Only one crime was solved by each 1,000 CCTV cameras in London last year, a report into the city’s surveillance network has claimed. The internal police report found the million-plus cameras in London rarely help catch criminals. In one month CCTV helped capture just eight out of 269 suspected robbers. David Davis MP, the former…
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Nurseries protest over ‘intrusive’ early years qualifications database
Nurseries and early years organisations have questioned the role of a new nationwide electronic database – which will share nursery staff details and qualifications with local authorities – after one local authority threatened to pull nursery education grant funding if the information was not provided. There is no legal requirement for early years settings to…
UK file-sharers to be ‘cut off’
The UK government has published new measures that could see people who illegally download films and music cut off from the net. The amendment to the Digital Britain report would see regulator Ofcom given greater powers to tackle pirates. The technical measures are likely to include suspending the net accounts of “hardcore copyright pirates”. It…
Pirate Bay closed after court decision
Swedish file sharing website The Pirate Bay remained closed on Tuesday morning after a Stockholm court decision forced a supplier to cut off server capacity. The Stockholm District Court ordered Black Internet to stop supplying the notorious file sharing site with capacity in a ruling issued shortly after lunch on Monday. Faced with a fine…