Surveillance Society – Beasley's Place

It caught my eye… 6–2023

December 6, 2023December 6, 2023 MikeLeave a comment

According to press reports, The Guardian, The FT, T his is Money; Thames Water could be about to run out of money!

I thought the whole idea of privatization was that it was going to be better for all!

Funny how things turn out.

The UK Department of Work & Pensions (DWP) confirms plans to check bank accounts to stop £1.3 billion in benefit fraud. In an update to legislation, the UK Government has giving itself the power to look into all UK citizens banks account that receive state benefits!

Big Brother on the march, again! Why not look at the UK.Gov?

A very written article about this very subject — How the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill is the government’s latest erosion of hard-won rights!

With Climate change high on the agenda at the moment and with COP28 taking place in Dubai, it is interesting to learn that Scientists in Scotland are using robotic subsea gliders to check ocean currents for signs of climate collapse.

They are monitoring the “conveyor belt” which carries warm and cool water between the Caribbean and the Arctic.

Let’s hope that they find out what’s happening soon.

Privacy, it is possible in today’s world?

January 28, 2020March 21, 2020 MikeLeave a comment

With recent news that Clearview AI is being used by a number of USA Law Enforcement Agencies, one wonders when UK Police Forces might start deploying similar capabilities, although The Met seems to be ahead in this area already.

It clearly seems that Clearview AI is causing a big stir, here are just a few of the stories that I have come across in the last few days.

It’s going to be a bumpy ride for this company as many people will not want to see their ordinary everyday images used as a background for police or other random checks.

Will the petition mean anything?

February 20, 2007 MikeLeave a comment

As the Downing Street E-Petitions ‘Anti-vehicle tracking and road pricing’ petition reaches the closing date, over 1.6 million people have signed it, I do wonder just how much notice the politicians will take of this ‘feedback’? If past examples are anything to go by, not very much.

I’m quite disappointed that so much of the traditional press have viewed this petition as just another example of British eccentricity. Combined with the ‘self-serving’ ambivalence that government ministers have towards the British public, I think there is no chance of stopping ‘monitored ‘road-pricing’, which for me will be yet another example of this governments inexplicable march toward total surveillance of the British public.