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Home Office stories: 3 news summaries
investigation

Fraud Colleges Admit Terror Suspects to UK

Alleged al-Qaeda members enrolled in ring of fake schools

May 21, 09 8:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Thousands of young Pakistanis have entered Britain by applying for visas to study at sham colleges that issue fake diplomas and attendance records, the Times of London reports. Ten of the 12 men arrested last month when police busted an alleged al-Qaeda plot were enrolled at a bogus college; other... More »

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Afghanistan • Pakistan • United Kingdom • student • colleges and universities • North West Frontier Province • Home Office

I Say, Old Chap, Big Brother Is Watching Twitter

UK government weighs monitoring social sites for security threats

Mar 25, 09 9:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - The British government wants to keep an eye on what people are doing on Facebook. On the lookout for terrorist plots, the Home Office has provoked an outcry from civil libertarians by floating a plan to track users of social networking sites, which were previously free of government monitoring, reports... More »

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social networking • MySpace • Facebook • surveillance • Britain • Bebo • Twitter • Home Office • Internet privacy

 UK Airports to Scan Faces 

Technology will match passengers' mugs to biometric passports

Apr 25, 08 12:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - New facial recognition technology in which computers scan faces and match them to information encoded in biometric passports will be used at UK airports for the first time this summer, the Guardian reports. Authorities say the machines will outperform humans and improve security, but critics fear the technology will cause... More »

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terrorism • airport security • border security • facial recognition technology • false negatives • iris recognition • UK Border Agency • advance passenger information • Project Semaphore • Home Office

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