Wednesday, 30 April 2014

New & Digital Media: Week 17 / Week 12 IN&DM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27203371 - Goverment PC makes Muslim Wikipedia edit.

Wikipedia is known as a informative page, and members of the public are able to change stuff on the page, allowing the public to update pages about: Countries, towns, musicians and athletes and recently the Wikipedia regarding Muslims, and it was revealed that through a Goverment PC someone went to the section named 'Veil' and put the insulting words: 'All Muslims are terrorists', one of many edits made to the page. Goverment PC's have been under the spotlight in the last few weeks due to the Liverpool Echo revealing how a Goverment PC had made insulting remarks to the Hillsborough tragedy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27225649 - Delays to travel caused by IT glitch 

Passengers at several airports and seaports have faced hours of delays thanks to an IT glitch. The fault on the UK border patrol computers caused major delays and the glitch meant that the   UK border force had to input passport details manually rather than scanning them. The problem affected both self-service e-Passport gates - which operate by running a facial recognition check against a traveller's passport - and manned customs desks.



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