http://rinf.com/alt-news Breaking News, Alternative News & Media Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:09:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Who? John Wadham, 57-year-old legal director of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). Why is he in the news? The EHRC has written a letter before action to the British National Party (BNP) over possible breaches of anti-discrimination law in its constitution and membership criteria, which appear to be restricted ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/action-threatened-against-fascist-bnp/6023/ Researchers are using Bluetooth technology to observe the meanderings of tens of thousands of festival-goers at a top European rock festival, hoping their findings will launch a new generation of tracking devices. The team from the University of Ghent in Belgium believes the research could yield new satellite navigation applications for ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/surveillance-big-brother/bluetooth-big-brother-tracks-festival-goers/6021/ The US Justice Department is again delaying the release of an internal CIA report on the agency's secret detention and interrogation program during the Bush administration. The report had been expected to be made public two weeks ago but was held back over debates about how much of it should be ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/war-terrorism/cia-torture-report-delayed-again/6017/ The Ministry of Defence has paid out, or is considering, compensation in relation to at least 104 civilian deaths allegedly caused by the British Army in Afghanistan over the last 18 months, it has been revealed. And compensation claims have been rejected in a further 113 cases in Helmand province, where ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/war-terrorism/mod-faces-afghan-civilian-death-pay-outs/6015/ Last December the European Court of Human Rights decided in S and Marper v The United Kingdom that the retention by the State of DNA profiles is a breach of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. That is because information about people arrested for, or charged with, ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/surveillance-big-brother/the-uk-dna-database-needs-proper-scrutiny/6013/ Israel sought to defend itself Thursday against the latest accusations by a major international organization that it committed war crimes against people in Gaza, claiming that the Islamist group Hamas manipulated the group responsible for the most recent report. Amnesty's report The London-based Amnesty International accused Israel forces of war crimes, including ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/israels-war-crimes-not-collateral-damage/6011/ The furore around the Chinese government’s Green Dam software has raised the issue of the way modern technology is used to monitor our daily lives. Here, we list seven of the technologies that can be used to keep track of your movements. CCTV Closed-circuit television cameras were first used in Germany in ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/big-brother-is-watching/6009/ Home secretary Alan Johnson's pledge that the government will not make ID cards compulsory is not a U-turn on policy, according to first secretary Lord Mandelson. The business minister said the government had "always made clear we want to move to a full take-up of ID cards and what Alan Johnson ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/uk-news/mandelson-says-no-u-turn-on-id-cards/6008/ Jonathan Cook looks into the role of the Israeli Medical Association in the torture of Palestinian prisoners, against the background of an international campaign by doctors to oust the Israeli head of the world’s governing body on medical ethics because of his alleged complicity in torture. Israel’s watchdog body on medical ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/doctors-colluding-in-torture/6006/ A former CIA station chief charged with raping an unconscious Algerian woman last year surrendered to federal agents outside a federal courthouse on Tuesday. Andrew Warren, 41, was fired from the CIA earlier this year, according to agency spokesman George Little. Warren's attorney, Mark David Hunter, told The Associated Press that Warren ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/war-terrorism/former-cia-officer-charged-in-algiers-rape/6004/