What Future?

Posted by del.icio.us bot at November 9th, 2008

• The dustbin Stasi: Half of councils use anti-terror laws to watch people putting rubbish out on the wrong day | Mail Online

  The Mail requested information from all of the 474 councils in England. Of the 151 which replied, some 77 - more than half - said they had used the legislation in the last three years for suspected 'domestic waste, littering or fly-tipping offences'.

  (tags: politics law surveillance privacy weird)

• Interpol proposes world face-recognition database • The Register

  The attraction of facial-recognition records, as opposed to conventional mugshots, is that automated searching is possible. A specially-equipped airport gate - or even, in some circumstances, a security camera - would be able to sound an alert every time a person on the Interpol watch list went past

  (tags: privacy security surveillance politics law police ai)