We came up with a few ideas.
The key point to remember is this is the caveat that the uses of ICT need to be ways "to combat threats to individuals and society". That actually takes out some possible uses.
Stuff that you might want to consider:
Police:
- HOLMES is an obvious one
- CCTV
- Number plate recognition -wiki page
- Speed cameras perhaps
- Facial recognition stuff (from biometric data - they started using this at airports last summer) - a lot of odd biometric stuff is covered in this Guardian article. This is the wikipedia page on Facial recognition systems. How Stuff Works also has a page on this.
- Things like swabs for explosive residue maybe?
- Databases used by people like the probation service would, presumably, make it easier to track where people are and not to lose them
- Offender tags?
- Maybe stuff connected to courts?
- Law Technology News is almost certainly worth a look. You'll need to dig out the useful stuff, but there's probably something here if you're struggling for interesting legal stuff.
- Certainly stuff like the Financial Services Authority is OK - the potential for insider trading, for example, could destabilise the financial system and therefore be a threat to society
- The DVLA maybe - although how you'd link this to a threat I'm less sure: perhaps through keeping a record of which cars have tax - are untaxed cars more likely to be driven by people who are a risk (e.g. disqualified or untrained?) and less likely to be uninsured, which pushes up everyone else's insurance? Tricky though.
- Maybe things like the TV licence people - but I'm not sure how this comes down to a threat.
- The Nuclear Inspectorate people
Not forgetting that they can't be control systems.
There's all sorts of good stuff here, mainly aiming at my Applied A Level classes.
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