A new petition on the No.10 e-petitions website calls for signatories opposed to the Private Member’s Bill that would exempt the Westminster Parliament from its own FoI Act. The petition is sponsored by Barry Winetrobe at the Centre for Law at Napier University and he’s hoping that with enough supporters, this bill will be rejected.   more »

I don’t normally like video’s, they normally tend to smack of conspiracy, but this one amusingly sums up the Britain of Britain today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whiOj5Oc_qw 

My hats off to the originators.

 

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I wrote a few weeks ago about how Gordon Brown was consolidating his hold on Government. How the whole of Government will be centred around the Treasury and the non ministerial executive agency the HMRC, which now has the most far reaching draconian powers ever seen in British history. Gordon has now revealed how he will take that further.   more »

The Daily Mail today reported that Britain has become so dependent on taxpayer-funded jobs that nearly one worker in four is on the state payroll. The high level of public sector employment revealed in official figures Monday has been compared with that in the former Soviet bloc. We all know what happened to the Soviet Union, the only way that they were able to retain power was the totalitarian route.   more »

The ethical, legal and societal implications of ICTs are one of the three main priorities of UNESCO’s Information for All Programme and UNESCO was recently designated as the Facilitator for the implementation of Action Line C10 “Ethical Dimensions of the Information Society” of the Geneva Action Plan adopted by the World Summit on the Information Society.   more »

While the UK is fighting hard to keep the government from squeezing every last penny out of its citizenry for putting a car on the road, Germans are sticking two fingers up at the unelected European Commission over a suggestion that they should limit the speed on Autobahn’s   more »

In my blog yesterday I wrote about how the ID card scheme in the UK is being driven by the eID programme in Europe, and what organisations within the unelected European Commission are driving that forward. One recurring theme was refernce to the PEGSCO secretariat who approves EC e-policy. It would appear that as a secretariat PEGSCO does not exist, and at best it is a one man secretariat.   more »