Posts Tagged ‘UK government’
Monster Mash (Up)
The UK Government is running a competition offering participants up to £20,000 if they can create new uses for existing free sources of government data by combining the data into new and useful information (a mash-up). You can find a link to the data here.
The volume of data is immense. I started...
July 2nd, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More
UK Email and Phone Database
The BBC reported today that the UK government is planning a tracking database for all phone calls made and emails sent in the UK.
This strikes me as an unbelievably stupid plan. In the first place, every UK citizen will be baulking at this incredible intrusion into civil liberties. Second, it is highly...
May 20th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

