Tag Archives: state surveillance

No to the database state

server-farm

Information collection and barriers to the free movement of people are far from legitimate, writes Ted North Over recent weeks many woolly-eyed liberal types seem to have discovered that her majesty's police force is not the shining beacon of civilisation they had long taken it for. The quasi-mythical 'bobby on the beat' has developed a ...

Rolling out the database state

Gordon is watching

This month has seen the implementation of Home Office plans to make foreign students carry biometric ID cards and force lecturers to keep registers of their attendance. This has been framed as a response to the scandal over the 'bogus colleges', almost 300 of which were uncovered last year, through which applicants could obtain a ...