Comments on: FT.com: Problems with London Mayor Boris Johnson’s crime map plan http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/05/29/ftcom-problems-with-london-mayor-boris-johnsons-crime-map-plan/ Online journalism news Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:01:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Colin http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/05/29/ftcom-problems-with-london-mayor-boris-johnsons-crime-map-plan/#comment-5226 Colin Fri, 30 May 2008 11:53:52 +0000 http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/05/29/ftcom-problems-with-london-mayor-boris-johnsons-crime-map-plan/#comment-5226 agreed. Privacy is an serious issue, however, the police are already practiced in carefully giving out information. Our experience at Spotcrime.com in the US is that the data has been pre-scrubbed for privacy issues. Ultimately, we are just requesting the right to aggregate the data on a map. agreed. Privacy is an serious issue, however, the police are already practiced in carefully giving out information.

Our experience at Spotcrime.com in the US is that the data has been pre-scrubbed for privacy issues.

Ultimately, we are just requesting the right to aggregate the data on a map.

]]> By: Murray Dick http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/05/29/ftcom-problems-with-london-mayor-boris-johnsons-crime-map-plan/#comment-5225 Murray Dick Thu, 29 May 2008 13:13:19 +0000 http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/05/29/ftcom-problems-with-london-mayor-boris-johnsons-crime-map-plan/#comment-5225 Data protection??? Unless they propose to publish the names and addresses of crime victims, surely what is proposed is no more than an accumulation of information which is already in the public domain via national and local news agencies, and local police initiatives. Still you can see why it would be popular with any government - just sit back and watch those house prices drop, then bung all the 'key workers' in there - and hand the brownfield set aside for social housing over to casino developers... Data protection???

Unless they propose to publish the names and addresses of crime victims, surely what is proposed is no more than an accumulation of information which is already in the public domain via national and local news agencies, and local police initiatives.

Still you can see why it would be popular with any government - just sit back and watch those house prices drop, then bung all the ‘key workers’ in there - and hand the brownfield set aside for social housing over to casino developers…

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