Daily Archives: February 28, 2008 »
Bush Calls Surveillance Bill an ‘Urgent Priority’
By DAVID STOUT and BRIAN KNOWLTON Using some of his toughest language in weeks, President Bush prodded Congress on Thursday to pass his preferred version of surveillance legislation, asserting that every day of delay
Read More »The Guantanamo Files
A freelance historian and journalist, Andy Worthington has spent several years looking at the undercurrents of post-war British social history – in particular the clash between the state and some of its most outspoken
Read More »Anonymous – Why we fight Scientology
1. What is Scientology? To understand Anonymous – what it is and why it exists – it is necessary to understand the Church of Scientology and why it has attracted the attention it has
Read More »Anti SOCPA Campaigners To Assert Right To Protest
In response to the recent Home Office consultation titled ‘Managing Protest around Parliament’, which threatened further restrictions on demonstrations throughout the UK, a second day of action [1] called by the Campaign for Free
Read More »The workings of the CIA
By Joseph Benham When George H.W. Bush first sought the Republican nomination for president, a friend announced that he was leaving a high-ranking Central Intelligence Agency job to help the man we now know
Read More »Gov will have to ask permission for ID card information
Ian GrantPeople will have to give explicit permission for the government to access their personal details held on various databases before they can get a national identity card, ID card minister Meg Hillier told
Read More »Surveillance costs add to tax bills
CCTV and DNA advances add to bills but minister calls rises unacceptable Jill Sherman, Whitehall Editor, and Murad Ahmed Soaring costs of surveillance technology to combat crime and terrorism has contributed to the eleventh
Read More »A DNA recipe for injustice
Mixed results A national DNA database could well increase, not reduce, the number of wrongful convictions Allan Jamieson | The Guardian Three killers have been convicted this month of appalling crimes. Two were implicated
Read More »Researchers develop RFID ‘smart tags’ for workplace
Researchers at Lancaster University are developing a new generation of ‘smart tags’ to “help keep workers safe on construction sites.” NEMO technology in development The research project is creating tiny Radio Frequency ID (RFID)
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