Biometric Security Delayed

Plans to introduce face recognition and fingerprint technology to control entry to the 2012 Olympics construction site are still out to tender. This is despite the fact that thousands of construction workers are already on site, constructing the building of a "ring of steel" fence around the Olympic Park.

The high tech security was meant to be in place by now.

An Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) claim that the current interim measures are robust.

That being the case, why do they need to to waste money on a high tech replacement?

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Big Brother

The 2012 London Olympics has given the state a rather nice excuse to beef up its surveillance of the general population, by linking up 500,000 CCTV cameras across the capital.

The Metropolitan Police (Met) force wants to pool its 10,000 cameras with traffic and congestion cameras across London.

The network will be operated from a command centre, in London, by military, police and intelligence services.

Assistant commissioner Tarique Ghaffur, Olympic Security Co-ordinator, said:

"Efforts focus on the capabilities we currently have and how these can be used efficiently to make London safer both now and during Games time.

A good example of this is how the current capabilities of various CCTV networks might be harnessed and integrated in London within the current legislative framework, to deliver greater effect in mitigating specific threats as part of the Olympic security effort."

The interesting thing is that even after the Olympics have ended, the command centre would remain in place.

Why?

Olympics Organisers Ban Olympics

In the farce that is the London Olympics 2012, one truth remains self evident; namely that the Olympics are not about sport, but about money.

Nothing demonstrates this point more clearly than the fuss that the London Olympics organisers have caused over a science fiction book by Robert Ronson.

Mr Ronson's crime?

The title he used for his book was "Olympic Mind Games".

The "good people" of the London Olympics decided that this could be viewed as a breach of copyright. In order to squeeze every last drop of money out of the games words such as "Olympics" and "2012" are copyrighted. Therefore, in theory, this site breaches also the copyright, as it liberally uses the word "Olympics".

The organising committee were so angst ridden about Mr Ronson's book, that they sent him an email asking that he desist from using the word "Olympic" and expressions such as "London 2012, or 2012 etc" in the title.

Seemingly the committee has the power to do so under statutes passed in 1995 and 2006. Nonetheless some common sense prevailed in the minds of the Olympic organisers as Ronson refused to kowtow, doubtless fearful of looking totally ridiculous, they have decided that it would be "disproportionate" to prosecute.

It is of course quite ridiculous to attempt to ban the use of words that are listed in dictionaries. Not that it stopped "Big Brother" from doing just that in Orwell's "1984".

Here is a list of banned words for you to savour:

-Olympics
-Olympic
-2012
-London 2012

Enjoy them whist you can, the thought police will be coming soon to stop you reading them; unless of course a nice fat fee has been paid first!