Red vs. Blue Blog (Free subscription) | 27/12/2008
Wikileaks: The UK has recently introduced a national Internet censorship scheme, a national ID card and is about to spend 12 billion pounds pushing the British population's web-searches, emails, sms messages and telephone callings records through a central database run by its spy agency, GCHQ. This month saw a secret UK court hearing, with secret participants, produce a secret order to secretly gag...
cellular-news (Free subscription) | 18/12/2008
Itâs planned the âblack boxâ data harvesters that the electronic surveillance agency GCHQ wants to deploy throughout the UK communications infrastructure will be inserted in Vodafone and BTâs networks initially.
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | 17/12/2008
Irish News 16/12/08 IT would be an “affront to justice” if British intelligence services were not forced to reveal all material linked to mobile phone conversations recorded on the day of the Omagh bombing, the High Court heard yesterday. Lawyers for victims’ relatives who are seeking any tapes, transcripts or notes as part of their multi-million pound compensation claim against five men they blame...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Britain's security and intelligence agencies - MI5, MI6 and GCHQ - have launched their own investigation into the Mumbai terrorist attacks and its implications for the UK, Whitehall officials said yesterday. They are studying the tactics of the terrorists and investigating how they were financed, Whitehall counter-terrorist officials told the Guardian. They want to know precisely what links there...
Fergie's Tech Blog (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
"If GCHQ and the Whitehall securocats cannot even keep information of a 'personal nature'" about a British Prime Minister's 'private life' out of the clutches of foreign intelligence agency phone interception system, then why should they be trusted with the massive Communications Traffic Data centralised database, which Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is planning to inflict on tens of millions of innocent...
DarkGovernment (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the surveillance arm of the intelligence services, has become the first spy agency to embed advertisements for new recruits inside computer games. The advertisements as depicted on the left, will appear as billboards in the fictional landscapes of games including Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Double Agent. They will not be written into [...]
Home Office Watch (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
A top Government security consultant seems to think so. Both the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary have insisted that the ID card scheme will reduce the risk of terrorism and improve national security. However, GCHQ advisor Harvey Mattinson told an IT security conference this week that “Those claims are absolute bunkum.” Gordon Brown said earlier this year [...]
Colin Ross News Stories (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
Today's Daily Telegraph brings news that even a GCHQ security expert doubts the supposed benefits of ID cards:
UK Libertarian Party (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
I'm surprised that few seem to have picked up on this, so better late than never... Speaking at the Society of Information Technology Management annual conference, Harvey Mattinson, a senior consultant at GCHQ's Information Assurance arm ( CESG , formerly the Communications Electronics Security Group) said that claims from ministers that ID cards will help to prevent terrorism are " absolute bunkum...
The Daily Dust (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
MP Sent 1984 as ID Cards Rubbished and Addresses to be made secret. A little bit of serendipity… Harvey Mattinson is a former Consultant at GCHQ, the Government’s central ‘electronic surveillance’ location) and has said that Ministers claims that the ID card and National Database would enhance national security are rubbish. All they will be [...]
The Last Ditch (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
Gordon Brown's terror claims for ID cards are "bunkum" says GCHQ expert - Telegraph.Don't believe a mere security expert. Why would our beloved politicians lie to us? After all, if..the only real value of identity cards would be to help...
An Englishman's Castle (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
Gordon Brown's terror claims for ID cards are "bunkum" says GCHQ expert - Telegraph Gordon Brown's claims that a national ID card scheme would help prevent terrorist attacks are "absolute bunkum" according to a senior Government security adviser. Harvey Mattinson,...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
When Susannah was young she dreamt of becoming a spy — she was attracted by the mystery and glamour of James Bond’s world, the idea of protecting her country and by the prospect of uncovering secrets.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
Gordon Brown's claims that a national ID card scheme would prevent terrorist attacks are "absolute bunkum" according to a senior Government security adviser.
ID in the News (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
Dean Carroll writes in Public Servant magazine: The claims from ministers that ID cards will help to prevent terrorism are “absolute bunkum” according to a leading figure within the electronic security arm of GCHQ. Instead, the cards are an essential part of the transformational government agenda that will require all public bodies to share information in [...]
