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There are now over 10,000 Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras covering the UK road network. These are capable of recording, recognising and tracking your car by its numberplate. The data from the cameras is collated and stored at a national centre run on behalf of the private, profit-making company ACPO, where it is held [...]

This post is actually an embedded Google Wave. It will look pretty odd unless you’re signed into Wave. Please leave me a comment if you know how to export a Wave in a way that allows it to be read by people who don’t have an account!

The Daily Mail has once again disgraced itself by promoting the scientifically discredited view that wifi networks are harmful to health. On November 19 it published an article by Alasdair Philips that said some remarkable things about electromagnetic radiation.
Under the headline “Is electro smog causing your headache?” Philips claims that plans to wifi-enable towns such [...]

Last year I wrote about the ineffectiveness of mass CCTV surveillance and suggested that we should fix the broken way in which CCTV is used in the UK. Now a report funded by the Home Office has reached the same conclusion. It turns out that CCTV has almost no impact on crime. Except in car [...]

Could UK.gov be starting to turn the corner on engaging the public through technology? There’s been a rash of good e-Government news this week surrounding access to public data and consultations (as well as the odd bad idea – well, can’t win ‘em all I suppose).
First up: The Office of Public Sector Information has launched [...]