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As I mentioned back in October, the Joint Parliamentary Committee that has been considering the Draft Communications Data Bill, aka Sno...

...and it's £2.2 trillion : The gap between what the Government expects to spend and what it actually brings in has risen five-fold, fro...

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...

This is significant : Senior cabinet ministers are privately discussing a plan to scrap the Government's £5bn identity cards programme a...

A recurrent theme in these posts – and throughout Computerworld UK – has been the rise of vast, unnecessary and ultimately doomed databases ...

William Heath on the Experian scandal: Experian has a “Mosaic” view of the world which involves grabbing as much data as possible and then ...

The Convention on Modern Liberty was launched last night. I may be foolishly optimistic, but I do feel that this is our best hope of stopp...

This is just a jokette , right? The private sector will be asked to manage and run a communications database that will keep track of everyon...

Our dear Home Secretary decides to ignore what we proles think again: His warning follows an admission yesterday by Jacqui Smith that the t...

There is a common misconception in Labour's love of super-duper databases: that more data is better. In fact, as any fule kno, what you...

This is where the madness of authoritarianism leads: Everyone who buys a mobile telephone will be forced to register their identity on a na...

Jerry Fishenden is not somebody you'd expect me to see eye-to-eye with much: Jerry Fishenden is Microsoft UK's lead technology advi...