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Booze shops get ID card lessons

More shops than cards

6 Nov 11:12

Cybercriminals down five British police forces in a year

For more than three days each

5 Nov 10:39

FBI techs shy away from facial recognition

Spends 40 years losing face

3 Nov 13:58

Airwave cop-comms to be 'brought to life' for Olympics

'U-turn' West coughs up £39m for Games upgrades

3 Nov 10:02

Olympic ticket scams already starting, says top e-cop

Beijing Games was proof of concept

2 Nov 10:02

More than 5 million people now on DNA database

Still growing despite court ruling

28 Oct 11:31

Plods' 'extremist' sheet included BAE mole

Grauniad protester-outing campaign takes new twist

28 Oct 11:07

Guardian in hot water over activist face flash

Scores own goal by using police arguments to defend self

26 Oct 15:45

Immigration authorities swoop on Currys depot

DSGi self-snitch avoids prosecution

23 Oct 14:44

DNA database reports shows costs up, 'detections' down

Analysis Worst tool we've got apart from all the others...

23 Oct 14:18

Police make a mockery of data protection

Comment Court judgment 'forgets privacy rights of millions'

21 Oct 10:01

New police crime-mapping system crashes on first outing

Can't map out for falling down

20 Oct 12:16

Airport rethinks strip-scanner for kids

Nudity no longer mandatory for under-18s

15 Oct 12:10

Olympic builders hit with biometrics - local residents next?

If your face don't fit, you're for the high jump

13 Oct 09:08

Cambridgeshire cops get coy with FOI

Keeping schtum on Scorpions shenanigans

6 Oct 10:56

CCTV website recruits video vigilantes

Time on your hands? Into ghosts?

5 Oct 13:40

Police charge anarchist over G20 protest network

Man had Marx poster and Twitter account

5 Oct 10:54

Panicky Plod apologises to Innocent Terror Techie

Watch your knapsack

24 Sep 12:12

Secret teen hacker army ridiculed

Wayward minister making stuff up again?

24 Sep 09:14

Don't trust Tories on surveillance, say LibDems

Cleggs & co promise to give the database state a kicking

23 Sep 09:37

North Wales Police says the law is what they say it is

When you're in a hole, you need to stop digging

23 Sep 09:21

'Buy puke-rays and we'll donate to police widows & orphans'

Make a move and the kid gets it

22 Sep 15:15

Environment Agency goes to High Court for right to spy

A RIPA idea

21 Sep 11:26

North Wales Police institute new happiness law

Content a copper - or else, boyo!

18 Sep 12:24

Rights commission slams police DNA database advice

Still adding innocents? Well, don't

16 Sep 07:02

Rise in Northern Ireland violence highlights data failing

No intelligence on 'Mad Dog' terrorist

14 Sep 11:04

Met shops self to IPCC over terror toddlers

We're nicked. But you're still awfully suss, shorty

11 Sep 07:02

IWF takes 'pragmatic' stance on level one images

Doesn't want to be 'forever embroiled' in grey areas

10 Sep 09:58

Met: We shan't scrap Form 696

Red-tape-tastic risk form now racist-undertone-free

8 Sep 13:15

IWF chief: We don't need crusaders

Interview El Reg speaks to URL-blocker boss Peter Robbins

8 Sep 12:00

CRB checks can take years to complete

Come on, while we're young!

8 Sep 09:41

Investigators blind on P2P child abuse

Encryption on the rise too

7 Sep 11:33

Police drop case against admin over animal rights comments

Probe of judge's exposure on Indymedia UK continues

4 Sep 14:32

Home Office foot-dragging exposes ACPO to criticism

But talk of a rift is premature

3 Sep 11:14

California child kidnapper stalked Street View van

Phillip Garrido caught on camera?

1 Sep 12:18

Dole bludger fined for BNP leak

List leaker was party insider

1 Sep 12:15

Man beaten and stabbed by Gumtree scammers

Police issue common sense warning

26 Aug 12:50

Met hires Twitter consultancy

Outsourced hive-mind ego surfing

25 Aug 12:01

UK cops eye shotgun cartridge Taser

'eXtended Range Electronic Projectile' a bad mofo

24 Aug 13:39

Handset makers, the criminal's friend

See no evil, speak no evil

21 Aug 18:37

Police drag feet following DNA law change

Green's off - 850,000 to go

20 Aug 11:49

Devon force divulges ANPR towns online

TV promo website spills the beans

20 Aug 09:32

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