• 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...

   

• 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,...

   

• 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...

   

• 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,...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• Surveillance Society

  Chris Grayling, the Shadow Home Secretary, writes: Good Government is about achieving a sensible balance. We need to protect...

   

• 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...

   

• Police threatened G20 activists with Tasers

  By Justin Davenport, Martin Bentham and Kiran Randhawa | SCOTLAND Yard today admitted that Territorial Support Group officers...

   

• 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...

   

• 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,...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• 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...

   

• UK torture collusion ‘widespread’

  British involvement in the mistreatment of terrorism suspects abroad is wider than previously reported, a human rights group...