A 29 year old British woman (not the one in the picture), Jo Margetson, has recently made a complaint to the police against a London Heathrow airport security guard who said he “loved those gigantic tits,” as she passed through the machine by mistake. This probably gives an indication of what is to come once airport [...]
Posts Tagged ‘privacy’
United Kingdom airport gets digital strip search scanner
October 31st, 2009
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As we all know the World is full of terrorists, child porn, kidnappers, drug dealers and people who don’t pay their taxes, Manchester airport Terminal 2, in the UK nonetheless, has found a new magic weapon to fight all the evildoers, the digital strip search, aka Rapiscan equipment, for your own security, before boarding on [...]
Video: No2ID, stop the UK database state now
February 19th, 2009
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After rejecting the plans five times, the House of Lords finally dropped its resistance to fingerprint and take mugshots of everyone on the island. Compulsory ID cards? Of course not! You will not be required to use an ID card unless you wish to work, use the banking or health system, travel or receive benefits. [...]
Researching people online, advanced internet search
December 3rd, 2008
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Most Joe Does end up leaving some kind of tracks on the internet, a few months ago I posted about TinEye, an internet searcher that allows you to upload an image and it will match it with websites that are using the graphic in one shape or another . I have now found a much [...]
Countermeasures against the UK Communications Data Bill
October 22nd, 2008
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In order to protect British citizens from crime the UK government has come up with an idea, a law called The Communications Data Bill. Every email within, or coming into or out of the UK will be time stamped and logged (email content not included, at this stage), and websites will be tracked so that [...]
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