Monday November 27, 2006
The Guardian - Present curbs are too light, Met chief to tell Goldsmith
- Rights groups say officers would be 'censors in chief' Police are to demand new powers to arrest protesters for causing offence through the words they chant and the slogans on their placards and even headbands. The country's biggest force, the Metropolitan police, is to lobby the attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, because officers believe that large sections of the population have become increasingly politicised, and there is a growing sense that the current restrictions on demonstrations are too light. Trouble at recent protests involving Islamic extremists has galvanised the Met's assistant commissioner, Tarique Ghaffur, into planning a crackdown. His proposals are due to be sent to Lord Goldsmith, who is reviewing how effective the current laws are in tackling extremists. Comment: Did you the hear the one about how a phony threat from "Islamic extremists" was used to usher in an overt police state in the UK and the US?
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UK Indepdendent
26 November 2006 Relatives of suspects in criminal investigations are to face having DNA tests and their confidential medical records released to the authorities if they refuse to co-operate with the police.
Internal government guidelines on the use of the DNA database seen by The Independent on Sunday instruct the police to ask for medical files belonging to the relatives of criminals so their blood and tissue samples can be tested for DNA. |
Yorkshire Post
27/11/2006 Former Home Secretary David Blunkett last night spoke out against reported plans to eavesdrop on the public using microphones alongside CCTV cameras.
The Sunday Times said police and councils were considering monitoring conversations in the street, looking at devices currently used in the Netherlands. Mr Blunkett, MP for Sheffield Brightside, said that the idea was "smacked of the "surveillance state". "As you walk down the street you expect to be able to have a private conversation," he said. Comment: Now that Blunkett has been kicked out of Blair's cabinet, he appears to have developed a conscience, or is he just trying to salvage something from his ignoble political career? Blunkett is the man who urged Blair to bomb the offices of Al-Jazeerah because it was "spreading propaganda" (pot-kettle-black) and who also suggested that unruly prisoners in British jails should be "machine-gunned". What a nice chap.
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The Inquirer
November 26, 2006 No PIN, no signing, no touch required
Details were announced of the initial London roll out of a new wave of contactless debit cards, credit cards and pre-pay cards for payments under £10. An extension to the existing Chip and PIN EMV network, Maestro / MasterCard's PayPass and Visa's contactless system will allow users to pay for small goods such as rail tickets, newspapers and beers by waving their card in front of an RFID sensor on a point of sale or vending machine. |
BBC News
28/11/2006 Traces of polonium-210 radiation have been found at two more central London addresses, police probing ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko's death say.
One address, in Down Street, reportedly houses the offices of his friend, exiled billionaire Boris Berezovsky. The other location, in Grosvenor Street, is the headquarters of security and risk management company Erinys. |
By John Oates
Published Wednesday 29th November 2006 14:52 GMT The Register An advert showing a close-up picture of Tony Blair with a barcode on his top lip was not offensive, the Advertising Standards Authority has ruled.
The advert appeared in The Guardian newspaper with the strapline: "ID cards have worked well in Europe before." Eight people complained that they thought the barcode made Blair resemble Hitler. The poster is available here. |
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