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Facebook - take care to check your Privacy Settings

Facebook has changed the way its privacy settings operate, asking users to change their settings even if they had already been set. Users logging on this week are presented with a new screen that they must engage with before going on to use the site. It asks users to update their privacy preferences in the light of the site's "new, simplified...

11 December 2009 /security /regulation Whatever...

Keith Appleyard

National Border Targeting Centre - staff training delays

The opening of the operations centre at the heart of a new £1.2bn computer system - planned to monitor every person who enters or leaves the UK - has been delayed by staff training. The National Border Targeting Centre (NBTC), the Manchester-based clearing house for the e-Borders program, was scheduled to open this month, but to allow for staff

10 December 2009 /security /regulation Whatever...

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DNA evidence will still harm your employment prospects

Back in August I wrote about DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=3190 County Durham police last week put the final nail in the coffin of the Home Office mantra "nothing to hide, nothing to fear", with a clear announcement that DNA and fingerprinting could harm an individual’s career prospects...

10 December 2009 /security /regulation Whatever...

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Retain the Cheques for Small Business and Small People

I see both sides of this coin at the Children's Charity (Playgroup) I run. Only yesterday I received 3 Invoices, none of which contained any Bank details, so I was obliged to pay by Cheque. I’m just finishing off a Cheque Book I started in September 2006. I even have some Suppliers whose latest Invoices show no Bank details, yet earlier Invoices di...

25 November 2009 /payments Whatever...

Keith Appleyard

DEFRA Single Payment Scheme shows poor value for money

The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) Rural Payments Agency’s Single Payment Scheme uses a £350 million IT system to pay farmers the right amount in EU subsidies. But the National Audit Office said in a recent report that the agency’s systems are "very expensive", "cumbersome", "difficult to change t...

10 November 2009 /payments /regulation Whatever...

Keith Appleyard

Ministry of Justice employees overpaid by 1.5m pounds

Freedom of Information Act requests revealed more than 1,000 staff at the department were overpaid a total of £1,522,995 over the last three years – but more than half that total will never be paid back. In one case, a civil servant nearly doubled their salary. The unnamed official was handed an extra £18,500, on top of annual earnings of £22,000. ...

25 September 2009 /security /regulation Whatever...

Keith Appleyard

DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated

Over the past twenty years, DNA analysis has revolutionised forensic science, and has become a dominant tool in law enforcement. DNA evidence is key to the conviction or exoneration of suspects of various types of crime, from theft to rape and murder. However, the disturbing possibility that DNA evidence can be faked has been overlooked. Scientist...

19 August 2009 /security /regulation Whatever...

Keith Appleyard

118 800 mobile phone directory may stay offline permanently

I wrote back on 10th June https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=2942 and 13th July about the new UK Mobile Phone Directory https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=3057 Good news for Privacy advocates is that following a wave of negative publicity, after initially saying the service was operating within the rules, the Offic...

28 July 2009 /security /regulation Whatever...

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118 800 mobile number directory crashes

I wrote back on 10th June about How to Opt out of the new UK Mobile Phone Directory https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=2942 The controversial service has been overwhelmed by users rushing to go ex-directory The site, which launched last month, now displays a holding page http://www.118800.co.uk/service_suspended.html which reads: &...

13 July 2009 /security /regulation Whatever...

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How to Opt Out of the new UK Mobile Phone Directory

Are you aware of the new controversial 118800 mobile phone directory which launches next week? Do you want to learn how to opt out of it? Start up firm Connectivity (www.118800.co.uk) has bought lists of 16 million phone numbers – around 40 per cent of those in regular use in the UK – and addresses, which are typically used in the premium rate in

10 June 2009 /security Whatever...

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