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As the mobile phone moves closer to the center of daily life in many parts of the world, combining phone, computer, camera, diary, music pl...

Part of the problem with extending the DNA database is that doing so increases the likelihood of this happening: After a seven-day trial, J...

There's no doubt that the area outside computing where the ideas underlying open source are being applied most rapidly and most successf...

There is a nauseating piece of troll-bait in the Guardian today. It's called "My DNA dilemma", and in it Alan Johnson attemp...

This is staggering: Detections using the national DNA database have fallen over the past two years despite the number of profiles increasin...

This is something I've been saying (without proof, admittedly) for a while: the UK's insane DNA database is doomed not because it d...

Yesterday, I wrote about how the UK ID database has been breached even before it formally exists; now here's another tale that shows w...

Oh, look, what a surprise: the UK government's plans implement a European human rights ruling that the "blanket" retention of ...

One of the many disgraceful aspects about the disgraceful ID card programme is the reluctance of the UK government to make key documents ava...

This stuff is getting, er, interesting : There are already whispers circulating that “amended” copies of the BNP member list are doing the r...

Well, well, well : The number of crimes solved thanks to the DNA database is actually falling despite the ever-growing number of people it c...

More sanity from the House of Lords: The government has been defeated in the House of Lords over the issue of keeping peoples' DNA and ...

I've been against DNA databases for years, but I've always felt that the generic arguments I've been using were a little pallid,...

How Orwellian is this: UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has defended the apparatus of the UK's emerging surveillance society as the means...

Pretty much a marriage made in heaven: Open source software should be more widely available in order to help reduce the 'digital divide...

I first came across proposals for the the UK Biobank when I was writing Digital Code of Life in 2004. It's an exciting idea : UK Biob...

A group of eminent lawyers and scientists is calling for anyone not convicted of a crime to have their details wiped from the DNA database. ...

I wrote recently about Microsoft's amazing Photosynth demo, which shows pictures of Notre-Dame taken from Flickr stitched together auto...

Talking of DNA databases : Civil liberties groups are warning that the details of every Briton could soon be on the national DNA database, r...

Good to see some others concerned by the imminent arrival of personal genomics : In addition, many scientists fear cheap genome sequencing c...