A database developer sacked for lying on his CV hacked into systems to spy on his former colleagues and delete emails.
Julius Oladiran, 46, was dismissed from after his employers discovered his boasts of a master’s degree, and top Government jobs were all lies.
Desperate to know what people were saying about him, the conman installed spyware on [...]

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On 29 January the EEMA (European Association for e-identity and Security) and the Digital Identity Forum are holding a seminar entitled “The Business Use and Applications of the UK National Identity Card”
Have a read of this from their website:
Over a period of time, public opinion, as measured by opinion [...]

Welsh Lib Dem AM Peter Black brings our attention to Cabinet Minister James Purnell who has misplaced important documents for a second time.
Rather than poke fun at the unfortunate Mr Purnell, I’d like to second what Peter Black says:
The purpose of this post is not to draw attention to Mr. Purnell’s double whammy, though he [...]

Tayside Police said systems installed in local businesses to protect staff and deter shoplifters are often not properly maintained.

Crime prevention officers are urging firms and shops with CCTV cameras to check their system is working properly.
Most large towns and cities have public CCTV monitored by police and supplemented by large stores and shops with in-house [...]

Reports that police have been granted new powers to snoop on your PC without a warrant have been denied by the Home Office.
 
According to the Sunday Times report, the Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan via Europe to allow police across Britain to conduct “remote searching”. It allows police or MI5 officers to [...]

Police have used anti-terrorism legislation to stop more than 60,000 people near railway lines between October 2007 and September 2008.
 
The figures, unveiled by the Liberal Democrats, show that a further 60,000 people were stopped using stop-and-search powers.

 
There is a wide interest in railways in this country and to stop someone simply for taking a photograph [...]

From The Register:
Almost one in ten records within HMRC’s framework database contain errors, according to figures unveiled by Conservative MP Justine Greening.
The frameworks database only contains quite simple information - first, second and surname, title, sex, data of birth, address and National Insurance number. Which begs the question of how many errors more complicated government records [...]

Following yesterday’s post on the child surveillance tool ContactPoint, comes the news that a London borough are to encourage parents to keep their children’s details secret.
If the communications initiative by the Borough of Kensington and Chelsea catches on, the Government will come under serious pressure to abandon the costly and controversial database.
Merrick Cockell, the leader [...]

As “Auld Lang Syne” rings out around the world, stop for a moment to take a look at what horrors are in store over the next 12 months.
We have the ludicrously expensive ID card monster crawling into action. The National Identity Register, the backbone for the cards. The DNA database, soundly slammed by Europe. The [...]

According to today’s Guardian, the private sector will be asked to manage and run a communications database that will keep track of everyone’s calls, emails, texts and internet use. This latest step towards a full surveillance state will be revealed in a consultation paper to be published next month by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith.
The article hints [...]