France’s Minister for the Interior (Home Secretary), Michele Alliot-Marie, has restated in an interview with Le Monde October 12th, her intention to dramatically increase the amount of CCTV video surveillance in the country.
– The Telegraph
If you have an online bank account then you will almost certainly be asked for your mother’s maiden name before entering sensitive areas. This is regarded by the banks as a near-perfect security question because only you and your immediate family will know that fact. How wrong can they get.
Your mother’s maiden name, along with other personal information, is very available online – from the register of births, marriages and deaths – and can be picked up by search engines. I found this out for myself when, after yet another scam on my bank account, I signed up to a service that claims to discover how much sensitive information is out there on the web so I can at least take precautions against it happening again.
– The Guardian
A make-up artist who disguised a gang said to have carried out Britain’s biggest cash robbery is to identify the men involved.
Michelle Hogg, 32, had been charged, along with seven men, with carrying out the GB pound 53 million armed raid at the Securitas sorting depot in Tonbridge, Kent, in February 2006. But earlier this month prosecutors offered no evidence against her and she was found not guilty of three charges.
– The Times
The Ministry of Defence will come under fresh pressure tomorrow to launch an independent inquiry into allegations of abuse of Iraqis by British soldiers after a fierce gun battle with insurgents three years ago.
Papers to be handed to the high court include witness statements, death certificates and a video taken by relatives of dead Iraqis showing bodies being taken to a hospital in Amara and bodybags being opened.
– The Guardian
