Showing posts with label databases. Show all posts
Showing posts with label databases. Show all posts
24 July 2014

Companies Developing Crowd Analysis Programs To Detect 'Abnormalities' In Behavior And Match Faces Against Giant Databases

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One of the reasons that the total surveillance programs of the NSA and GCHQ are possible is that computers continue to become more power...
09 March 2013

Europe's 'Database Right' Could Throttle Open Data Moves There

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One of the more benighted moves by the European Union was the introduction of a special kind of copyright for databases in 1996: not for...
06 January 2013

Classic Function Creep As EU Police May Gain Access To Asylum Seekers Fingerprint Database

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As Techdirt readers well know, one of the problems with measures brought in for "exceptional situations" -- be it fighting terr...
02 May 2009

Swine Flu in the Nude

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This is what the virus really looks like: 1 atgaaggcaa tactagtagt tctgctatat acatttgcaa ccgcaaatgc agacacatta 61 tgtataggtt ...
25 February 2009

ID Card Database *Already* Breached

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That's almost before it's come into existence: The breaches of the Customer Information System (CIS), which is run by the Departmen...
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05 December 2008

Ingres Paints a Rosy Picture

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If you have a good memory, you might recall a 2003 research paper from Goldman Sachs called “Fear the Penguin”.... On Open Enterprise blog .
17 October 2008

Where China Leads...

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...can Jacqui be far behind? All visitors to internet cafés in Beijing will be required to have their photographs taken in a stringent new ...
04 July 2008

IDiotic or What?

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The chief executive of the Identity and Passport Service has said the ID cards database will not be completely secure. James Hall said on Th...
16 June 2008

To Open DB2, or Not To Open DB2: That is the Question

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Interesting : IBM is positive about the possibility of bringing out its DB2 database-management software under an open-source licence. While...
18 December 2007

Are Closed Source Databases Doomed?

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On Open Enterprise blog .
25 October 2007

"Open Source Does Not Mean Free": Huh?

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Here's an interesting little to do : Open Source does not mean Free: Why we are declaring a license for the community database ... Very ...
12 January 2007

Open-Mouthed...

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...I am, if this "sea-change" turns out to be true (a sceptic of the UK Government writes): The way the government makes its vast...
19 December 2006

ID'ing Reality

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The truth begins to sink in : The government has abandoned plans for a giant new computer system to run the national identity cards scheme. ...
27 September 2006

Open Access to the Origins of Language

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New Scientist reports : Linguists are calling for an online public database, similar to the human genome project, that would allow research...
17 August 2006

If Laws Were Secret

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This sounds like something straight out of Brazil . The UK Government is rolling out a database of UK laws, and it looks like the people w...
26 July 2006

Pervasive but not Persuasive

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Further proof, if any were needed, that open source business operates under different rules. Here's a letter from CEO of Pervasive, a ...
13 July 2006

A Study in Official Openness

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It is probably hard for those outside the UK to appreciate the extent of the secrecy that has pervaded public life here for centuries. The ...
06 May 2006

O Happy, Happy Digital Code

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My book Digital Code of Life was partly about the battle to keep genomic and other bioinformatics information open. So it's good to se...
27 March 2006

The Science of Open Source

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The OpenScience Project is interesting. As its About page explains: The OpenScience project is dedicated to writing and releasing free an...
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