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	<title>Big Brother Uncovered UK</title>
	<link>http://big-brother-uncovered.co.uk</link>
	<description>The rise of electronic surveillance and the loss of personal privacy in the UK.</description>
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		<title>BT sees ad sense and abandons Phorm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Register reports today that BT has abandoned plans to rollout its controversial Phorm web advert targeting technology.
BT was planning to go into partnership with web tracking technology company Phorm to deliver targeted ads at its customers.  The technology is suspect because Phorm would track all of your activity on the web to determine which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://big-brother-uncovered.co.uk/2009/bt-sees-ad-sense-and-abandons-phorm/</link>
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		<title>ANPR network records and watches your every move</title>
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A recent edition of  BBC program &#8220;Who&#8217;s Watching You&#8221; has revealed that UK police forces, with the knowledge of the UK government, is building a national grid network of ANPR cameras.
ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) cameras automatically read the number plate of passing cars and check with DVLA databases whether the vehicle is correctly registered, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://big-brother-uncovered.co.uk/2009/anpr-network-watches-and-records-your-every-move/</link>
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		<title>CCTV Cameras will soon be listening to you as well</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The BBC has reported that trials have recently occurred in Scotland of using street based CCTV cameras that monitor sounds as well.
The trials have been performed by a Dutch company called Sound Intelligence.  As you pass by, the CCTV camera analyses the tone of your voice rather than what you are actually saying.  Presumably if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://big-brother-uncovered.co.uk/2009/cctv-cameras-will-soon-be-listening-to-you-as-well/</link>
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		<title>Spy Chiefs Plan to Monitor Internet Traffic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday (3rd May 2009) The Register, a UK online technology publisher, along with the Sunday Times published details on how the government&#8217;s surveillance service GCHQ is building a system to monitor all UK internet traffic and telephone calls.
The GCHQ project is called &#8220;Mastering the Internet&#8221; (MTI) which sums it all up perfectly!
The articles quote sources [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://big-brother-uncovered.co.uk/2009/spy-chiefs-plan-to-monitor-internet-traffic/</link>
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		<title>Phil Zimmerman Speaks Out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Computer security guru and privacy expert Phil Zimmerman has spoken out against the increasing use of surveillance technology in the UK.
Speaking to the BBC the article quotes Zimmerman as saying &#8220;The UK is risking sliding unwittingly into a police state because of the growing use of surveillance technology&#8221;.
Zimmerman is famous for inventing the PGP (Pretty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://big-brother-uncovered.co.uk/2009/phil-zimmerman-speaks-out/</link>
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		<title>Home Office &#8220;Colluded with Phorm&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The BBC reports today that the UK Government Home Office colluded with internet tracking firm Phorm.
It appears that the Home Office were working with Phorm in drawing up guidance advice on targeted adverts.  Home Office officials also offered &#8220;personal&#8221; advice as to whether the technology acted as an interception of communications, and whether it was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://big-brother-uncovered.co.uk/2009/home-office-colluded-with-phorm/</link>
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		<title>Most people in the UK oppose data retention laws</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent  poll by the Metro newspaper showed that most people don&#8217;t want their internet browsing and e-mails intercepted by the UK Government.
The UK Government recently introduced new laws requiring all ISPs and telecommunication companies to record details about all internet traffic, e-mails and telephone calls that pass through their systems.
In the survey 60% of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://big-brother-uncovered.co.uk/2009/most-people-in-the-uk-oppose-data-retention-laws/</link>
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		<title>Satellite Tracking of School Buses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent BBC Wales News story tells how counties in North Wales are launching a scheme to provide GPS tracking of school buses and to make it available to parents.  So parent will now be able to track their precious child to and from school.  It&#8217;s all being rolled out in the name of reducing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://big-brother-uncovered.co.uk/2009/satellite-tracking-of-school-buses/</link>
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		<title>Welcome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the UK as individuals we seem to be under increasing scrutiny from Government and Big Business.  Our personal privacy is under attack and everything we do seems to be recorded using new technology &#8211; from big brother cameras on the street to government mandated ISP tracking, to Phorm, to ANPR tracking as you drive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://big-brother-uncovered.co.uk/2009/welcome/</link>
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