White Rose is a protest blog collective focusing on civil liberties in the UK.
It was set up to point a finger at the erosion of personal freedom in the UK.
Government's active measures introduce new means of control such as identity cards and surveillance cameras, the passive measures such as weakening of double jeopardy and presumption of innocence.


The arguments
The resistants
Gabriel Syme and Perry de Havilland of Samizdata.net to rally the Anglosphere behind the UK.
White Rose contributors are those bloggers and non-bloggers who oppose restrictions on personal liberties.

To find out how to become a White Rose contributor, please go here.
Tuesday, September 23, 2003
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Brian Micklethwait (London)
(0)   Technology

David Sucher has another post on ubiquitous computing. He quotes from the sales puff for one manifestation of this stuff:

IntelliBadgeTM: Towards Providing Location-Aware Value-Added Services at Academic Conferences ... The major characteristic of this project is the fusion of RFID technology, database management, data mining, real-time information visualization, and interactive web application technologies into an operational integrated system deployed at a major public conference. The developed system tracks conference attendees ...

Sounds like another one for Natalie's list.


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