Digital spying: The ways of tracking our behaviour online are becoming more sophisticated. [New Statesman]
Lidl, the Big Brother supermarket, is watching you: The Stasi secret police may have died with communism but its surveillance methods are still alive at Lidl, the German supermarket chain. George Orwell’s Big Brother, it seems, stalks the aisles between the cornflakes and the canned dogfood. Detectives hired by Lidl - which has more than 7,000 stores worldwide, including 450 in Britain - have been monitoring romance at the cash till, visits to the lavatory and the money problems of shelf-stackers. [Times]
Growing Database of Tourist Fingerprints Raising Privacy Concerns: Four years ago, the U.S. began collecting digital fingerprints from non-citizens. Its database now contains 90 million fingerprints, and counting. [AlterNet]
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