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Submission + - UK Government to bypass the Data Protection Act (facebook.com) 1

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rar42

on Monday March 02, 2009 @12:50PM

rar42 writes: "Clause 152 of the Coroners and Justice Bill — currently being debated by the UK Parliament — would allow any Minister by order to take any information gathered for one purpose from anywhere, and use it for any other purpose.

Personal information arbitrarily used without consent or even knowledge. The very reverse of 'Data Protection'.

An 'Information Sharing Order', as defined in Clause 152, would permit personal information to be trafficked and abused, not only all across government and the public sector — it would also reach into the private sector. And it would even allow transfer of information across international borders.

NO2ID has launched a Facebook group to challenge this threat to data protection."

Comment Complete uncertainty. (Score 1) 873

by rar42 on Saturday December 20, 2008 @07:15AM (#26182909) Attached to: The US economy is heading toward ...

World wide we have leaders and their pet economists planning solutions to problems they didn't expect. They can 't predict what will happen next week, let alone in a year. All we can say is that their is a slim chance they will do the right thing.

Submission + - Aldermaston and the Edge of Darkness (blogspot.com)

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rar42

on Saturday December 20, 2008 @07:05AM

rar42 writes: "Is the British government working to promote the planned release of the film of the Edge of Darkness? As discussed in the Cockspiracy blog, and more solidly reported on the BBC, "The move means Britain no longer has any stake in the production of its Trident nuclear warheads." Truth seems to be stranger than the fiction first shown in 1985."

Submission + - BBC iPlayer open for Linux (bbc.co.uk)

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rar42

on Thursday December 13, 2007 @01:50PM

rar42 writes: "Having burnt through hundreds of millions of pounds to develop an iPlayer application that allows Windows users to download programmes to their PCs with all the DRM fun, the BBC seems to have got the cross-platform flash streaming version up and running in a few weeks and without cries of agony from the production companies.

The BBC still needs to provide equality across platforms by allowing non-Windows users to download programmes to our computers. Apparently, to their credit, the BBC Trust have made no bones about this requirement.

So why not take a stroll over to the BBC Website , sit back and watch a BBC programme or two.

Much credit should go the The Open Source Consortium and The Open Rights Group for all their work on this."

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