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If you go shopping in Canary Wharf you’ll find that the corridors are bedecked with Christmas Trees. Some of them have this rather lovely reminder of the fact that our every movement is being monitored. I don’t know about you, but this I find that this really encourages me to enter into the Christmas Spirit.
New York Times on dangers of Computerised Health Records
There will be a paucity of updates this week because the Internet is crap I am on a training course sans Internet access… feel free to amuse yourselves in the mean time in whichever way you see fit (unless anyone wants to do this for me for the next three days – get in touch if so).
Until Monday!
Blair should ‘Apologise for Henry VIII’s’ treatment of wives, MP says
Russian ex-PM has mystery illness
… ‘Speculation is rife that he may have been poisoned.’
Release the Music: sign petition for no copyright extension
Number plate cameras could be illegal, says surveillance chief
Robyn: swedish electronica
… “The most killingest pop star on the planet.”
Apparently no2id had eight complaints about this advert
… ASA threw the complaints out.
Charlie Stross on Litvinenko poisoning
… ‘The point is, someone with access to fresh Polonium 210 (read: less than a year old, hot from the reactor) decided to use it to bump off an enemy. And the terrorism alert status hasn’t risen a notch? Pull the other one.’
Interactive whiteboard technology
Global Orgasm Day, December 22nd
… ‘peace through global ecstasy’
Longer drinking hours seem to be producing fewer problems
… Tim Worstall’s analysis
Goldsmith says he has seen no evidence to increase suspect holding time to 90 days
New Zealand Minister defends right of school girl to run amok in underwear
Parents halt mosque school trip
… “did not want their children exposed to a religion that was not their own.”
GPs threaten to snub NHS database
RFID passports less reliable than normal ones
Paintball minigun in development
Ordnance Survey New Popular Edition Maps from 1940s scanned in
… add your postcode to the map
Police to take fingerprints on street
… Henry Porter responds
Police accepted gifts from scientology allegation
… why are the police allowed to accept gifts at all?
Health service IT boss ‘failed computer studies’
… Reaction from Burning Our Money
… Article in the Inquirer
… Article in the Register
Sun security engineer talks about ID Card technology
More on FIDIS Budapest ID Card Document
… ‘Biometric ID cards an insecure menace’
I’m up for a chat on the tube day – 17th November
Addiction explained
… ‘primarily caused due to possession by either ghosts or our departed ancestors’
A judicial speech given in 1997 which still resonates today
… comment by Bystander here
Former Home Secretary brands Saddam verdict timing ‘suspect’
China bans finger printing kids in schools
… whereas we keep doing it more and more in the UK
Blair defends ID Cards, proves he still doesn’t Get It
… Longrider responds
… The Select Society responds
… Henry Porter responds
‘Home School Legal Defense Association’ comes to the UK
… this is not a good thing.
Chip and Pin allows transactions to be ‘edited’ without pin holder being present… maybe
… scary, if true.
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