surveillance – The BillBlog

Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between June 25th and June 28th:

Bad science: Suicides, Aids, and a masts campaigner | Comment is free | The Guardian – Surely there's a link to wifi too… 🙂
ICO slaps TfL over Oyster data hoard | The Register – So if you want to get your child's discount you have to hand over their identity details to TfL so they can track them – must not stand.
Heavyweight physics prof weighs into climate/energy scrap [printer-friendly] | The Register – Interesting (and long) consideration of David MacKay's work in progress
Charter delays NebuAd rollout after outcry – Over here the relevant authorities don't seem to care what Phorm gets up to, while NebuAd, a comparable system in the US, gets scrutinised by Congress…

[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website]

Members of the British Parliament have been shocked to discover that one of their number was bugged by the secret service, violating the forty-year old ‘Wilson doctrine’ that offers MPs immunity from the sort of snooping they are happy to allow on the rest of us.

Two conversations between Tooting MP Sadiq Khan and Babar Ahmad were apparently recorded in the prison where Mr Ahmad is being held on remand while awaiting deportation to the United States on charges relating to his support for terrorism.

The real problem for MPs, of course, is not that they will be specifically targetted for surveillance but that they will inevitably be caught up in operations against other people.

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Who is Listening?