Just eight days after French Magazine Charlie Hebdo published a special edition, following attacks on its offices, UK police had been given lists of newsagents that planned to sell the magazine. Emails released by Wiltshire Police show that a list of newsagents in Wiltshire was circulated on 22nd January, three weeks after the attacks. The …
The Police National Database holds more than 15 million mugshots of people. These can all be searched using the police’s facial recognition software. Any image (whether it is a social media, or a CCTV image) can be uploaded to the system and compared against the images that are in the database. “Facial search can be …
I think it will take a little while to beat this… The chair of a House of Lords committee looking at drones was "horrified" when she recently discovered Google Maps pic.twitter.com/ic9Ronu0d6 — Matt Burgess (@mattburgess1) October 20, 2014
The Metropolitan Police’s report into the ‘Plebgate’ affair is set to be published ‘at the end of the summer’, the force has said. The report relates to the Operation Alice which is looking into the incident involving Andrew Mitchell at the gates of Downing Street in 2012. Originally the probe, from the biggest police force in …
They might have only be small fees of £1 a time, but Companies House has stopped charging for information. In a small, but significant, victory for open data enthusiasts the service has decided to waiver the fee for information relating to companies. It’ll be free from the middle of next year. For those ego really wanted …