The Metropolitan Police Service has signed a identity and access management deal with BT's Global Services division. Under the contract, BT will integrate elements from existing systems to create a comprehensive identity and access management system.

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The European Commission has announced plans for Europe to play a leading part in developing and managing interconnected networks formed from everyday objects with radio frequency identity (RFID) tags embedded in them - the so-called "internet of things". The EC expects there will be a progressive connection of a variety of physical objects, such as food packaging that records temperature along its supply chain, or prescription drugs that warn patients of a possible incompatibility.

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More than 80 per cent of UK consumers believe it is everyone’s right to be able to have broadband access at home, according to research.

And nearly three-quarters of home broadband users now say they could not live without the service, says the survey by influential advisory group the Communications Consumer Panel.

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US officials are worried that the 20-year-old global positioning system (GPS) that sat-navs and other navigation devices rely on could begin to fail by next year. A report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), said that a lack of investment in satellites means that some are close to failing.

The GPS network is run by the US military and used by a number of commercial firms internationally for sat-nav systems.

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IT services supplier Logica has won the £75m contract to deliver a new national police database to improve intelligence sharing among forces across the UK.

The Police National Database is part of the Impact programme that  will finally allow police forces to electronically share, access and search existing local intelligence and operational information nationally.

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The government is considering monitoring communications on social networking sites, ministers have revealed.

The recent introduction to UK law of the EU Data Retention Directive means that ISPs are now required to keep information on email and internet use.

But home officer minister Vernon Coaker told a Commons committee yesterday that social networking sites, such as Facebook, MySpace or Bebo, are not covered by the new laws.

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The Royal Navy is having to take delivery of new anti-missile destroyers without the missiles, radars and computer systems needed to detect and counter attacks because of delays and cost over-runs that have added £1.5bn so far to the original £5bn estimate.

A National Audit Office report blames over-optimism in earlier years, inappropriate commercial arrangements and poor project management, but said there have been no further delays or cost increases since the project was re-negotiated in 2007.

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The House of Lords Constitution Committee report Surveillance: Citizens and the State makes 44 recommendations to protect individuals from invasions of their privacy related to surveillance and data collection.

The report urged the government to exercise more restraint over the use of data collection and electronic surveillance powers amid fears it is "undermining" the right to individual privacy and liberty.

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The government has begun to advertise for an independent commissioner to oversee the £4.7bn National Identity Scheme.

The post is intended to reassure the public that the scheme will not be subject to function creep and impinge further on civil liberties.

Home secretary Jacqui Smith said the commissioner will be formally independent and have a high public profile as a defendant of citizens' interests.

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The government has published the responses to a consultation on illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing which shows that none of the proposed solutions to the problem received widespread support.

The government's preferred solution to the problem of unlawful P2P file sharing is a co-operative approach to pursuing illegal downloaders. But it is difficult to regulate as ISPs say they are not responsible for the content of what passes through their connections.

"We received some opposing views on other issues - including regulation - reflecting the fact that this is a complex and challenging problem," said Stephen Carter, minister for technology, communications and broadband.

"We are now examining what the best way forward is and will set out the next steps in the interim Digital Britain report later this month."

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