http://www.svz.de/newsmv/MVPolitik/12.07.05/1900960/1900960.html


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Verschärfte Sicherheitsmaßnahmen: Genetischer Fingerabdruck soll per Gesetz ermittelt und gespeichert werden (11.07.05)

Am 30. Juni wurde im Bundestag das Gesetz zur Neuregelung der DNA-Analyse in Strafverfahren verabschiedet. Wie Monika Feuerlein, Redakteurin beim Gen-ethischen Informationsdienst, feststellt, werden die bisher gültigen rechtlichen Grenzen des genetischen Fingerabdrucks mit dem neuen Gesetz "sehr stark ausgeweitet". Dies gilt, so Feuerlein, insbesondere für die erweiterten Möglichkeiten einer Speicherung von DNA-Profilen. Bundesjustizministerin Brigitte Zypries will künftig auch die Daten von Wiederholungstätern, "die mit vielen kleineren Taten anfangen" gespeichert wissen. Monika Feuerlein dazu: "Es bleibt zu hoffen, dass die Verfassungsrichter rechtzeitig die Bremse ziehen".

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=11387

Größerer Schutz durch biometrische Ausweise, Überwachungskameras, Sensoren zur Sprengstofferkennung, Gen-Datei oder Speicherung der Verbindungsdaten?

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/20/20490/1.html

Emails und Handy-Anrufe sollen nach dem Willen des britischen Innenministers europaweit mindestens 5 Jahre lang gespeichert werden.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/20/20486/1.html

07/03/05

Hundreds of thousands of people are set to defy the government by refusing to carry ID cards, despite the risk of imprisonment. Campaigners say that a network of anti-ID card groups, ranging from hackers to anarchists, plans a series of assaults in the coming months to try to block the scheme. A £1 million fund is being raised to help pay legal fees if, as expected, prosecutions are brought once the cards become compulsory, probably in 2010. 'We have to show these [people] that we did not vote for them and that we will bring them down. This is the poll tax all over again. I am prepared to do time for this,' runs one entry on the No2ID campaign website. Another says: 'I'm not an anarchist, but we're getting to the stage now where I think peaceful protest isn't going to work.' The Home Office estimates that around 17 per cent of adults -- up to four million people -- oppose the cards. A recent ICM poll, commissioned by No2ID, found that 43 per cent believe they are a 'bad' or 'very bad' idea...

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,1520163,00.html

from Guardian [UK]


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

No longer lost in the crowd: Prospects of continuous geosurveillance by mobile phones.

http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/martin/aag_geosurveillance.pdf
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The author, Martin Dodge works as a researcher in the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) and lecturer in the Department of Geography, University College London.


Informant: Carole Smith

Tony Blair faced a dual assault on the Government's proposals for ID cards yesterday, with leading academics and the official information watchdog condemning plans for a national identity database covering every individual in Britain. A 300-page report by staff at the London School of Economics made fundamental criticisms of the justification, technology and scope of the ID cards scheme. The report warned that it could pose a 'far greater risk to the safety and security of UK citizens' than any of the problems it is intended to address. In a second blow to the Government's proposals, Richard Thomas, the information commissioner, also strongly attacked plans for a national identity register as 'unwarranted and intrusive.' He said ID cards could be used to track people's lives and help create a 'surveillance society...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=650197

from Independent [UK]


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

06/26/05

Tony Blair is facing increased opposition to ID cards amid fears that they will be used to target ethnic minorities. The Muslim Council of Britain will issue a statement expressing concern about the legislation today while the Commission for Racial Equality warned that the scheme could have an 'adverse impact on different racial groups.' Ministers are already bracing themselves for a battle over ID cards in the Commons tomorrow, when MPs will have their first opportunity to vote on the proposals since the election...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=650052

from Independent [UK]



Ministers reject ID card claims

06/26/05

Senior ministers refused to compromise yesterday in the face of a ferocious onslaught from MPs, trade unions and civil liberty groups seeking to overwhelm tomorrow's Commons second reading of the ID cards bill. As critics stepped up the pressure on the system they have sought to paint as a 'plastic poll tax,' the scheme's achilles heel was increasingly being seen as the cost -- between £15bn and £18bn, according to some independent analysts. The home secretary, Charles Clarke, intervened to counter claims about the misuses to which the ID card data could be put. Ministers dismissed as 'complete and utter nonsense' one report that personal details about 44 million adults could be bought by firms for £750 a head."

http://tinyurl.com/8fkqf

from Guardian [UK]


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp