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UK-News« Previous EntriesSpin Doctor Behind Davis’ Campaign Promotes ID CardsThursday, July 10th, 2008By Andy Rowell and Michael Gillard | A spin doctor behind David Davis and his much-vaunted “freedom” campaign against creeping state surveillance is an influential figure in the worldwide promotion of identity cards. Kevin Bell is vice-president of Fleishman-Hillard, a global public relations firm representing security companies that have introduced ID cards in the United States and Spain. Opposition to the Government’s move to introduce a British ID card is a ... tagged ID-Cards and UK-NewsChief constable defends ‘trivial’ use of CCTVWednesday, July 9th, 2008By Robin Turner | USING CCTV cameras to spy on dog owners who fail to clear up their pets’ mess is perfectly acceptable, Wales’ most controversial police chief claims. In his blog, the outspoken North Wales Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom dismissed the debate on alleged misuse of CCTV as “a bizarre hue and cry”. And he maintained a tidy environment had a much bigger impact on most people’s lives than the ... tagged Big-Brother and UK-NewsCharities ’should be subject to human rights’Wednesday, July 9th, 2008guardian.co.uk | Human rights and freedom of information legislation should be extended to cover charities and social enterprises that deliver public services, such as care homes, a report said today. The government already contracts out a range of services – including employment training and social care – to the voluntary sector and is keen to encourage more third sector service delivery. Today's report ... tagged UK-NewsBlair Advisers Oppose Brown’s Terrorism Plan in House of LordsWednesday, July 9th, 2008By Kitty Donaldson | Two of Tony Blair's former ministers and his top domestic security official said they will vote against anti-terrorism laws proposed by Prime Minister Gordon Brown in the upper chamber of Parliament. Former Justice Secretary Charles Falconer and former Attorney General Peter Goldsmith joined Eliza Manningham-Buller, a former head of the domestic spy agency MI5 in saying they won't support plans to ... tagged Terrorism, Tony-Blair and UK-NewsEx-MI5 chief attacks 42-day planWednesday, July 9th, 2008Baroness Manningham-Buller tells the Lords why she is against the plans (video) The former head of MI5 has dismissed government plans to extend the time terror suspects can be held to 42 days as not "workable". Baroness Manningham-Buller, who stepped down from the role last year, told peers she disagreed on a "practical basis as well as a principled one". But the government said terror attacks were a "clear and present ... tagged UK-NewsI assume that everything I do is probed and examined by omnipotent corporationsMonday, July 7th, 2008The Guardian | I've got the opening scene of a dystopian thriller all worked out. It's a hot summer night in a typical suburban flat. A young woman (let's call her Alison) stands over the body of her boyfriend, who she's just killed in a fit of madness. A crime of passion. She didn't mean to do it, but gah - now look at the ... tagged UK-News‘Big Brother’ government costs us £20billionMonday, July 7th, 2008By Andrew Porter | The cost of Britain’s "surveillance society" measures is now running at £20 billion, a new report reveals today. The amount is equivalent to £800 per household and includes £19 billion for the planned ID card system and £500 million for CCTV cameras. The report by the TaxPayers’ Alliance was highlighted by David Davis, the former shadow home secretary, who stands in a by-election this week ... tagged Big-Brother and UK-NewsCCTV row breaks out in crime-free villageMonday, July 7th, 2008Daily Record | VILLAGERS are up in arms after CCTV was installed in an area where crime is almost unknown. Nearly all of them have signed a petition to have the spy cameras removed. Highland Council put the £1200 system on the village pier at Elgol on Skye along with prominent warning notices. That followed arguments among local boat owners about berthing rights. But residents say the camera system invades their privacy ... tagged Big-Brother and UK-NewsUK lawmakers to launch new rendition probeMonday, July 7th, 2008By DAVID STRINGER | Lawmakers pledged Sunday to study the movements of planes and ships traveling to the remote British outpost Diego Garcia amid persistent suspicion it is used by U.S. authorities to detain or transfer terrorism suspects. Parliament's Foreign Affairs Select Committee said it plans a thorough investigation of the use of the Indian Ocean island, which hosts a U.S. military base. Britain leased Diego Garcia, ... tagged UK-NewsFive homes raided under Terror ActThursday, July 3rd, 2008By Katie Dawson and Danielle Dwyer | Five houses were raided by police today as part of an inquiry into a gang suspected of promoting extremist views and radicalising vulnerable people. The properties were all in Stoke-on-Trent, including three in Cobridge, one in the High Lane area of Burslem and one in Tunstall, Staffordshire Police said. A spokesman said the raids were part of an "ongoing investigation into the activities ... tagged UK-NewsTop airline bosses launch assault on airport ID card planWednesday, July 2nd, 2008By John Lettice | The bosses of the UK's major airlines have attacked plans to force airport workers to enrol in the national ID card scheme, claiming that "the UK aviation industry is being used for political purposes on a project which has questionable public support."* If anything the move, they say, could reduce security by adding a "false sense of security to our ... tagged ID-Cards and UK-NewsUK government fined for violation of right to privacyWednesday, July 2nd, 2008THE EUROPEAN Court of Human Rights has ordered the British government to pay €7,500 in costs and expenses to the UK human rights organisation Liberty for violating its right to privacy by intercepting its telecommunications. Liberty took the case along with the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) and British-Irish Rights Watch over the interception of telephone, fax, e-mail and data between these organisations over a seven-year period, from 1991 to ... tagged UK-NewsOne million lose out in NHS dental reformsWednesday, July 2nd, 2008By Rebecca Smith | Instead of improving access to NHS dentistry the reforms have made it worse, the report by the House of Commons Health Select Committee found. The number of dentists working in the health service has fallen, the number of NHS treatments carried out has dropped and in many areas patients are still experiencing severe difficulties in finding a dentist to treat them. Worryingly, complex treatments carried out ... tagged Health-News and UK-NewsID scheme: the truths, half-truths and deceptionsTuesday, July 1st, 2008By Geraint Bevan | THE organisation NO2ID will not be represented officially inside the Home Office's secretive ID consultation at the Barcelo Carlton Hotel in Edinburgh today. Despite repeated requests, officials have decided that my fellow campaigners and I are not "stakeholders" in the delivery of the glorious post-ID future. Shame. To those people who have been invited to praise the ID scheme to high heaven and develop strategies for coercion, ... tagged ID-Cards and UK-NewsNine held in ID card demoTuesday, July 1st, 2008NINE protesters were arrested in Edinburgh yesterday following a demonstration at government plans to introduce ID cards. The arrests, all in connection with breach of the peace offences, were made at the Barcelo Carlton Hotel. The North Bridge hotel was the venue for a discussion on the scheme between Meg Hillier, the Home Office minister for identity, and business and local-authority representatives. All those arrested were members of NO2ID, an anti-ID ... tagged ID-Cards and UK-News« Previous Entries |
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