Dubai has become a popular lockdown holiday destination for the social media elite with influencers and reality stars jetting off to the city for winter sun. Celebrities who travelled to Dubai include Love Island star Jess Gale (left) and Geordie Shore's Chloe Ferry (right) … [Read more...] about Caribbean nations frantically struggle to increase testing as US and UK demand returning holidaymakers present negative result
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Campaigners call for Six Nations rugby venues to pay casual workers the ‘real’ Living Wage
“Due to the sporadic nature of the Principality Stadium events calendar – we host between five and seven Welsh rugby internationals a season and all other major events ... are put on by third party event owners at their discretion – we do employ some contracted workers at, infrequent, peak times. … [Read more...] about Campaigners call for Six Nations rugby venues to pay casual workers the ‘real’ Living Wage
Home Office accidentally DELETES 150,000 fingerprint, DNA and arrest records from national police database during weekly data purge – throwing UK visa system into chaos
Other major data losses suffered by the Government include the data discs of 25million individuals and 7.25million families claiming child benefit, including their name, address, date of birth and, in some cases, bank details, in 2007. … [Read more...] about Home Office accidentally DELETES 150,000 fingerprint, DNA and arrest records from national police database during weekly data purge – throwing UK visa system into chaos
Spies may not like the Anderson plan – but their world needs a revolution
Now that terrorists have been told about the value of bulk data, it is possible that they will begin communicating in other ways. But the examples Anderson has published give very little detail about how bulk data can be analysed. We know, for example, that it was used in one case to track down terrorists who used “unique and distinctive communications methods … by querying bulk data for these distinctive patterns”. So effective was the process that one group was arrested “en route to conducting a murderous attack”. But that’s about as much as we are told about the agencies’ capabilities. … [Read more...] about Spies may not like the Anderson plan – but their world needs a revolution
UK intelligence agencies should keep mass surveillance powers, report says
Jo Glanville, director of English PEN, welcomed the report. “While we would have liked to see the recommendations go even further in relation to GCHQ’s bulk collection of data, we welcome the recommendations for judicial authorisation and the call for a rigorous assessment before any further powers are given to the intelligence services in a revived snooper’s charter.” … [Read more...] about UK intelligence agencies should keep mass surveillance powers, report says