Amberhawk Training reports on how MPS views stored communications in terms of privacy protections: The voicemail hacking incident is still exercising MPs – especially the Labour ones who did little to protect individual privacy during the party’s decade in power (see last week’s blog). So when Assistant Commissioner John Yates of the Metropolitan Police Service…
Category: Non-U.S.
UK: More people recognizing the down side of surveilling students
It is encouraging to see so many people starting to challenge the extensive use of surveillance in schools. Gavin Atchison reports: Half of York’s secondary schools have been filming pupils on CCTV without telling parents, sparking condemnation from privacy campaigners. An investigation by The Press has found that while all ten secondaries in the city…
UK: Naughty hotel guests to be blacklisted
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…
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…