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The Orwell Awards - Data Collection & Mining Archives
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New British ID cards cloned in 12 minutes, and programmed with false data.
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A call to scrap 'illegal' British databases.
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The British database where details of all your journeys are secretly logged and kept for a decade.
4
Right to privacy broken by 11 of the 46 biggest British public databases, says report.
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Every call made, email sent and website visited in Britain is now being logged under new regulations.
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The FBI's Counterterrorism Database
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Report on the FBI's Investigative Data Warehouse
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Bozeman City, Montana requires job applicants to hand over all social network logins and passwords for background checks.
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A United Nations agency is quietly drafting technical standards, proposed by the Chinese government, to define methods of tracing the original source of Internet communications and potentially curbing the ability of users to remain anonymous.
10
The NSA’s new data-mining facility.
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India plans ID cards for its 1.1 billion citizens.
12
Australian citizen's private medical files will be shared among health professionals under a Government plan for a contentious healthcare card.
13
New Rule Expands DNA Collection in the United States to all noncitizens detained by authorities and all people arrested for federal crimes.
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All travel plans to be tracked by British Government.
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British DNA database has records of over 1 million children. Up to half those included have no criminal record.
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British Government plans to keep DNA samples of innocent people.
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DNA of one-year-old baby stored on British national database.
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British Police store photos of peaceful protesters on criminal database.
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How the British Government plans to record intimate information on every child in Britain.
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857,000 British DNA records must be now wiped clear.
21
The Bush administration has overturned a 22-year-old policy and now allows customs agents to seize, read and copy documents from travelers at airports and borders without suspicion of wrongdoing.
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What is the UK National Identity Scheme?
23
Arizona uses cameras to scan thousands of license plates on a daily basis, then stores the data in the Arizona Department of Public Safety database.
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In Britain, £1,000 penalties for out-of-date ID details.
25
New York City MetroCard used to trace a murder suspect's movements on the night of a shooting several months after the arrest.
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