4 November 2013 — Statewatch
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Statewatch News Online, 28 October 2013 (18/13): full background coverage on EU-UK-USA Data Surveillance
28 October 2013 — Statewatch News Online, 28 October 2013 (18/13)
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New Statewatch Journal 23 September 2013: Informants, spies and subversion
23 September 2013 — http://www.statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org
New Statewatch Journal: Informants, spies and subversion
http://www.statewatch.org/contents/swjournal23n2.html
Statewatch News Online, 26 July 2013 (11/13): EU-USA: Data surveillance
25 July 2013 — http://www.statewatch.org/ – e-mail: office@statewatch.org
1. EP Inquiry: Letter from Martin Schulz, MEP, President of the European Parliament to the Council Presidency
2. GERMANY-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: ‘Key Partners’: The Secret Link Between Germany and the NSA
3. Extract from the Minutes of the 4 July 2013 meeting of COREPER II: EU-US High Level expert group on security and data protection
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Statewatch News Online, 26 July 2013 (10/13)
25 July 2013 — http://www.statewatch.org/ – e-mail: office@statewatch.org
1. USE OF DRONES: A new poll has found that the US policy of drone strikes remains unpopular around the world
2. EU: FREEZING AND CONFISCATION OF ASSETS
3. EU: ACCESS TO EU DOCUMENTS: Council’s public register of documents hits 2 million mark
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Top Secret: NSA Leaked files
27 June 2013 — Statewatch
Although these pdf files are available from Statewatch, I’m also making them available here.
Statewatch News Online, 27 June 2013: EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE
27 June 2013 — http://www.statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org
EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE
1. EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: For those that missed here are three three original leaks by Snowden:
2. UK: SPYING ON THE EU: Germany blasts Britain over GCHQ’s secret cable trawl
3. EU-USA-UK: DATA SURVEILLANCE: GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world’s communications
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Statewatch News Online, 7 June 2013
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1. EU: Justice and Home Affairs Council, 6-7 June 2013: Day 1: Justice: Press release
2. EU: NEW DATA PROTECTION REGULATION: European Parliament: Working documents, draft report and amendments
3. UK: ANTI-SURVEILLANCE CAMPAIGNERS TO MARK ORWELL’S ‘1984 ‘PUBLICATION
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Statewatch: Austerity, democracy and civil liberties
7 May 2013 — Statewatch
The new issue of the Statewatch Journal (volume 23 no 1) is now available to download: http://www.statewatch.org/contents/swjournal23n1.html
The Journal has been redesigned and each issue will now have a thematic focus. This issue focuses on the nexus between austerity, civil liberties and democracy.
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Statewatch News Online, 17 April 2012 (05/13)
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1. EU: Dublin III: Council of the European Union
2. EU: Agency for Fundamental Rights report: Fundamental rights at the EU’s southern sea borders
3. EU: European Commission: Proposal for a Regulation for the surveillance of the external sea borders in the context of operational cooperation
4. UK: Secret mission? UK “homeland security” firms were in India three weeks before David Cameron’s February trade mission
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Statewatch News Online, 8 March 2013 (03/13)
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1. EU: Millions of euros for new police databases in West Africa
2. EU: Justice and Home Affairs Council: 7-8 March 2013
3. EU: EUROPEAN INVESTIGATION ORDER (EIO): Nine MSs who proposed the EIO lobby the Council of the European Union for it to be quickly adopted
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Statewatch News Online, 4 February 2013: EU: Solidarity or militarisation?
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1. EU: Council of the European Union: Visa lists and Intra-Corporate Transferees
2. USA: BODY SCANNERS: Rapiscan Backscatter Contract Terminated – Units to be Removed
3. EU: Solidarity or militarisation? Proposed ‘solidarity clause’ legislation criticised for lack of clarity and “encouraging armament”
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Statewatch News Online, 15 January 2013 (01/13)
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1. EU Council of the European Union: Informal Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Council in Dublin on 17-18 January 2013
2. EU: European Investigation Order
3. EU: Commission makes €50 million available for the development of “big brother” PNR databases – before legislation has even been agreed
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Statewatch News Online, 31 December 2012 (22/12)
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1. EU: European Parliament study: Evaluating current and forthcoming proposals on JHA databases and a smart borders system at EU external borders
2. EU: Council of the European Union: Exchange of EU classified information (EUCI) with third States and international organisations
3. Council of Europe: Human Rights Commissioner: Restrictions on defenders of migrants’ rights should stop
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Statewatch News Online, 10 December 2012 (21/12)
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1. EU Council of the European Union: COSI Operational plan & Schengen borders re-introduction
2, EU: Justice and Home Affairs Council, 6-7 December 2012, Brussels: Final Press release, 6-7 December
3. EU: Institute of Race Relations: Which way forward on racial profiling?
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Statewatch News Online, 26 November 2012 (20/12)
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1. EU: Stockholm Programme: List of texts adopted 2010-2012
2. EU: Consolidated versions of the Treaty on the European Union and TFEU
3. EU: Meijers Committee: General Data Protection Regulation and personal data in judicial co-operation in criminal matters and police co-operation
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Statewatch News Online, 30 October 2012 (19/12): EU: Britain’s opt-out on EU police and crime laws raises eyebrows
29 October 2012 — Statewatch
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1. EU: Council of the European Union: HISTORICAL DOCUMENT: “Regulations for the use of force including firearms”, “Use of batons”, “Use of riot control agents” Continue reading
Statewatch News Online, 8 October 2012: You look foreign: bring your passport, it’s what the UKBA would want
8 October 2012 — Statewatch
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1. EU: Western Balkan states held back by lawlessness
2. EU: Council of the European Union: Common European Asylum System – State of play
3. EU: EUROPEAN ARREST WARRANT: FINLAND, DENMARK & SWEDEN
4. EU: Council of the European Union: Military Command and Control, JCOs and Auditors letter on Home Affairs funding
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Statewatch News Online, 20 August 2012 (15/12)
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1. European Court of Human Rights to examine complaint against ban on anonymous prepaid mobile phone cards
2. GREECE: Racist Violence Recording Network: Fatal attack on Iraqi in Athens
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Statewatch News Online11 May 2012 (10/12)
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1. EU: ACCESS TO EU DOCUMENTS: Presidency criticised: Even worse than the Commission
2. EU: Visits campaign : Obstacles to the right to know: Migrant Camps in Europe
3. EU-EAW: Council: practical operation of the European arrest warrant – Year 2011
4. EU: AI and ECRE Letter on behalf on 166 NGOs:Appeal to EU institutions
5. EU-ECJ: SCHENGEN BORDERS CODE: ECJ General Advocate’s opinion on sea surveillance
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The New Dark Age 