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Surveillance, Civil Liberties & Human Rights NewsRoots of surveillance standoff go back decadesFriday, May 9th, 2008 By Shane Harris | In the old days, everyone was linked to a lug nut, and Jim Kallstrom liked it that way. It was 1985, a simpler time for a cop like Kallstrom, who was in charge of setting telephone wiretaps on suspected drug dealers and mobsters for the FBI's New York City field office.
In New York, Kallstrom's cases were often won ...
The Challenge Of Modern SlaveryThursday, May 8th, 2008 By Loretta Napoleoni | Slavery is in our refrigerators. From fruit to beef, from sugar to coffee, slave labor brings food to our tables. “Miguel,” a Mexican slave freed by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a US human-rights organization, may have harvested the apples we eat at breakfast. Miguel picked fruit under guard in the United States. He had traveled to el ...
Abuse Claims Mount Against Pentagon, ContractorsThursday, May 8th, 2008 By William Fisher | As human rights groups demanded the release of a report on a long-running investigation of the role of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the unlawful interrogations of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay, new torture claims were leveled at two U.S. military contractors by a former Abu Ghraib "ghost" detainee who was wrongly ...
The New Whopper: Burger with a Side of SpiesThursday, May 8th, 2008 PR Watch | Author Eric Schlosser editorializes about "the growing threat to civil liberties posed by corporate spying," citing Burger King Corporation's spying on the Student/Farmworker Alliance and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, through Cara Schaffer and her private security ...
Data fear haunts ID card schemeWednesday, May 7th, 2008 By Mark Ballard | THE UK government has been warned that it should deal with the risk of data loss from its Identity Card Scheme before it proceeds any further.The latest data warning follows repeated requests from the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK data guardian, that the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) conduct a proper assessment of the risks ...
Government can’t be trusted with our personal informationTuesday, May 6th, 2008 By Margaret Smith | WE have seen only recently just how incompetent the Government is at keeping our personal information secure. Last year, HM Revenue and Customs lost computer discs containing the personal information of about 25 million people, including their bank account details and National Insurance numbers.
This is on top of the DVLA in Northern Ireland losing the personal details of ...
ID-cards are ‘theft’ of our civil libertiesTuesday, May 6th, 2008 By Robert and Alison Bell | The indiscriminate invasion of our privacy and the related issue of six weeks' detention without charge are so serious and far reaching that we should be hammering at the doors of our local MPs, particularly Labour MPs, to insist that these bills are overturned. Every one of us should be exercising what is still our democratic ...
CCTV boom has failed to slash crime, say policeTuesday, May 6th, 2008 By Owen Bowcott | Massive investment in CCTV cameras to prevent crime in the UK has failed to have a significant impact, despite billions of pounds spent on the new technology, a senior police officer piloting a new database has warned. Only 3% of street robberies in London were solved using CCTV images, despite the fact that Britain ...
DNA database solves 1 in 800 crimesMonday, May 5th, 2008 A massive expansion in the Government's DNA database has brought fewer than a thousand criminals to justice, it was revealed last night. For every 800 DNA samples being added by the police - including those taken from innocent people - only one crime is being solved.The revelation undermines Labour's case for the expansion of the controversial database, which contains the details of ...
Why Gordon Brown should halt ID cardsFriday, May 2nd, 2008Geraint Bevan | Government departments cannot be trusted to keep citizens' personal data secure. It is not only in Italy that tax records are not as confidential as people might have expected.
Treasury minister Jane Kennedy has admitted that last year, 192 staff at HM Revenue & Customs were disciplined for inappropriate access to personal or sensitive data. This brings to 600 the ...
Scholar Says There’s No Freedom of Speech in the U.S.Thursday, May 1st, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO - Sing Tao Daily | More than 3,000 Chinese Americans gathered Saturday in front of CNN’s San Francisco bureau to protest Jack Cafferty’s April 9 comments calling Chinese “basically the same bunch of goons and thugs they’ve been for the last 50 years," reports the Sing Tao Daily.
The protest garnered heavy coverage from the Chinese-language media but “hasn’t been ...
Zimbabwe: Army behind new wave of human rights abusesWednesday, April 30th, 2008 The Zimbabwean army is responsible for a new wave of rights violations throughout Zimbabwe, Human Rights Watch said today. Military forces are providing arms and trucks to so-called ‘war veterans’ who have been implicated in numerous acts of torture and other violence against opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) members and supporters.‘The army and its allies – ‘war-veterans’ and supporters of the ...
Labour revolt over ID cardsWednesday, April 30th, 2008 By Tom Shepherd | Campaigners fighting the Government's plans for ID cards are claiming a victory after four Labour candidates seeking election to Oxford City Council on Thursday opposed the scheme.
And today, city councillor and Lord Mayor John Tanner, who is seeking re-election in his Littlemore seat, told Oxford campaign group NO2ID he also did not support the Government's proposals.
NO2ID ...
Man freed by DNA testing after 27 years in prisonWednesday, April 30th, 2008 AP | A Dallas man who spent more than 27 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit was freed Tuesday, after being incarcerated longer than any other wrongfully convicted U.S. inmate cleared by DNA testing.
James Lee Woodard stepped out of the courtroom and raised his arms to a throng of photographers. Supporters and other people gathered outside the court erupted ...
National “DNA warehouse” bill passesWednesday, April 30th, 2008 AAPS | Passing the House of Representatives on a voice vote, S. 1858 has been sent to President Bush for signature. The Newborn Genetic Screening bill was passed by the Senate last December. The bill violates the U.S. Constitution and the Nuremberg Code, writes Twila Brase, president of the Citizen’s Council on Health Care (CCHC). “The ...
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