privacy
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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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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 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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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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Becky Hogge: BT wants to monitor your online activities
Phorm, which dials direct into your internet service provider’s network and intercepts communications between you and the websites you visit, using information about the sorts of things you are viewing to serve you targeted ads. Continue reading
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No to the database state! Spam Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for one day!
A Facebook protest against the government’s planned £12 billion ‘super database’ of electronic communications has called on people to forward all their emails to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for one day. Continue reading
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Christopher Parsons: Britain’s Digital Surveillance: Hiding from Her Majesty’s ‘Black Boxes’
I want to address that deficiency, calling attention to the Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technologies that will presumably be responsible for examining, categorizing, and heuristically evaluating the data flowing across British ISPs’ networks. Continue reading
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THE ALTERNATIVE CONSULTATION ON EU JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS POLICY
Please take a few moments to complete the survey and have your say on EU justice and home affairs policy: Continue reading
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The State under siege or is it the people? By William Bowles
Not since the 1920s has the capitalist state been so threatened but ironically not by revolution but by its own complete lack of creditability. On every front its actions are being questioned as never before, whether its actions in far-off lands or its domestic policies. Continue reading
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Big Brother is Watching/Acting By William Bowles
Rackspace is the US-owned corporation which hosts a number of Indymedia Websites that got closed down around the planet last week including a number here in London. In all, a total 140 Websites in around 17 countries have been shut down, and although some of the UK Indymedia servers are apparently up and running once… Continue reading
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More, or rather, less on the ‘Civil Contingencies Bill’ By William Bowles
Amazing isn’t it, a bill which if passed, that along with the 2000 Terrorism Act, pretty well entrenches total state control over the citizen, barely gets a mention in the media. The BBC in its News at One programme yesterday (25/11/03) didn’t even mention it as being included in Queenie’s speech. Later, on PM News… Continue reading
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Big Brother? No, it’s Biometric Big Blunkett By William Bowles
So Blunkett has finally gotten his way and persuaded his cabinet cohorts that the good citizens of the ‘mother of democracy’ must have a ‘biometric’ ID card. The card, that by the way, loyal citizens will have to pay forty quid for the privilege of owning, will contain your photo, finger and thumbprint and for… Continue reading