privacy
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Don’t Spy on Us!
9 March 2016 — Liberty Despite criticism across the board from campaigners, lawyers, tech experts and three parliamentary committees, the Government continues to rush the massively flawed Investigatory Powers Bill through Parliament. If passed, the Bill would mean that the UK has the most extreme surveillance laws of any democracy in the world, putting us on… Continue reading
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FOI: Stop the G4S/Virgin Takeover of the NHS!
Yesterday, the government’s own advisors backed what 38 Degrees members have been asking for in our hundreds of thousands – that we have a right to know what private companies who run services like in our NHS are up to. But here’s the snag. The advice is buried on page 51 of a new report… Continue reading
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Draft Investigatory Powers Bill: We need to kill it!
A couple of weeks ago we called for the Government to ‘pause, take stock and redraft’ their new surveillance plans following the mauling the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill received at the hands of campaigners, security experts, the tech industry and three cross-party parliamentary committees. We have now heard that the Government plans to publish the… Continue reading
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Care.data: They never give up
The government is trying to push through the plan that would allow private companies to access our personal medical data and increase privatisation of the NHS. But together, we could stop it. Continue reading
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Curb the surveillance state! Email your MP!
On Wednesday, Home Secretary Theresa May is expected to introduce new ‘snooping’ laws. But she knows she’ll only get them through if enough MPs support them. A growing number of MPs from all political parties are starting to speak out against her plans. If enough of us email our MPs in the next 24 hours,… Continue reading
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The NHS sells you and your soul
This week saw the UK’s largest online pharmacy, Pharmacy2U, fined £130,000 for concealing its sale of names and addresses of NHS patients to quacks and charlatans. Quite literally – the companies who bought patients details were selling “alternative” treatments and lottery scams. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 5 August 2015 (20/15)
5 August 2015 — Statewatch • e-mail: office@statewatch.org You can access as a pdf file at: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2015/aug/e-mail-med-4-8-15.pdf Statewatch coverage of the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean and its effect inside the EU New key documents and Commentaries Continue reading
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Statewatch: New Analysis & Briefing, 30 July 2015 (17/15): EU-US cooperation & Smart Borders
The USA is a major, unseen, influence on EU justice and home affairs policies and practices and uses the meetings to lobby for direct access to EU and Member State databases. Continue reading
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medConfidential Bulletin, 17 July 2015: care.data – Are you their guinea-pig?
medConfidential has been asking since last October for this information to be published, so that people can know if they and their family are to be guinea-pigs for ‘care.data round 3’. Some patients may also have questions as to why they have been volunteered in this way – so might some GPs – and we… Continue reading
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care.data equals chaos.data
Absent explicit instruction from the Secretary of State, it is now clear that NHS England is just going to keep on making the chaos worse. 16 months after it was “paused”, care.data is resurfacing in a way that gives some insight into the shambolic mess it is still in. Continue reading
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NHS: care.data’s big post-election question
NHS England kept the opt-out problem secret for over a year – even while it was sending out the junk-mail leaflets last January / February, saying the choice existed. Then it hid the problem for another 10 months, before passing the buck to HSCIC last November without even telling them the size of the problem.… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 29 May 2015 (13/15): News: Med crisis and EU response
29 May 2015 — Statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org Statewatch coverage of the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean New Key Documents 1. European External Action Service (EEAS): Military Advice: RESTRICTED doc no: 8802-15 2. Political and Security Committee: PMG Recommendations on the draft Crisis Management 3.Draft Crisis Management Concept for a possible CSDP operation to disrupt human smuggling networks in… Continue reading
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Marketing2U – has your health information been sold to direct marketers?
For years, we’ve had credible reports of highly accurate marketing that could only be based on health records. Now reports in the media have revealed “a nice little trade” in your health records – and that’s the Information Commissioner’s description, not ours. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 28 November 2014 (16/14): UK: NEW POWER TO GATHER IP ADDRESSES IS NOT LIMITED TO TERRORISM, IT WILL COVER ALL CRIME
28 November 2014 — Statewatch NEWShttp://www.statewatch.org/news/ 1. UK: NEW POWER TO GATHER IP ADDRESSES IS NOT LIMITED TO TERRORISM, IT WILL COVER ALL CRIME2. Germany, Austria and Italy launch “trilateral control” to deal with “the increasing number of migrants”3. New Frontex Director Continue reading
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Stop the government’s care.data sell-off
The government are planning to sneak through the plan that would allow private companies to buy our personal medical data. But together we could stop it. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 11 August 2014: Mass surveillance of communications in the EU: CJEU judgment and DRIPA 2014/RIPA 2000 in the UK
“The CJEU ruled that mass surveillance under the EU Data Retention Directive entails an interference with the fundamental rights of practically the entire European population and is a clear breach of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. Continue reading
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DRIP filter: Controversial data retention bill forced through parliament
British MPs are pressing ahead with implementing a controversial bill requiring phone and internet companies to retain their customer’s data for up to a year granting security services unprecedented access to it. The bill would also force non-UK companies like Yahoo and Facebook to hold information on web activities if their users are based in… Continue reading
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