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[privacy] The Brits do it again
From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:49:03 -0400
UK's MI5 Wants <http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/03/16/1612203.shtml> Oyster Card Travel Data Posted by Soulskill on Sunday March 16, @01:15PM from the you-can-trust-us dept. <http://slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=158> Privacy Boiled Frog from a Nation of Suspects writes "The Oyster card, an RFID single-swipe card (which was recently <http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/london_tube_sma.html> cracked), was introduced to London's public transport users purportedly to make their lives easier. Now, British Intelligence services want some of the benefits by trawling through the travel data amassed by the card to spy on the <http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/mar/16/uksecurity.terrorism> 17 million Britons who use it. The article notes, "Currently the security services can demand the Oyster records of specific individuals under investigation to establish where they have been, but cannot trawl the whole database. But supporters of calls for more sharing of data argue that apparently trivial snippets - like the journeys an individual makes around the capital - could become important pieces of the jigsaw when fitted into a pattern of other publicly held information on an individual's movements, habits, education and other personal details. That could lead, they argue, to the unmasking of otherwise undetected suspects." <http://slashdot.org/login.pl> [+] privacy <http://slashdot.org/tags/privacy> , bigbrother <http://slashdot.org/tags/bigbrother> (tagging beta <http://slashdot.org/faq/tags.shtml> ) * <http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/03/16/1612203.shtml> Read More...
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