A stub with a story
An article in today's Guardian recounts how reams of private information about one person who discarded their boarding card stub in a bin on the Heathrow Express was easily uncovered (admittedly by an expert, but apparently without any difficulty).
It exposes the ability of companies and governments to claim that they need to collect more private data about us in the name of security, and the disregard they can show for how easily that information can be accessed by criminals.
This all bodes even less well for the UK government's invasive and bumbling ID card plans...
Image by Alex Koulintchenko via stock.xchng.
It exposes the ability of companies and governments to claim that they need to collect more private data about us in the name of security, and the disregard they can show for how easily that information can be accessed by criminals.
This all bodes even less well for the UK government's invasive and bumbling ID card plans...
Image by Alex Koulintchenko via stock.xchng.
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Court annuls EU-US data sharing agreement
30.05.2006 by Teresa Küchler for EUObserver (Brussels)
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