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Freedom not Fear Prague: Do It Yourself Carnival burst in the city center
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 11 October 2008 Prague hosted the DIY Carnival which marched through the city centre in the name of the worldwide initiative “Freedom not Fear”. Starting with a concert of several music groups on the river island Stvanice, more than 1000 people wearing masks outnumbered crowds of […]
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The European Commission continues to pressure for early fingerprinting
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In spite of the recommendation of the European Data Protection Supervisor, Peter Hustinx, that the minimum age for fingerprinting should be 14, a spokesperson from the European Commission (EC) expressed on 2 April 2008 the EC intention to push for fingerprinting children starting at the age of […]
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Information Commissioner warns against fingerprinting at new UK terminal
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Mr. Richard Thomas, UK Information Commissioner warned Heathrow airport operator BAA that the plans to fingerprint all passengers at the new Terminal 5 may breach the UK Data Protection Act. The 5.5 billion euro worth Terminal 5 was opened by the Queen on 16 March and is […]
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UK beat police will have access to national mugshot database
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 18 March 2008, Peter Neyroud, the chief executive of the UK National Police Improvement Agency (NPIA), told the Commons Home Affairs Committee, during the final evidence session of a year-long inquiry on the surveillance society, that the police was developing a national database of mugshots to […]
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Wales said no to ID cards
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Welsh Assembly Government proposal for a “smart card” to be used to access public services in Wales was considered by civil liberties groups as a way of introducing identity cards “through the back door” and was rejected by the Liberal Democrats supported by the Labour Party members […]
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PI: Leading surveillance societies in the EU and the World 2007
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) UK-based human rights group Privacy International (PI) published at the end of last year the 2007 ranking assessment of the state of privacy in 47 countries, including all European Union member states. The raking is based on the Privacy & Human Rights reports produced since 1997 by […]
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Civil liberties threatened by the new centralized EU fingerprint database
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A proposal for the creation of a centralized database of fingerprints from all 27 EU countries was included in a new European Commission document that sets out the goals for 2008. The fingerprints database is to be operational by the end of 2008 and it will include […]
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French High Court cancels the creation of illegal migrants database
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In a decision published on 13 March, the Conseil d’État, the French highest administrative court, cancelled the ministerial order (“Arrêté”) by which the Interior Ministry created the ELOI file, a database aimed at facilitating the expulsion of illegal migrants. On 2 October 2006, four French NGOs filed […]
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UK Home Office plans to fingerprint children starting 11
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) “Restricted” documents circulated among officials in the UK Identity and Passport have shown Home Office plans to fingerprint children aged 11 years and over, beginning with 2010, as part of the programme for the introduction of new biometric passports and ID cards. The fingerprints are to be […]
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Serbia rejects biometric ID cards
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A grass-roots campaign in Serbia successfully pressed the Serbian government to back off on a plan to make biometric data compulsory in the country’s new ID cards. The decision followed a pitched battle prior to the 21 January 2007 election as opponents criticized the accompanying plan for […]
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Changes in the UK ID card scheme
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The initial plan of the UK Government regarding the national ID scheme was meant to use photographs, fingerprints and iris scans in a National Identity Register. The Home Office’s Strategic Action Plan for the National Identity Scheme considers now that the iris scans is just an option […]
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UK biometric passports project set back by simple cloning possibilities
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) UK Government faces now a big problem related to the introduction of the new biometric passports as recently it has been proven these passports can be easily and very cheaply copied by means of a microchip reader that can be legally bought on the Internet. As a […]
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