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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 BY ruthkennedy AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, What do we want?
Paul Clarke writes thoughtfully here about the confusion/agitation/frustration surrounding arrest of an architectural photographer for taking pictures of Merrill Lynch building in London this morning (in the light of recent clarification by ACPO that anti terror laws should not be used to stop photographers in public places). Comments refer to the fuzziness between private security firms […]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Bad stuff, Design: Co-creation, Design: user-oriented, Foundation of Trust, Political engagement
Murdoch’s tabloid columnist David Aaranovitch has stepped up as first cheerleader in Michael Wills’ long-promised riposte to our highly successful and influential Database State report earlier this year for JRRT. He’s no doubt well paid to use forceful language, and strike provocative poses. But he doesn’t get it. What the hell has Facebook, the greatest […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, November 27th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Across the Board, Design: user-oriented, Foundation of Trust, Political engagement, Save Time and Money, Transformational Government, What do we want?
@NTOUK and @williamheath are heartily fed up with half-baked government IT strategies. Having to read the current proposal is the last straw. Modernising Govt promised the same in 1999. The 2009 draft Government ICT Strategy – New world, new challenges, new opportunities seems oddly detached from the pressing discussions under way about public services renewal. […]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Government Procurement, Political engagement, Power of Information
Interesting post on transparency in government by Liam Maxwell on the Conservative local government blog: …Once you have gone through the obvious and straightforward, many of the sustainable cost savings we need to generate come through changing peoples’ behaviour: to become more cost effective, to continually recognise and eliminate even small amounts of waste. That […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, September 25th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, We told you so..., What do we want?
This powerful No2ID ad – much more striking, foreful and truthful than the stupid Home Office smiley-fingerprints ads launched today – was the subject, it seems, of complaint to the Advertising Standards Association by one single reader of the New Statesman. pdf here The complaints were: that the ad: 1. misleadingly exaggerated the information that […]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, September 24th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, We told you so..., What do we want?
Wired has a nice graphic for the FBI’s God-quest. It shows several of the businesses which handed over customer records to the state:
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, Identity, Transformational Government, What do we want?
My letter to ONS I’ve been asked (by pacifists and others concerned that the 2011 census is managed by a US defence contractor) what are the legal options for non-participation. I know it’s not a question you’ll welcome, [however] I believe I fully understand the arguments about why it’s safe and a good thing to […]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, September 13th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Political engagement, What do we want?
The German-based anti-data retention campaign had 20,000 people marching in Potsdamer Platz in Berlin yesterday. Nice to see last year’s Open Rights Group Freedom not Fear image on their very organised web site. Stoppt den Überwachungswahn! as they put it with such precision.
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, September 12th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, What do we want?
It has been a leitmotiv through years of Government-Idealism that the UK National Identity Scheme offers no perceptible benefit to the ordinary citizen or taxpayer. Ministers have once or twice protested they’re about to tell us what the benefits are (while conceding it will offer no online functionality “in the present phase” ie until 2020 […]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, We told you so..., What do we want?
Pleased to be able to report the dogs b*llocks of ID announcements: Washington, D.C. – September 9, 2009 – Ten industry leaders – Yahoo!, PayPal, Google, Equifax, AOL, VeriSign, Acxiom, Citi, Privo and Wave Systems – announced today they will support the first pilot programs designed for the American public to engage in open government […]
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