Posts Tagged ‘surveillance’
‘Shadow Government’ DVD trailers
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
UK government’s £400 million plan to put 24-hour CCTV supervision in homes
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009Thousands of the worst families in England are to be put in “sin bins” in a bid to change their bad behaviour, Ed Balls announced yesterday. The Children’s Secretary set out £400million plans to put 20,000 problem families under 24-hour CCTV super-vision in their own homes. They will be monitored to ensure that children attend school, go to bed on time and eat proper meals. Private security guards will also be sent round to carry out home checks, while parents will be given help to combat drug and alcohol addiction. Around 2,000 families have gone through these Family Intervention Projects so far. But ministers want to target 20,000 more in the next two years, with each costing between £5,000 and £20,000 – a potential total bill of £400million.
Ministers hope the move will reduce the number of youngsters who get drawn into crime because of their chaotic family lives, as portrayed in Channel 4 comedy drama Shameless. Sin bin projects operate in half of council areas already but Mr Balls wants every local authority to fund them. He said: “This is pretty tough and non-negotiable support for families to get to the root of the problem. There should be Family Intervention Projects in every local authority area because every area has families that need support.”
Read article: http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/115736
So what we do when ID Cards 1.0 finally dies?
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009UK Identity Card 1.0 is in deep trouble. It’s running late, and if the Conservative Party wins next year’s election it’ll be scrapped. Its original architect has changed his mind, and even some Cabinet members are starting to see it as a needless expense. But if we pull the plug, what then?
The cards may go away, but the issue won’t. Problems associated with identity, privacy and security will remain burning issues facing both the technology industry and wider society. But the irony is that the UK is well placed to develop a model identity framework for the 21st Century. Unlike many other countries, we don’t have the problems of any existing, legacy national identity scheme to encumber us. We have a clean slate. We could have got this right and shown the art of the possible.
All the more reason to be dispirited then with the current identity plan, which seems to be rooted in a 1960s view of computing, with everyone’s personal information stored in some monolithic central system and proposed identity cards that seem to be little more than plastic copies of the cardboard identity documents the UK population was forced to use during the second world war.
It is as if someone has dusted off a document for a state-centric identity scheme from another era, one before the digital, Internet, consumer-driven age. But I won’t dwell on this as the failings of the current scheme have been the topic of endless well-informed analysis and comment already.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/19/identity_two_dot_oh/
The Big Question: Is the writing on the wall for the Government’s ID card scheme?
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009Why are we asking this now?
The Government had been due to award a key contract as part of its grand biometric ID card scheme this autumn. Three companies – Thales, Fujitsu and IBM – were bidding for the right to develop the cards’ design and handle their production. But this week the Home Office admitted a decision might not be made until the second half of 2010. This is the second delay to have hit the Government’s ID card scheme. Under the original plans, the widespread roll-out of the cards would have taken place next year. Now it is not due until 2012.
Why the latest delay?
The Home Office argues that commercial and technical considerations are responsible. But it has been noted that the decision comes at a time when the future of the scheme has never looked more precarious. This week the shadow Home Secretary, Chris Grayling wrote to companies who might be involved in producing the cards to warn them that the scheme would be cancelled if the Conservatives win power at the next election; something the opinion polls suggest is increasingly likely.
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Father bans school from fingerprinting daughter
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009A father has refused permission for his daughter’s Oxford school to take her fingerprints – fearing it is step towards a ‘Big Brother’ state.
Ben Emlyn-Jones’s daughter Louisa, 12, attends St Gregory the Great School in Cowley – which is planning to use fingerprint recognition software in its library.
On Tuesday, it was revealed that Windale Primary School, Glory Farm Primary School, Matthew Arnold Secondary School and The Cherwell School currently use fingerprint systems in libraries and Cheney School uses the technology to register pupils.
Mr Emlyn-Jones said: “I am really quite disturbed about it, it reminds me of a Big Brother state.
“There may be advantages in having a fingerprint database, but the price you pay is too high.”
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http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/1452746.father_bans_school_from_fingerprinting_daughter/
EU security proposals are ‘dangerously authoritarian’
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009The European Union is stepping up efforts to build an enhanced pan-European system of security and surveillance which critics have described as “dangerously authoritarian”.
Civil liberties groups say the proposals would create an EU ID card register, internet surveillance systems, satellite surveillance, automated exit-entry border systems operated by machines reading biometrics and risk profiling systems.
Europe’s justice ministers will hold talks on the “domestic security policy” and surveillance network proposals, known in Brussels circles as the “Stockholm programme”, on July 15 with the aim of finishing work on the EU’s first ever internal security policy by the end of 2009.
Jacques Barrot, the European justice and security commissioner, yesterday publicly declared that the aim was to “develop a domestic security strategy for the EU”, once regarded as a strictly national “home affairs” area of policy.
“National frontiers should no longer restrict our activities,” he said.
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Crazed MI5 and MI6 wreak havoc for the Illuminati
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009Blogs by people claiming to be former MI-5 and MI-6 agents paint a sordid picture of state terrorism, rape, torture, mind control, murder and pedophilia in the service of the Illuminati.
The main blog is called “Richard Tomlinson and the Russians” but there are a dozen more listed. Taken together with Comments by insiders, they tell a hair-raising tale of mayhem perpetrated by these deranged Illuminati agencies. Most people will not believe it. It has taken me nearly a year to process it.
Here are some highlights:
+The world’s Intelligence agencies are infiltrated and controlled by “Royal Arch” Freemasons who owe their loyalty not to the State but to Illuminati (Masonic) bankers, posing as the “Crown” or “Monarchy.” Most agents are tortured, i.e. trauma brainwashed and mind controlled using trigger words from texts like “Alice in Wonderland.”
MI-5 Chief Manningham-Buller told recruits they serve “the ‘real’ communism, …the ‘Guardianship’ by those who were ‘born to rule’. They were the self-elected custodians of British society who could decide what was in their people’s best interests.”
“This tarantula-like Masonic organization …has been strangling the world since the last days of the British Empire. Those within British Intelligence who were not Royal Arch Freemasons, had no real idea of what was going on at all. If they did manage to catch a ‘Russian spy’ within their midst, it was because the Royal Arch Freemasons had deemed this person expendable and had then fed him or her to the fishes. Think Burgess, Maclean etc and you will get the picture. [Anthony] Blunt escaped such censorship and hounding. He was a ‘master’ of Royal Arch Freemasonry.”
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http://www.henrymakow.com/mi-5_and_mi-6_wreak_havoc_for.html
