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Houses of Parliament Protestors Get Stuck
Three woman and one man have glued themselves to a statue at the Houses of Parliament. A message posted on the Internet from...
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UK Government Drops Big Brother ‘Database’ But Remains Big Brother
The UK government wants communications companies to keep records of our phone, text messages, e-mail and Internet traffic,...
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Tory Leader wants to give our medical records to Google
During the weekend, Tory Leader, David Cameron placed further scrutiny under the Labour Governments ”Electronic Patient...
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WAR CRIMES CONFERENCE SHORT REPORT
Tim Symonds | The Conference took place on 19-21 February 2009 at the Institute Of Advanced Legal Studies, London University,...
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Police spy on activist groups
POLICE are using a network of hundreds of paid informants to feed them information about protest groups, according to secret...
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ICO can no longer be seen to be independent of Whitehall
7 civil servants / Whitehall moles on secondment to the Information Commissioners Office The UK FOIA blog The work of the...
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Muslims in fear of police terror
Muslim leaders in Lancashire said on Thursday that the arrest, detention and subsequent release without charge of 12 people...
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Street View nod prompts call for privacy watchdog reform
By Chris Williams | Frustrated by years of alleged intransigence in dealing with complaints about privacy-infringing new...
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Paying billions for our database state
It is cost rather than privacy concerns that will save us from Labour’s megalomaniac surveillance schemes – a point...
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North West anti-fascist hopes rest with Greens
TURNOUT is a key element of the Euro election battle against the BNP in the North West and Hope Not Hate should be applauded...
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Police watchdog fails to block new demo video
By Jack Lefley | The police watchdog has failed in an attempt to stop the broadcast of new footage of the moments leading...
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Government issue warning to Town Hall CCTV
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has vowed to stop councils using CCTV to spy on staff, Yourmaidstone reports. A survey has revealed...
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MPs to probe ISP snooping
By Chris Williams | MPs have today launched an investigation into the use of snooping technology by ISPs which allows them...
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Owning a camera doesn’t make you a criminal
When George Bush pronounced the war on terrorism as the “war on tourism”, we thought it was because he was an...
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School bus tracked by satellite
Parents in North Wales will be able to use satellite tracking to check their children are on the school bus, as part of a...
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EC takes action against the UK over its handling of personal data protection
The European Commission (EC) last week launched an infringement proceeding against the UK over e-privacy and personal data...
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Surveillance Society
Chris Grayling, the Shadow Home Secretary, writes: Good Government is about achieving a sensible balance. We need to protect...
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Fronting up to fascism
Hope Not Hate, the anti-racist campaign group, faces perhaps its toughest challenge to date in its bid to prevent the fascist...
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Police threatened G20 activists with Tasers
By Justin Davenport, Martin Bentham and Kiran Randhawa | SCOTLAND Yard today admitted that Territorial Support Group officers...
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Britain Sleep Walks Into a Police State as Political Dissent is Criminalised
Julie Hyland writes: “From foul deeds endless tragedy arises,” the World Socialist Web Site wrote, commenting on the...
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RIPA review proves snoopers’ charter got out of hand
Commenting on Government review into the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary,...
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Labour is stifling the right to protest
The news that government officials have been passing intelligence on climate change activists to a power company serves...
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Police ‘ignored warnings’ that tactics will kill
Authorities were warned three months before the death of Ian Tomlinson that someone would be killed if a wave of savage...
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Government apologises for torture cover-up
THE government has apologised to two High Court judges after discovering that an MI5 officer misled them over the case of...
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UK torture collusion ‘widespread’
British involvement in the mistreatment of terrorism suspects abroad is wider than previously reported, a human rights group...




