• Google’s Street View rejected in Greece over privacy

  A privacy watchdog has banned Google Inc. from gathering detailed, street-level images in Greece for a planned expansion...

   

• ‘Smart’ cameras doing job of human eyes

  The surveillance cameras at Big Y, a Massachusetts grocery chain, are not just passively recording customers and staff. They’re...

   

• ID scheme will cost £400m annually

  By SA Mathieson  | If start up costs of £300m are included, the National Identity Scheme looks set to cost government...

   

• A perpetually benevolent state

  By Paul Evans | DNA, according to top boffins and Joe Strummer, is “all coded in the initial phase”. There’s no...

   

• DNA OF THE INNOCENT TO BE KEPT FOR 12 YEARS

  DNA profiles of innocent people will be held on databases for over a decade under ­plans that take us closer to being a...

   

• YOU’LL PAY FOR ID CARDS…TWICE

  THE Government today vowed to press ahead with the hated £5 billion ID cards – and roll the scheme out within months. Ignoring...

   

• Police facing growing pressure over tactics

  By Siân Ruddick | The Metropolitan Police Authority is under growing pressure over its operation around the G20 protests...

   

• Secret Black Box Probe Will Monitor Web Activity

  SPY chiefs are pressing ahead with secret plans to monitor all internet use and telephone calls in Britain despite an announcement...

   

• A question of competence

  When John Reid became Home Secretary he infamously described his new department as being “not fit for purpose”....

   

• Bomb-proof CCTV

  Depressing news for extremist privacy lovers today: a cheap CCTV camera which can reliably survive a large bomb explosion...

   

• Police spy on activist groups

  POLICE are using a network of hundreds of paid informants to feed them information about protest groups, according to secret...

   

• Street View nod prompts call for privacy watchdog reform

  By Chris Williams | Frustrated by years of alleged intransigence in dealing with complaints about privacy-infringing new...

   

• Paying billions for our database state

  It is cost rather than privacy concerns that will save us from Labour’s megalomaniac surveillance schemes – a point...

   

• Police watchdog fails to block new demo video

  By Jack Lefley | The police watchdog has failed in an attempt to stop the broadcast of new footage of the moments leading...

   

• Government issue warning to Town Hall CCTV

  Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has vowed to stop councils using CCTV to spy on staff, Yourmaidstone reports. A survey has revealed...

   

• MPs to probe ISP snooping

  By Chris Williams  | MPs have today launched an investigation into the use of snooping technology by ISPs which allows them...

   

• Owning a camera doesn’t make you a criminal

  When George Bush pronounced the war on terrorism as the “war on tourism”, we thought it was because he was an...

   

• School bus tracked by satellite

  Parents in North Wales will be able to use satellite tracking to check their children are on the school bus, as part of a...

   

• FBI Workers Accused Of Spying On Teen Girls

  Two FBI workers are accused of using surveillance equipment to spy on teenage girls as they undressed and tried on prom gowns...

   

• Britain Sleep Walks Into a Police State as Political Dissent is Criminalised

  Julie Hyland writes: “From foul deeds endless tragedy arises,” the World Socialist Web Site wrote, commenting on the...

   

• RIPA review proves snoopers’ charter got out of hand

  Commenting on Government review into the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary,...

   

• Judge rejects bid to derail wiretap challenge

  A San Francisco federal judge rejected on Friday the Obama administration’s attempt to derail a challenge to former...

   

• The grim RIPA and the Surveillance state

  Labour’s polling has at last picked up that many people hate their surveillance society. They tell us today they will look...

   

• Internet records to be stored for a year

  Details of every email sent and website visited by people in Britain are to be stored for use by the state from tomorrow...

   

• Government denies that British live in “a surveillance society”.

  Justice Minister Lord Bach insisted the Government took its obligations under data protection and human rights legislation...