• Big Brother in your car – Orwellian box to track your movements

  The government is backing a project to install a “communication box” in new cars to track the whereabouts of...

   

• Two thirds of the UK do not trust the Government with data

  MORE than two thirds of the UK population no longer trust the Government with their personal data, according to a new report.   The...

   

• DNA database grows by 38 per cent in two years

  By Tom Young | Some 1.4 million new profiles have been added to the DNA database in the past two years – a rise of 38...

   

• Security and fundamental freedoms on the Internet

    Increasingly, companies, governments, police and even criminals are seeking the greatest possible access to our private...

   

• Police Invade High School in Mass Drug Raid- Find One piece of “Paraphernalia”

  By Phil Leggiere | Police from various jurisdictions swarm on a Connecticut High School with police dogs, ransack over...

   

• Are Universities Turning into Corporate Drone Factories?

  Unless we take hold of the reigns we will be cursed with a more ruthless form of corporate power wielded through naked repression. In...

   

• Government should offer incentives for homes to go green

  By Hank Kalet | The federal government should help homeowners go green. Several states are already seeking ways to encourage...

   

• Obama Won’t Speed Up Iraq Pullout

  In yet another instance of lowering the expectations on the campaign promised US pullout from Iraq, President Barack Obama...

   

• 40,000 reasons the G20 must act

  By Adrian Roberts | THOUSANDS of campaigners marched through London on Saturday in the run-up to the G20 summit to demand...

   

• New claim of MI5 collusion in torture

  Claims that secret agents working for MI5 and MI6 watched and encouraged the torture of a second British resident held by...

   

• British activist jailed in China for Olympics protest

  A British man was sentenced to serve six months in a Hong Kong jail after being found guilty of causing a public nuisance. Matt...

   

• Will civil liberties be eroded by eborders legislation?

  By ADRIAN DARBYSHIRE  | COULD Big Brother soon be keeping tabs on Isle of Man residents’ travel arrangements? That’s...

   

• A golden opportunity to test Obama pledge on open government

  IT is said to be the most impregnable vault on Earth: built out of granite, sealed behind a 22-tonne door, located on a...

   

• Free Expression Assault Continues at UN Human Rights Council

  Freedom House condemns the UN Human Rights Council for undermining the universal right to freedom of expression by once again...

   

• New Labour’s dream is a surveillance state nightmare

  The Networker There’s a delicious moment in Alastair Beaton’s satirical film, The Trial of Tony Blair, in which...

   

• Wired editor: Google has us all in its web

  Google’s new Street View service – which displays 360-degree photographs of streetscapes in 25 British towns...

   

• Security services eye personal data

  Privacy campaigners are already protesting the idea to use personal data to for ‘pre-emptive surveillance’. By...

   

• Government may snoop on websites

  By Stefano Ambrogi | Social networking websites like Facebook could be forced to pass on details of users’ friends...

   

• MP calling for ID card scheme to be ditched

  SOUTH Derbyshire MP Mark Todd has called on the Government to abandon its plans for ID cards. Since November, ID cards have...

   

• Countries Urged to Follow Irish Lead on Guantanamo

  OneWorld US | European countries should emulate Ireland’s offer to accept Guantanamo detainees who will be released...

   

• UN report says Israel used boy as human shield, Israel denies

  JERUSALEM/GENEVA: Israel on Tuesday slammed as “one-sided” a report by a UN human rights investigator which said...

   

• Privacy group urges sites to say no to Phorm

   Online privacy and civil liberties organisation the Open Rights Group has urged major websites including Amazon, Google,...

   

• Fresh security fears force halt to work on ContactPoint child super-database

  By Leo King | Fresh security fears over the ContactPoint child database have forced the government to call a halt to its...

   

• ID cards not compulsory after all, says Home Office

  By John Lettice | Plans to make ID cards compulsory for UK citizens at some point in the middle distance have been officially...

   

• Council uses spy plane to snoop on homes

  They already track innocent citizens’ movements with CCTV, are in cahoots with police over speed cameras, and have...