Oliver Kamm writes: Paul Waugh of the Evening Standard writes an excellent political blog, which I enjoy reading. But he’s inexplicably veered into nonsense on the question of bloggers’ anonymity. His starting point is the decision by Brooke Magnanti to out herself as the blogger and former call girl Belle de Jour. I’ve read Ms…
UK Health Department to Require Snooping Into Private Homes
If Croydon council’s placement of CCTV cameras inside private homes to monitor unsuspecting people outside on the street creeps you out, read on, because your UK home is no longer your castle and government intrusiveness is running amok… Joe Wolverton, II reports: Just when they thought they could not be under more surveillance or monitored…
Secret CCTV cameras INSIDE people’s homes spy on neighbours outside
CCTV cameras are being fitted inside family homes by council ‘snoopers’ to spy on neighbours in the street outside, it was revealed today. The £1,000 security cameras have been placed inside properties but are trained on the streets to gather evidence of anti-social behaviour. Each device is linked to a laptop computer and accessible online…
Zw: Hands off civil servants’ data, PSC tells WB
Sydney Kawadza reports: The Public Service Commission has blocked an attempt by the World Bank to access the personal data of State employees, which it claims it needs for an audit of the civil service. Senior Government officials on Monday said the World Bank’s request was in contravention of certain laws and they suspected the…