[privacy] The Brits do it again

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

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...

_______________________________________________
privacy mailing list
privacy () whitestar linuxbox org
http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy