Daily Archives: March 24, 2009 »
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 by the United States but cannot return to their home countries, says an international human rights monitor. “This
Read More »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 its three-week war on the Gaza Strip was possibly a war crime. “Unfortunately this is a further
Read More »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, Ebay and Facebook to opt out of Phorm’s targeted advertising system. Jim Killock, the group’s executive director,
Read More »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 roll out. The temporary halt to work on the £224 million database
Read More »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 abandoned, apparently. According to the Home Office’s revised counter-terrorism strategy document, published
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