New UK govt to curb CCTV, scrap ID cards, help open source
By Nate Anderson
Last updated 2 days ago
The Britain of today is watched constantly by CCTV cameras, is preparing for a national ID card, slaps a "crown copyright" on most government data, and can now censor websites and eventually boot people off the Internet.英國今天是不斷地被閉路電視攝影機住，正準備着國民身分證，隨便地放置“女皇版權”在大多數政府數據上，和現在可以審查網站，並最終趕走人們離開互聯網。
According to the new Liberal Democrat/Tory coalition government, that's all about to change. The coalition today released its unified policy statement (PDF), and for techies and privacy advocates, there's lots to like.
根據新的自由民主黨 /保守黨聯合政府，這一切即將改變。聯盟今天公佈了它的統一政策聲明PDF），和對予技術人員和隱私倡導者，有很多會喜歡。
•We will scrap the ID card scheme, the National Identity register and the ContactPoint database, and halt the next generation of biometric passports.
我們將取消身份證計劃，國民身份登記和ContactPoint數據庫，並停止下一代的生物識別護照。
•We will outlaw the fingerprinting of children at school without parental permission.
沒有父母的許可，我們將取締兒童在學校的指紋。
•We will adopt the protections of the Scottish model for the DNA database.
我們將採用蘇格蘭的保護模型用予DNA數據庫。
•We will review libel laws to protect freedom of speech.
我們會檢討誹謗法律，以保護言論自由。
•We will further regulate CCTV.
我們將進一步規範閉路電視。
•We will end the storage of internet and e-mail records without good reason.
沒有充分的理由，我們將結束儲存互聯網和電子郵件記錄。
•We will create a level playing field for open-source software and will enable large ICT projects to be split into smaller components.
我們將創造一個公平競爭場地，給予開放源碼軟件，和使大型ICT項目可被分裂成更小的元件。
•We will create a new "right to data" so that government-held datasets can be requested and used by the public, and then published on a regular basis.
我們將創造一種新的“數據權”，使政府持有的數據集，公眾可以請求和使用，然後定期公佈。
•We will introduce measures to ensure the rapid roll-out of superfast broadband across the country. We will ensure that BT and other infrastructure providers allow the use of their assets to deliver such broadband, and we will seek to introduce superfast broadband in remote areas at the same time as in more populated areas. If necessary, we will consider using the part of the TV license fee that is supporting the digital switchover to fund broadband in areas that the market alone will not reach.
That last bit about broadband is a change from current Labour policies, which proposed a (hugely unpopular) 50p per month tax on broadband connections to help fund universal broadband infrastructure. The new proposal draws that money from the already-existing TV license fee.
In addition, the Lib Dems have separately pledged to roll back the worst excesses of the recent Digital Economy bill that brought Web censorship and possible Internet disconnection to the UK. At a party conference over the weekend, they asked ministers to "take all possible steps to ensure the repeal of those sections of the Digital Economy Act 2010 which are inconsistent with the policy motion 'Freedom, creativity and the internet'."
That document condemned, as its first point, "website-blocking and disconnecting Internet connections as a response to copyright infringement," and it trashed the Digital Economy bill "for focusing on illegal file-sharing rather than on nurturing creativity."
The document supported "the principle of net neutrality, through which all content, sites and platforms are treated equally by user access networks participating in the Internet."
Most of these policies sound like good ones, though talk is easy enough; execution may prove more difficult. Still, it's a reminder that conservatives and liberals can find common ground on issues surrounding privacy, open-source software in government, the need for universal broadband, and the importance of open government data.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/05/new-uk-govt-to-curb-cctv-scrap-id-cards-help-open-source.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
卡梅倫政府推行的新經濟政策將使約70萬人失業
2010年05月24日10:18
來源：人民網-國際頻道
人民網5月24日訊 （安國章）英國《星期日泰晤士報》報道說，卡梅倫上台后積極推行新經濟政策，而這一政策在未來幾年內將使約70萬人失業。
在倫敦出版的《中東報》今天引用《星期日泰晤士報》的消息說，受金融危機影響，英國經濟形勢嚴峻，財政赤字高達1560億英鎊。為挽救英國經濟，卡梅倫政府上台后積極推行新的政策，卡梅倫政府首先決定本財政年度實施減少60億英鎊赤字計劃，而政府壓縮開支將使許多人失去工作，甚至醫生、在第一線的軍人以及警察失業。在未來幾年內，卡梅倫要實施的緊縮政策會使30萬到70萬包括國防部等政府機構在內的公務員失去工作。
《星期日泰晤士報》報道說，國防部將裁減20萬人，僅倫敦警察局就會裁員445人，緊縮政策還涉及政府的消費，如政府工作人員出差交通費、旅館費等。財政部公布了一個數字，僅去年一年，政府官員和公共部門工作人員坐出租車就花了1。25億英鎊，住旅館費為3。2億英鎊，乘坐飛機等其他交通工具費用共7000萬英鎊。另外，政府各部委辦公室更新家具花費5。8億英鎊，刊登廣告費高達10億英鎊，搞其他宣傳活動花費7億英鎊。報道說，為節省政府開支，卡梅倫表示要以身作則，決定減少首相府的汽車和司機，今后首相辦公室家具更新發票必須由他親自簽字才能報銷。英國副首相、自民黨領袖克雷格也表示，“現在英國全國必須迅速行動起來，減少創紀錄的赤字問題，以避免使英國陷入深淵。”
英國經濟學家指出，卡梅倫政府抱負遠大，它要大幅度裁員，是對勞動力結構調整和使之更健康的歷史性機會，自工業革命以來，英國一直依靠工業部門發展經濟，但在過去40年內發生了巨大變化，工業部門的勞動力迅速減少，目前隻佔總勞動力的14%。按照過去傳統的經濟學字典，工業部門勞動力減少對經濟是個壞事情，現代經濟學卻持相反的觀點，先進的富裕國家工業部門勞動力較少不意味著經濟衰弱，而標志著經濟強勁，有活力，因為新技術革命代替了人類勞動。經濟學家認為，大力裁員會不僅會解決赤字問題，還將促使英國經濟復蘇和發展。
（責任編輯：李葉）
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