Back in February I wrote a very angry sweary blog post about airport scannersand about how the Australian federal government had decided that they’d be installed at all Australian international airports, and I explained, not for the first time, how that would influence my travelling decisions in the future. PASSENGERS at airports across Australia will be forced to undergo full-body scans or be banned from flying under new laws to…
The Telegraph’s Alexis Dormany is suspicious of people like your humble servant who are anonymous on the web, behind noms de plume. Very… unsettling. He is torn between castigating megacorps for wanting to know everything about their customers and damning the web-facility for saddos to build whole fantasy IDs and lives online, potentially (at least, arguably) damaging themselves and others. He seems to disenfranchise perfectly innocent citizens who wish to contribute…
Last month on my own blog I wrote that there seemed to be a bizarre game of international keeping up with the Joneses going on in that every nation with a significant News Corp presence seemed determined to be able to say “Yes, yes, those evil Murdoch hacks have, er, hacked our phones too”. 9/11? Yes, they must have done it then, surely. If they did for the London bombings…
…but don’t, whatever you do, watch the men dealing with the birdies! Hertfordshire police officers told a photographer he would could be sued thousands of pounds for taking picturesof his neighbour’s garden.Simon Richardson took pictures of Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) employees who were working next door while he stood in the street. Just hours later, Mr Richardson says he was visited by the police, who told…
The father of a 12-year-old boy who hanged himself in his York bedroom says he is planning to challenge a coroner’s handling of the inquest. Mike Wilson said he was “very disappointed” by York Coroner Donald Coverdale’s decision not to read out a note left by Liam Cole before he died. Airing private matters in public is never easy, even more so when talking about a child. He said he…
A police scheme which uses anonymised A&E data to work out crime hotspots in Cardiff has been so successful it is to be rolled out across the country. Officers have cut the number of violent incidents, from fist fights to stabbings, by over 40 per cent by counting where they occur according to the records of those admitted to hospital. The police then focused resources on those areas. The results…
The public believes that judges have been too ready to issue gagging orders to enable celebrities and rich business people to protect their privacy, an opinion poll for The Independent discloses today. I can only assume that came as a shock to the ‘Indy’, so fair play to them for printing it, instead of quietly junking the report… People appear to have little sympathy with those high-profile film, television and…
Last year the Piss Poor Policies Coalition and U-Turn Cam decided that an ID card was a bad idea. But it seems that son a of a B…..aronet (and alien reptile in disguise) George ‘Slasher’ Osborne is secretly planning to introduce a “new” one. According to “Slasher” ‘It will aim to reliably identify users of government websites, as part of plans to deliver more public services via the web.’ George…
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