Cary Doctorow writes: Police in Nottingham, England declared war on youth on Saturday night: anyone between 13-24 getting off a bus into town was sent through a metal-detector, and the streets were swarmed with drug-dogs that were set on young people. Something like 90% of urban England Over 1,000 English cities and towns have a…
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UK: Brown to put all Britons online
From the whatever-he’s-smoking-I’d-like-some-please dept. Brian Ferguson reports: Every person in Britain would get their own personalised website under plans by Gordon Brown to save billions of pounds by creating a paperless state. Online transactions are proposed for everything from claiming benefits and paying council tax to passport applications. However, the move, due to be rolled…
Swiss upper house approves five bank data deals
The Swiss parliament’s upper house on Wednesday approved deals with the United States and four other countries to share data on potential tax dodgers, bringing the Alpine state closer in line with international standards. Under the deals Switzerland will have banking data sharing arrangements with France, Britain, the United States, Denmark and Mexico in cases…
Little Britain star Matt Lucas sues the Daily Star over ex’s death stories
Little Britain star Matt Lucas is suing the Daily Star over stories regarding the death of his ex partner. Lucas will use the ‘Max Mosely’ defence in the High Court action – that the Richard Desmond owned publication misused private information. Legal action was taken against Express Newspapers after two stories published last October in…