David Walliams says surveillance is a 'creeping ratchit forward' to what we already have. He warns that the way data gathering stories have gone in recent years, it's potentially very alarming. The only solutions are legal ones, and ensuring there are protections in law to prevent this data from being misused.
Five American states held primary elections yesterday. The most important were in
Pennsylvania, where a Trump-backed candidate won the Republican gubernatorial primary. The Republican senate race remains too close to call.
Wide-area motion imaging is a surveillance technique developed by the military in Iraq but now creeping into the civilian world. And why war in Ukraine is raising the price of
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