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U.S. Wins Dubious 'Big Brother' Award

Privacy International named a U.S. program to fingerprint foreign visitors as the year’s most menacing project, which has been undertaken “with little or no debate or scrutiny.”
UK airports will go live with iris scans.

The first biometric immigration controls will go live at Heathrow airport this spring.
UK Big Brother Awards 2005 date announced.

On June 23 2005, Privacy International will stage the 7th annual UK Big Brother Awards to recognise the people and organisations that have done the most to devastate privacy & civil liberties in the UK.
Victory for privacy activists

Draft legislation allowing widespread sharing of personal data among government agencies, bypassing the Data Protection Act, has now been changed after a campaign by Privacy International and other groups.
Will DNA profiling fuel prejudice?

Some experts argue that the National DNA Database's size and power mean it poses a serious threat to civil liberties.
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