Commissioner of the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, Col. C. Clarence Massaquoi has announced the re-introduction of national identity card ahead of the pending 2011 General and Presidential Elections.According to reports, the exercise is intended to streamline people living within the territorial…
7,500 Germans rally for greater data privacy
Oops… forgot to hit “publish” on this post yesterday: Some 7,500 people demonstrated Saturday in Berlin to express their concerns about personal data privacy as the German government and private companies amass giant databases, organisers said. Called out by numerous civic organisations and political parties under the banner of “Liberty Instead of Fear!”, the protestors…
UK: The secret dossier of lawbreaking that spells trouble for Rupert Murdoch…and David Cameron
And now the latest installment in what appears to be a long-running privacy soap opera, this report by Brian Brady and James Hanning: The News of the World paid a private detective to provide hundreds of pieces of confidential information, often using illegal means, a confidential document obtained by The Independent on Sunday has revealed….