At a meeting on identity cards at London’s Social Market Foundation, Meg Hillier, UK Identity Minster, announced plans to have the stored information for new biometric ID cards to be stored across ...
A group of privacy and security experts has charted the proliferation of U.K. government databases and concluded that some of them could be illegal. The Foundation for Information Policy Research ...
BIG BROTHER, UK EDITION. Four years ago, the United Kingdom’s Home Office (the department responsible for immigration, security, and law enforcement) proposed developing a national strategy concerning ...
Police could use live facial recognition across town centres, matching CCTV images to passport photos under new government ...
Policing minister Chris Philp has outlined his intention to give police forces access to the UK’s passport database, claiming it will enhance their facial-recognition capabilities to help catch ...
In 2012, a ruling by Britain’s High Court found that keeping the mugshots of innocent people in police databases was unlawful. But almost six years later, the country’s Home Office has defended the ...
Researchers who examined blood test records in a survey of over 3.6 million patient records held by UK GP surgeries have found thousands of cases of probable undiagnosed diabetes. This could help ...
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