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Statewatch News Online, 29 April 2019 (10/19)
29 April 2019 — Statewatch Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2019/apr/email-29-april.pdf Please to support our work STATEWATCH NEWS 1. EU: Police press ahead with efforts to automate cross-border information-sharing 2. EU: National security and fundamental rights: problems with definitions and the rule of law 3. SPAIN: Ethnic profiling in Catalonia: for every police identity check on a Continue reading
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The case against me will collapse into nothing: Ola Bini
In a note given to his parents who visited him at El Inca prison, Ecuador, software developer and activist Ola Bini said there was no substance to his case. He also condemned the war on knowledge being waged by the leaders of the world Continue reading
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EU: ‘Fingerprinting Regulation’ approved now we need your help to monitor its implementation
On 4 April the European Parliament voted in favour of a Regulation that introduces a requirement for the mandatory fingerprinting of all national identity card holders in the EU – but this is not the end of the story, because now the measures will be implemented by national governments. We need your support to continue… Continue reading
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Open Rights Group Newsletter 3 April 2019
3 April 2019 — Open Rights Group Open Rights Group has announced ORGCon is back on 13 July 2019 with Edward Snowden as our keynote speaker! From the use of data in the democratic process to the impact of algorithms on free expression, we’ll be covering all things digital at our London conference. Early bird tickets are Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 18 March 2019 (07/19)
18 March 2019 — Statewatch.org Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2019/mar/email-18-mar.pdf Please to support our work STATEWATCH NEWS 1. EU: Open letter to MEPs: oppose mandatory fingerprinting for national identity cards 2. EU: Security Union: new measures introduce biometric identity cards and a new database 3. ECHR: Three judgments: detention of and lack of care for unaccompanied Continue reading
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Mark Zuckerberg’s “Privacy Manifesto”: A brief for intensifying Internet and social media censorship By Kevin Reed
On March 6, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a statement entitled “A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking” on the Notes tab of his personal page. Widely described as a “manifesto,” the document is a brief for ending the mass public exchange of ideas on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, as… Continue reading
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UK mass surveillance challenge will go to Europe’s highest human rights court
In September 2018 the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that the UK’s mass interception programmes breached the European Convention on Human Rights. The landmark judgment in September marked the Court’s first ruling on UK mass surveillance programmes revealed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Continue reading
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Police fine man £90 after he covers his head to avoid facial recognition technology
The police have fined a man £90 after he covered his head with his jumper to avoid a police trial of facial recognition technology (FRT). Other people were stopped by police during the trial for trying to hide their faces to avoid the cameras. Continue reading
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GDPR and Big Tech: The Cookie Monster Versus Joe Public by Julian Vigo
Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation which was implemented last summer has far-reaching privacy rules. Commonly referred as the , this is now the standard which has forced most tech companies to rethink not only data collection practices but also how data is collected or they risk high fines. Where the US lacks a similar regulation… Continue reading
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Facebook’s censor Nick Clegg outlines plans for European elections By Robert Stevens
Just two months after joining Facebook as its vice-president of Global Affairs and Communications, Nick Clegg gave his first main speech this week outlining sweeping censorship measures to be imposed during the European elections. These are to be carried out in the name of combatting “disinformation” and “fake news.” Continue reading
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A message from Big Brother Watch
24 January 2019 — True Publica Here is a quick look back at the highlights of 2018, as we prepare for the big challenges to come in 2019. Continue reading
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NHS: Hackers paradise as gov’t centralised health database announced
Here is another public disaster in the making. A disaster because a new NHS patient record system won’t work after billions of desperately needed taxpayer cash is poured down the drain again. A disaster because patient records will be stolen in the same quantities as they are in the USA even if it does work.… Continue reading
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A Warning Note From BigBrotherWatch
Big Brother Watch exposes and challenges threats to our privacy, our freedoms and our civil liberties at a time of enormous technological change in the UK. Here is a seriously stark warning about the current trajectory of government policy and power being used against us all. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 12 December 2018 (18/18)
13 December 2018 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2018/dec/email-dec.pdf Please DONATE to support our work ANALYSIS 1. Statewatch Analysis: ‘More police’ is not a synonym for ‘more security’ by Andreu Merino. STATEWATCH NEWS 1. Talk by Aidan White at the launch of Statewatch’s Library & Archive 2. IRELAND: High Court strikes down Ireland’s data Continue reading
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A Public Service Internet for Europe?
The French Government announced in October that the National Assembly and Army Ministry would no longer be relying on American digital companies for Internet search. They are in future going to be using the French and German developed Quant search system which doesn’t track its users’ personal data and doesn’t therefore expose users to the… Continue reading
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A World First In Citizen Surveillance By The State
By TruePublica: Last month TruePublica reported that the British government were going full Orwellian and was now aiming to create a biometric database on top of its mass data bulk collection through surveillance systems that have been deemed illegal by the highest courts in the UK and EU. However, in Australia – a member of… Continue reading
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Is China Really More “Dystopian” Than The UK? By Andrew KORYBKO
RT reported that the UK’s so-called “National Data Analytics Solution” will see an algorithm process whichever of 30 separate data points have been recorded about a person in local and national police databases in order to predict which members of the population are most likely to commit a crime or be victimized by one, after… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 26 November 2018 (17/18)
26 November 2018 — Statewatch ANALYSES 1. Analysis: Decriminalising solidarity by promoting the regularisation of migrants by Fulvio Vassallo Paleologo (Osservatorio Solidarieta Carta di Milano 2. Viewpoint: Morocco: Wherever EU immigration policy rears its ugly head, violence and abuses follow by Yasha Maccanico Continue reading
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UK Government Goes Full Orwellian: DNA, Fingerprint, Face, Voice: Biometric Data for Every Single Citizen in the UK
We’ve been warning about this moment since the first day TruePublica went online. We said that the government would eventually take the biometric data of every single citizen living in Britain and use it for nefarious reasons. DNA, fingerprint, face, and even voice data will be included. But that’s not all. Continue reading
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Statewatch New Analyses, 5 November 2018: Biometric identity cards; Undercover policing; Criminalisation of solidarity; EU migration policies in Morocco…
New analyses: biometric identity cards; undercover policing; criminalisation of solidarity; EU migration policies in Morocco; from GAMM to “Partnerships” Continue reading
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