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UK Border Agency suspends 'flawed' asylum DNA testing
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| The UK Border Agency has quietly suspended its
| heavily-criticised attempt to test asylum seekers'
| nationality by DNA fingerprinting and isotope
| analysis.
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| Officials have been told that the "Human Provenance
| Pilot", described as "naive and scientifically
| flawed" by Sir Alec Jeffreys, the inventor of DNA
| fingerprinting, has been "temporarily suspended".
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/09/ukborder_dna_suspension/
Essex Police in DNA FOI dodge
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| A story has just appeared online on the Essex
| Gazette website, detailing the refusal of Essex
| Police to answer an eminently reasonable Freedom of
| Information Request on how many people in Essex
| have asked to have their DNA removed from the
| national database.
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http://www.bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/home/2009/10/essex-police-in-dna-foi-dodge.html
ID card support hits bottom under Brown
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| The research, carried out by ICM research, showed
| that 60 per cent of the UK population think that ID
| cards are a "bad idea" with 38 per cent saying they
| are a good idea. The national identity database -
| which will underpin the scheme - is opposed by a
| two to one majority.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/09/idcard_support/
Free software is a good anti-surveillance measure.
Recent:
ID card ad campaign to launch later this year
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| The Home Office is to spend over Â500,000 this year
| on a marketing campaign for the identity card that
| features cartoon fingerprints.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39777012,00.htm?s_cid=260
All dogs to be microchipped with owner's details to 'help track pets'
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| Owners will be forced to install the microchip
| containing a barcode that can store their pet's
| name, breed, age and health along with their own
| address and phone number.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6237084/All-dogs-to-be-microchipped-with-owners-details-to-help-track-pets.html
Castrol roadside billboard ANPR snoopvertising - another DVLA database privacy scandal
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| Remember that the definition of "personal data" includes
| partially or poorly "anonymised data", which
| can easily be cross referenced with another system
| e.g. Vehicle Number Plate and just the first part
| of the Post Code of the Registered Keeper address
| will be enough to identify the driver , in most
| cases.
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http://p10.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/blog/2009/09/27/castrol-roadside-billboard-anpr-snoopvertising---another-dvla-database-privacy-s.html
Labour minister says 14 year olds should get ID cards
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| A government minister has spoken glowingly of the prospect of kids as young
| as six handing over their biometrics as she boasted that the Tories and
| LibDems would find it impossible to unpick the governmentâs ID card scheme.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/23/id_cards_offies/
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