• FBI terrorist watch list hits 1 million entries

  By Patrick Martin | The FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center acknowledged this week that there are more than 1 million...

   

• School begins using biometric facial recognition

  By Kim Thomas | “Ainsley. Babcock. Bland. Carthorse. Dint. Ellsworth-Beast Major. Ellsworth-Beast Minor.” For...

   

• BUSH’S LAWYERS GAVE GREEN LIGHT TO ILLEGAL SPYNG

  By Michael Isikoff  | In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the Justice Department secretly gave the green light for the...

   

• Facebook backtracks on TOS; Privacy changes still coming later

  By Larry Dignan  Facebook has reverted to its old terms of service after a backlash from users. Over the weekend a ruckus...

   

• Scottish Ministers ‘completely opposed’ to ID cards

  

  Feb 15, 2009 16:06

  The Scottish Government today denounced Westminster plans for identity cards as “unacceptable”. In a strongly-worded...

   

• NSA’s meta-data email surveillance program exposed

  WMR has learned details of one of the most important components of the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping...

   

• Dozens of secret Bush surveillance, executive power memos found; Could be made public

  

  Feb 4, 2009 16:07

  By John Byrne Details about more than three dozen secret memoranda written by Bush Administration officials now sit atop...

   

• President Obama — It’s time to stop illegal spying on all Americans

  Dear President Obama; I know you have a full plate right now but there’s something I need to talk to you about. Does...

   

• Reading councillors do not support ID cards

  Reading borough councillors could not be less enthusiastic about the Government’s proposed ID card scheme if they tried. They...

   

• British government to spread ID cards message to school children

    The Home Secretary will be spreading the message on identity cards among schoolchildren today.   Jacqui Smith is meeting...

   

• ACLU Demands Eavesdropping, Torture Memos From White House

  By David KravetsThe American Civil Liberties Union is hoping a kinder, gentler Obama administration will disclose secret...

   

• Government tries to convince the public that their data is safe

  Overseer wanted for controversial £4.7 billion UK national identity cards scheme By creating a watchdog post, the Home Office...

   

• Detainee captured at 14 to be freed

  A US judge has ordered the military to release a Guantanamo Bay detainee who was arrested in Pakistan when he was 14. Mohamed...

   

• Don’t sleepwalk into Big Brother surveillance, schools warned

  By STEPHEN NAYSMITH | Schools which employ biometric technologies such as fingerprint patterning to manage libraries or...

   

• Private firm may track all email and calls

  By Alan Travis and Richard Norton-Taylor | The private sector will be asked to manage and run a communications database...

   

• Amnesty: Closing Guantanamo Isn’t Enough

  Amnesty International, in a just-released proposal, wants to go further than just closing the facility. By Spencer Ackerman The...

   

• UK government bans photography

  libertyandsolidarity.org  In a letter to the National Union of Journalists, the Minister for security and counter-terrorism,...

   

• Public support for ID cards dips to 55 per cent

  By Lewis Page | The latest Home Office poll on public attitudes to the planned National ID card indicates that support for...

   

• Ex-MI5 chief ‘astonished’ at how many organisations use anti-terror law

  By Andrew Sparrow The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) was passed in 2000 to regulate the way that public bodies...

   

• Google Flu Trends tool raises privacy concerns

  Privacy groups want Google to ensure that aggregate search data about flu outbreaks cannot be used to re-identify the people...

   

• Spying on pacifists, environmentalists and nuns

  By Bob Drogin Reporting from Takoma Park, Md. — To friends in the protest movement, Lucy was an eager 20-something...

   

• Nearly half of all criminals escape the DNA database say Lib Dems

  Ahead of today’s European Court of Human Rights ruling on whether two innocent men should be removed from the DNA database,...

   

• Feds to Judge: Don’t ‘Second Guess’ Bush Domestic Spy Program

  By David Kravets The Bush administration on Tuesday urged a federal judge to dismiss lawsuits against the nation’s...

   

• ID cards are not voluntary

  When the Government introduced its ID card legislation several years ago, it made one thing clear. Even though it would be...

   

• 64,000 DNA samples from our children – This needs to be stopped

  Western Mail | THE debate over privacy and the rights of the individual against those of society at large has been given...