Posted on 10 February 2009. Tags: cctv, data protection, dna profiles, encryption, identity card scheme, ndnad, privacy, secrecy, surveillance
In August 2004 the Information Commissioner Richard Thomas warned against the possibility of the UK sleepwalking into what he referred to as a “surveillance society†in which the tools of mass surveillance have become ubiquitous and individual privacy a thing of the past. Read the full story
Posted in Civil Liberties
Posted on 10 February 2009. Tags: cctv, data protection, dna profiles, encryption, identity card scheme, ndnad, privacy, secrecy, surveillance
“We regard privacy and the application of executive and legislative restraint to the use of surveillance and data collection powers as necessary conditions for the exercise of individual freedom and liberty.†Not the words of a committed civil liberties’ campaigner Read the full story
Posted in Civil Liberties