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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008More than 16.5 million people were placed at risk of identity theft, after their details were lost or stolen from financial services firms, Computer Weekly has learned. The figures, obtained by Computer Weekly under the Freedom of Information Act, show more than one in four UK consumers have been placed at risk by financial firms last year. The disclosure has sparked calls from opposition MPs for legislation to force financial services companies ...
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Porn protest at Westminster against new ‘thought crime’
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008Models wearing chains, stockings and gags have been led around Westminster in protest at laws to make owning "extreme pornography" illegal. From next year, possession of images such as those showing a threat to life or serious injury to a person's genitals will be banned. Demonstrators opposite Parliament described this as the government interfering with people's sex lives. Ministers argue the law is needed to cope with more use of internet images. ...
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VIDEO: Centuries of British freedoms being ‘broken’ by security state
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008Centuries of British civil liberties risk being broken by the relentless pressure from the ‘security state’, the country’s top prosecutor has warned. By Christopher Hope Outgoing Director of Public Prosecutions Sir Ken Macdonald warned that the expansion of technology by the state into everyday life could create a world future generations “can’t bear”. In his wide-ranging speech, Sir Ken appeared to condemn ...
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Television May Be Doing Your Thinking
Monday, October 20th, 2008By Lynn Berry | The world's biggest leisure activity is watching television. Not walking or reading, not playing games with our children, not engaging with others in outdoor activities. Most of us like to think that television has absolutely no effect on how we think or what we do. We believe that it is a way to relax. Many of us may be surprised to know that television is ...
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Tony Benn: What went wrong in the capitalist casino?
Friday, October 17th, 2008By Tony Benn | These words are from the 1945 Labour manifesto Let Us Face The Future which brilliantly identified the very same crisis which is now described as a “credit crunch” as if it were a mere hiccup in an otherwise wonderful neo-liberal globalised world which could be corrected with a vast subsidy from the taxpayers to put the Wall Street casino and its partners worldwide back into profit. It ...
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Lies begin to unravel in police murder of Jean Charles de Menezes
Friday, October 17th, 2008By Vicky Short and Paul Mitchell | Explosive testimony has been presented to the inquest into the police killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, suggesting that he was shot even though he was known to be unarmed. Evidence was given that the innocent Brazilian was killed despite his not being clearly identified as a suspected terrorist. In addition, officers involved have said that they were prepared to kill de Menezes even ...
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Pilots ready to seek legal action over ID cards
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008The British Airline Pilots Association union has warned it may seek a judicial review of the government's ID cards scheme to prevent pilots being forced to carry identity cards. By Natasha Lomas | As part of a phased introduction of ID cards, the government has stipulated that people working in certain 'sensitive areas' such as airports will be required to hold an identity card from mid-2009. Foreign nationals will also have ...
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Secret Papers Reveal Tony Blair Sold Out to Big Tobacco
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008Secret documents recently obtained by British reporters under the United Kingdom's Freedom of Information Act that show former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair ordered tobacco sponsorship exempted from a new law banning tobacco advertising at sporting events. Blair's action came immediately after his political party, the ...
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Fisk ’shocked’ by US failure to debate conflict in Israel
Monday, October 13th, 2008By Amol Rajan | A feisty debate between Robert Fisk and the author Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman brought The Independent Woodstock Literary Festival to a close on a high note last night. The absence of a debate on the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians in the US presidential elections was "shocking", Fisk told a packed hall at Blenheim Palace, the grand 18th-century home in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, which hosted the festival. "America ...
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Record increase in DNA database
Friday, October 10th, 2008More than 722,000 samples were added to the National DNA Database last year - a record increase for one year. The database has samples from some 4m people and is the world's largest per head of population, the National Policing Improvement Agency said. Its report concluded that DNA was proving to be most helpful in solving crimes such as burglary. In 2006-7 more than 44,000 samples from crime scenes had matched suspects' ...
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Spooks in the classroom
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008The government's plan for teachers to monitor their pupils for signs of extremism stifles debate and encourages secrecy Francis Gilbert | Of all the roles I thought I might play as a classroom teacher, it never occurred to me that I might be called upon to be a spook. Social worker, surrogate parent, cleaner, technician, crowd controller, salesman for the damaged goods of the national ...
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Government spies could scan every call, text and email
Monday, October 6th, 2008Ministers are considering a £12 billion plan to monitor the e-mail, telephone and internet browsing records of every person in Britain. By Nick Allen | The huge eavesdropping programme would involve the creation of a mammoth central computer database to store hundreds of billions of individual pieces of communications traffic. Supporters say it would become one of the security services' most comprehensive tools in the fight against terrorism but critics described ...
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42-day detention dropped as unworkable
Monday, October 6th, 2008Sean O’Neill | Gordon Brown is preparing for a humiliating climbdown over his proposal to hold terrorist suspects for 42 days after being told that it will be defeated in the House of Lords. Ministers admit privately that there is not “a cat in Hell’s chance” of the legislation, which returns to the Lords this week, being passed into law. The Government has decided against using the Parliament Act to ...
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Britain: Forty percent of children live in poverty
Friday, October 3rd, 2008By Peter Reydt | More than 40 percent of children in the United Kingdom are living in poverty, according to the latest research. That is some 5.5 million children. Whilst official measures of child poverty are based on a national survey of family income, the new research published by the Campaign to End Child Poverty was compiled using tax credit data. This gives the percentage of children on low incomes ...
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The death of the ‘dream’ of global free-market capitalism
Friday, October 3rd, 2008IWCA | New Labour and the Tories are muttering that the left musn’t be allowed to exploit the current economic crisis in order to make a comeback. They have nothing to worry about: the systematic, publicly funded government intervention we’ve seen the world over that has been necessary to rescue global capitalism from collapse demolishes once and for all the myth that private ...
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