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The Hidden Face of Technolgy: Is Technology Turning Britain into a Fascist State?
The Hidden Face of Technology discusses the databases that are kept by organisations and governments and the personal information that is stored and exchanged in order to catalogue and monitor us all. The author has included details about the potential misuse of technology that is now in place and used by many companies, law enforcement agencies and
government departments. He describes how legislation is being changed to support these technologies and the new policies that are trying to be implemented.
Learn how using your loyalty card ina supermarket could affect your council tax.
Find out what personal information is gathered from you each time you shop or go on the Internet and how it is openly traded between other organisations, police and governments.
Learn how school library fingerprinting could implicate yor child in future crimes.
There are more CCTV cameras watching you in Britain than any other country in the world. Each school provides the government with over forty pieces of information about your child. Every e-mail you send and receive is scanned. Your Internet browsing is monitored and recorded. Your car number plate will be recorded and checked against 40 databases each time you refuel.
Introduction
Chapter 1: The History of Video Surveillance in the UK
Chapter 2: Surveillance While You Sleep
Chapter 3: ID Cards, Passports, Travel Documents and Biometric Scans
Chapter 4: Databases
Chapter 5: Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR)
Chapter 6: How Reliable are Biometric Sensors?
Chapter 7: Get the Kids Fingerprinted
Chapter 8: Communications Monitoring
Chapter 9: E-mail Monitoring
Chapter 10: Security Issues
Chapter 11: Spyware, Trojans, Worms, Adware and Scumware
Chapter 12: Wireless Networks
Chapter 13: Make Your Hard Drive Secure
Chapter 14: Keeping Personal Information Private When Using the Internet
Chapter 15: Cell Phones
Chapter 16: Supermarket Loyalty Cards
Conclusion
Resources
Further Reading
Questions to the Author
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