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Police planning to delete billions of personal journey records

A meeting of the embryonic Automatic Number Plate Recognition privacy advisory group on 10 November was told that the Metropolitan Police are planning to delete of some 4 billion items of vehicle...

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National ANPR conference 2016 – speech on challenge and oversight

I was invited to address the National ANPR Conference in York on 22 November about my work to modernise accountability and scrutiny of the vital ANPR system.  As ever when addressing a police...

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In memoriam Steph Clarke

We were horrified to hear today of the sudden death of Steph Clarke from a brain haemorrage.  Steph was one half of WV11 the outstanding local website for Wednesfield that she ran with her husband...

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Response to draft CCTV strategy

Today I responded to the consultation on a ‘Draft national surveillance camera strategy for England and Wales’ published by the Surveillance Camera Commissioner.  My response is below:   >I have...

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Digital opportunities presented by Brexit – Cardiff discussion

A small group met last week at TramshedTech in Cardiff to discuss opportunities that Brexit might offer for the digital sphere in Wales.  This meeting was part of my early work for the Carnegie UK...

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Back to the Brexit – simple exercise for discussing Brexit issues

It’s tricky to find a way of discussing Brexit positively that doesn’t descend into confusion, fantasy free trade or worse, ranting, recriminations and refighting the campaign.  In Newcastle last...

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Let sleeping hyperlocals lie?

Once upon a time, I ran a hyperlocal website that looked at the politics in Stoke-on-Trent, you might of heard of Pits n Pots? I ran the site with Tony and other contributors, it was a community...

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A vision for regulating the digital sphere after Brexit?

As part of my work for Carnegie UK Trust on Brexit and the digital sphere I am considering the future of regulation during and post Brexit.   Economic activity in the UK digital sphere is profoundly...

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Hyperlocal blog can help hold power to account in tower block blaze

The tragic Grenfell tower fire in West London has brought to the fore an excellent local action group blog for the area that, for years had been raising fire safety problems.  The media and twitter...

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So what does the digital charter mean?

The government has put into the Queen’s speech a commitment to bring forward proposals for a Digital Charter which sort of will and won’t regulate internet content.  It’s set out below in the...

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