thelondonpaper: Boris’s London crime map hits a stumbling block over privacy issues
Wednesday, 25 June 2008, 20:46 via del.icio.us/martinstabe
"It is understood [mayor Boris] Johnson is trying to get round the setback [to his crime mapping plan] by tailoring the scheme to satisfy the [infomration commissoner]". Read More...
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1. Charles | 26 June 2008 at 1402
I think TLP and the Times, which both have this story (same stable, repurposed) need to be specific about what the IC doesn’t like, because the proposals *already* had non-specificity built in.
The imprecision of information in the newspapers’ stories is only matched by the imprecision of the IC in what it wants. Frankly, they’re *all* doing a lousy, lousy job.
2. colin | 28 June 2008 at 2126
In the interim, we’ve created a London crime map at SpotCrime.com. We are using news data which is sparse, but it is a start.
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