Rule one: Do not act incautiously when confronting little bald wrinkly smiling men.
Posted in big brother on Jun 5th, 2008
A recent study, reported by the BBC, details how mobile phone records have been used to track 100,000 mobile phone users movements over 6 months.
One conclusion of the study was:
…patterns of people’s movements, over short and long distances, were very similar: people tend to return to the same few places over and over again.
Are you […]
Posted in activism, big brother, interwebs on May 8th, 2008
Having a quick squizz at the news over lunch, I found some stories that tickled me enough to motivate me to write. Today we have stories about how TV adverts are only accidentally loud, green issues to support intensive farming and logo recognition to catch criminal hoodies by their designer tracksuits.
The BBC Magazine story, titled […]
Posted in big brother on Feb 28th, 2008
Since beginning my new job and discovering I didn’t have admin rights to my own machine, I feel like I have been trying to outstare the sun as I have battled for various pieces of software to be installed.
Company I.T. policy prevents the installation of, well, anything and this is enforced at a local and […]
Posted in big brother on Feb 4th, 2008
Another leap forward for surveillance society as the number plate recognition scanners record all vehicles in an out of London, for the sake of our health you understand. How could you refuse?
BBC news
But Transport for London, which is implementing the zone, says it will improve quality of life for people with asthma, cardio-vascular disease and […]