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Earlier this year, I had some problems with a statement from the Open Solution Alliance's Anthony Gold. Here are my comments from the ti...

What a bunch of incompetent, arrogant fools : The Home Office has admitted that it has been trying to force ISPs to subscribe to the Interne...

Kudos to Kaspersky Labs and Sophos: they understand that once you compromise a computer's security, there *is* no security: The Home Of...

The latest Home Office poll on public attitudes to the planned National ID card indicates that support for the scheme has eroded slightly, w...

Since we now know this : Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has blamed a private contractor for losing the details of thousands of criminals, held ...

Oh, look , what a surprise: it's not just for anti-terrorism: Local councils, health authorities and hundreds of other public bodies are...

Although unintentional in this case, here's a good example of why we need open government: "Big Brother" plans to automatical...

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

The indispensable John Lettice (don't miss his repeated skewering of the UK's idiotic ID card plans) makes a nice connection betwe...