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<H3><A href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/03/16/1612203.shtml">UK's MI5 Wants
Oyster Card Travel Data</A> </H3></DIV></DIV>
<DIV class=details><B>Posted by Soulskill on Sunday March 16,
@01:15PM</B><BR><STRONG>from the <B>you-can-trust-us</B> dept.</STRONG> </DIV>
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<DIV class=intro>Boiled Frog from a Nation of Suspects writes <I>"The Oyster
card, an RFID single-swipe card (which was <A
href="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/london_tube_sma.html">recently
cracked</A>), was introduced to London's public transport users purportedly to
make their lives easier. Now, British Intelligence services want some of the
benefits by trawling through the travel data amassed by the card to <A
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/mar/16/uksecurity.terrorism">spy on the
17 million Britons who use it</A>. The article notes, "Currently the security
services can demand the Oyster records of specific individuals under
investigation to establish where they have been, but cannot trawl the whole
database. But supporters of calls for more sharing of data argue that apparently
trivial snippets — like the journeys an individual makes around the capital —
could become important pieces of the jigsaw when fitted into a pattern of other
publicly held information on an individual's movements, habits, education and
other personal details. That could lead, they argue, to the unmasking of
otherwise undetected suspects."</I> </DIV></DIV></DIV><!-- google_ad_section_end (name=yro) -->
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