Spies-R-Us
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NO2ID Supporters’ Newsletter No. 153 – 15th July 2010: Unfinished Business
+ UNFINISHED BUSINESS + The Identity Documents Bill – the legislation to repeal the Identity Cards Act 2006 – will shortly move to ‘Report and Third Reading’ in the House of Commons. For those of you who haven’t followed the progress of the various Bills that NO2ID has fought over the past 6 years, this… Continue reading
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NO2ID Supporters’ Newsletter No. 152 – 1st July 2010
NO2ID’s goal was never *just* to stop the ID card – it was, and is, to stop the creation of the database behind it – and any equivalent national registers used to manage the population, what we named the database state. The abolition of ID cards may be a significant victory, but the war is… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, No 2: 21 June 2010
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ Statewatch European Documentation Centre (SEMDOC): www.statewatch.org/semdoc/ Sitemap: www.statewatch.org/sitemap.htm 1. LIBYA-UNHCR: Migreurop statement: the bid is rising, migrants pay the price 2. EU-TRAFFICKING: Council: Latest draft: preventing and combating trafficking in human beings 3. UK: Stop and search used illegally against thousands 4. EU: UK monitors suspected radicals as part of European surveillance… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 27 May 2010: Surveillance of “violent radicalisation” to embrace suspects from across the political spectrum
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ Statewatch European Documentation Centre (SEMDOC): www.statewatch.org/semdoc/ Sitemap: www.statewatch.org/sitemap.htm 1. Statewatch Analysis: Surveillance of “violent radicalisation” to embrace suspects from across the politcal spectrum 2. EU: FOOTBALL: Evaluation report 3. EU: European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS): Revision of FRONTEX’s mandate 4. EU: Top EU leaders mark the International Day Against Homophobia 5. EU:… Continue reading
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NO2ID Supporters’ Newsletter No. 149 – 20th May 2010: STOP THE UPLOAD NOW
+ STOP THE UPLOAD NOW + Connecting for Health (CfH) continues to push forward its plan to nationalise and centralise all medical records in England [1], despite a misleading announcement from the Department of Health that uploads to the Summary Care Record (SCR) are ‘on hold’. In just the last few days, the medical press… Continue reading
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NO2ID Supporters’ Newsletter No. 148 – 5th May 2010: Election Special
*Contacting us:* Call or email the office – 020-7793-4005 or (office@no2id.net). + ELECTION SPECIAL + We’re sending the newsletter early this week, so that you have it in time for the election. NO2ID remains rigorously non-partisan: our battle is not with one party or another, but rather against the database state. This principle enables us… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online – 29 April 2010: UK: Home Office: Police powers and procedures 2008/9 report. Including stop and search figures
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ Statewatch European Documentation Centre (SEMDOC): www.statewatch.org/semdoc/ Sitemap: www.statewatch.org/sitemap.htm 1. EU: EUROPOL: TE-SAT 2010: EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2. UK: Home Office: Police powers and procedures 2008/9 report. Including stop and search figures 3. EU countries trading in tools of torture: Amnesty International and Omega Research Foundation 4. EDPS: E-waste and… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online – 29 April 2010: Statewatch Analysis: The right to protest: “Troublemakers” to be recorded on database and targeted
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ Statewatch European Documentation Centre (SEMDOC): www.statewatch.org/semdoc/ Sitemap: www.statewatch.org/sitemap.htm 1. UK: Metropolitan Police and the killing of Blair Peach in 1979: 2. ITALY: COE: Committee on Torture concern at detention regime for terrorism suspects 3. EU: Council of the European Union:Justice and Home Affairs Council 4. EU: Justice and Home Affairs Council, 23… Continue reading
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NO2ID Supporters’ Newsletter No. 147 – 22nd April 2010: UK almost tops international Google-snoop league
Two weeks from now Parliament will have changed. Whoever forms the next government, over a quarter of MPs will be new to the job. Many may not know how much the database state matters to their constituents, or how deeply it will affect them. They need to be informed and you can help. Starting now. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online – 20 April 2010 (07/10)
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ The European Commission is about to adopt its Action Plan on the Stockholm Progamme: 1. European Commission: Action Plan on the Stockholm Programme: Statewatch Analysis: A bit more freedom and justice and a lot more security by Tony Bunyan: www.statewatch.org/analyses/no-95-stockholm-action-plan.pdf “The ‘harnessing of the digital tsunami’ as advocated by the EU Future… Continue reading
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NO2ID Newsletter 14 April, 2010: Election special – promise to protect privacy
This week, POWER2010 are focussing on privacy and government abuse of our personal information. They have set up a simple tool on their website which allows you to e-mail a customiseable letter directly to each of the parliamentary candidates in your constituency Continue reading
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NO2ID Supporters’ Newsletter No. 146 – 8th April 2010: SHARPEN YOUR PENS!
Despite recruiting just a few thousand guinea-pigs so far, the Home Office still intends that *everyone* will be fingerprinted and indexed on a central database – whether or not that involves an ID card. The start date has slipped back from 2008 to 2012, but the plan is still for you to pass control of… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online – 31 March 2010 (06/10)
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ Statewatch European Documentation Centre (SEMDOC): www.statewatch.org/semdoc/ Sitemap: www.statewatch.org/sitemap.htm 1. EP: Surveillance of the sea external borders with the involvement of Frontex 2. MALTA: Grupp29: Stop the criminalisation of art Maltese authors and artists 3. EU: Council: rights to interpretation and to translation in criminal proceedings 4. EU-ISRAEL: Should the EU subsidise Israeli… Continue reading
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NO2ID Supporters’ Newsletter No. 145 – 25th March 2010: Mandating ID
*Contacting us:* Call or email the office – 020-7793-4005 or (office@no2id.net). + MANDATING ID + While the Minister for Identity tries conjuring up possible uses for the ID card – more fantasy than reality, but telling nonetheless [1] – the Home Office has continued to use every trick in the book to manufacture ‘demand’. Its… Continue reading
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NO2ID Supporters’ Newsletter No. 144 – 11th March 2010: Fight for health records heats up
UK ranked 6 in global list of repressive regimes Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 3 March 2010 (04/10)
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ Statewatch European Documentation Centre (SEMDOC): www.statewatch.org/semdoc/ Sitemap: www.statewatch.org/sitemap.htm 1. DUTCH PRISON FOR BELGIANS: Under the European Arrest Warrant 2. EU: “Fishing expeditions” for fingerprints leads to limits being imposed 3. EU Security Research: “NeoConOpticon” blog updated 4. UK: Joint Human Rights Committee: Annual Renewal of Control Orders 5. France/Algeria: Joint maritime surveillance… Continue reading
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NO2ID Supporters’ Newsletter No. 143 – 25th February 2010: Dangers of data retention
The Data Retention (EC Directive) Regulations 2009 were still passed, requiring internet service providers (ISPs) and telecoms providers to retain communications data on all fixed and mobile phone, e-mail and internet usage for 12 months. Because this is linked to the details of the person subscribed to the service, the retained data, wherever it is… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online – 28 January 2010
28 January 2010 — Statewatch.org/ Support Statewatch’s work: Join Friends of Statewatch: www.statewatch.org/fosw.html 1. EU: The Schengen Information System (SIS) has “over half a million terminals” 2. EU: Draft Council Decision the surveillance of the sea external borders 3. EU: Readmission Agreements: Overview 4. UK: Supreme Court quashes law: UN Security Council Resolutions and the… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online – 15 January 2010
15 January 2010 — Statewatch.org/ Support Statewatch’s work: Join Friends of Statewatch: www.statewatch.org/fosw.html 1. EU: European Security Research and Innovation Forum: ESRIF Final Report 2. Italy: After the racist violence in Italy: a Migreurop mission visits the area 3. UK: House of Commons Justice Committee: Cutting crime: the case for justice reinvestment 4. EU: Background… Continue reading
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