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“Obnoxious autocrats”
From Alan Rusbridger’s Guardian interview with Google’s Eric Schmidt: He decided against exploiting facial recognition, which he sees as wide open to abuse, and warns of the dangers of combining such technology with London-style traffic cameras. “You could imagine aggressive, obnoxious … Continue reading
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Red light Ken (Houdini?)
In the Evening Standard last week, Ken Livingstone’s No.2, Val Shawcross, was quoted as saying, “You’re elected to represent the public interest and that’s what you do.” In what way was Livingstone acting in the public interest when, during his … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Dylan, Equality Streets, filter-in-turn, Houdini, Ken Livingstone, traffic-lights
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Red light Ken (and my road rage)
Ken Livingstone, who during his reign added 1200 sets of traffic lights to London streets, now “pledges to install traffic lights to give cyclists a five second head start,” reports The Times. Boris too “is considering early green lights,” chirps … Continue reading
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Tagged cyclist safety, Equality Streets, Evening Standard, Ken Livingstone, The Times, traffic-lights
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Red light Ken
Ken Livingstone says (ES, 7.4.11), “We now know that at least 4,000 people die prematurely every year because of poor air quality.” Bizarre that it has taken him so long to wise up to this well-known fact. Under his watch … Continue reading
