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Statewatch 21 December 2010 – Survey of users
The Statewatch website gets over 600,000 ‘hits’ per month. More than 9,000 people have joined the Statewatch e-mail list. We intend to update and improve our website and email alerting service and are seeking feedback from users to help us with this process. Continue reading
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Free access to two unique resources on civil liberties in Europe
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Statewatch News Online, 26 October 2010 (19/10)
Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org EU: European Commission: Data protection proposals EU-GREECE: EU sends border guards to Greece UK: New rights to protect Britons abroad European Commission: Report on third country nationals and trafficking European Parliament: Strengthening democratic scrutiny over EU external affairs EU: Rightwing parties plan opposition to EU centralisation and immigration USA: Electronic Continue reading
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NO2ID Supporters’ Newsletter No. 159 – 11th October 2010
+ DOUBLE BILL + As the rest of the Newsletter shows, the database state is still far from dead. But the fight against it needs a new strategy to deal with the new situation. We have been taking advantage of the honeymoon period of the coalition to try and formulate the way forward, and are Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 6 October 2010 (18/10): France-Roma controversy
Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org EU: Council: France-Roma controversy – proposing the targeting of “mobile (itinerant) criminal groups”: “itinerant”=travellers=Roma EU-LIBYA: EU signs up to ‘unclear’ migration pact with Libya EU-PNR: Mandates: Council of the European Union EU: Council of the European Union: “State of play”: exploitation of children EU-USA: SWIFT-TFTP agreement: Question to European Commission Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online – 1 October 2010 (17/10)
Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org EU: Parliaments to have no say over the “harmonisation” of national ID cards EU: Schengen Information System: SIS II to hold 100 million records EU-FRONTEX: AI and ECRE: Briefing on Commission proposal USA: Government Accountability Office: Fusion centres UK: European Commission: Refer UK to Court over data protection EU: “State Continue reading
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NO2ID Supporters’ Newsletter No. 158 – 23rd September 2010: Identity Documents Bill passes 3rd Reading
Challenging the authoritarian thinking behind the ID scheme was always going to be much tougher than defeating ID cards. Repealing the Identity Cards Act is essential, but has not killed the database state. We are still seeing ‘new’ bureaucratic project that simply re-package the same mass-surveillance concepts. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 20 September 2010 (16/10): European Parlianment Resolution passed by 337 votes to 245 calling on France to ‘immediately suspend all expulsions of Roma’, saying that they ‘amounted to discrimination’
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org In 2010 an average of 432,649 pdf documents have been downloaded each month (January-August) from the Statewatch website: Researchers, NGOs, activist groups, lawyers, academics, students (completed dissertations), journalists – if you would like to get wider distribution for your work (articles, features, reports, studies) on civil liberties and justice and Continue reading
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NO2ID Supporters’ Newsletter No. 157 – 9th September 2010
Next week the Identity Documents Bill, the legislation that is said to scrap ID cards, begins its last parliamentary lap with its final stages in the House of Commons on 15th September. So by the end of the month we should see most of the Identity Cards Act repealed. Continue reading
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NO2ID Supporters’ Newsletter No. 156 – 26th August 2010: Party Games
26 August, 2010 — NO2ID + PARTY GAMES + As we move into party conference season, it is time for NO2ID to see who in politics has really grasped our message – and to look forward. Have the Coalition’s fine words about rolling back the database state been fulfilled as action? Will the new Labour Continue reading
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NO2ID Supporters’ Newsletter No. 155 – 12th August 2010: HAS THE COALITION ADOPTED THE DATABASE STATE?
It may not have moved as certainly or as far as we would like on mass surveillance projects, but it has shown willing, quickly cutting back the ID scheme and cancelling ContactPoint. But this week’s pre-announcement of the idea of using credit-reference agencies to detect benefit fraud is a sign that the ideas of “Transformational… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 13 August 2010: EU: European Investigation Order (EIO): JUSTICE: Briefing on the European Investigation Order
13 August, 2010 — www.statewatch.org/ Statewatch European Documentation Centre (SEMDOC): www.statewatch.org/semdoc/ Sitemap: www.statewatch.org/sitemap.htm 1. EU: European Investigation Order (EIO) 2. UK: Torture Guidelines 3. UK: Annual report: Intelligence Services Commissioner, 2009 4. POLAND-GERMANY: Suspected Israeli spy subject to European Arrest Warrant 5. UK: RESPONSE TO HUMAN RIGHTS JUDGMENTS 6. EU: EURODAC: Annual report 2009 7. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 26 July 2010 (13/10)
26 July, 2010 — Statewatch Statewatch European Documentation Centre (SEMDOC): www.statewatch.org/semdoc/ Sitemap: www.statewatch.org/sitemap.htm 1. EU: FRONTEX-EU’s External Borders Agency: Management Board: Analysis and Assessment 2009 2. EU: European Commission: Overview of information management 3. EU: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA): Letter from Article 29 Working Party on data protection 4. UK: G20-IAN TOMLINSON’S DEATH 5. EU: Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 19 July 2010: Council of Europe anti-torture Committee report
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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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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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