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Human Rights Groups Still Waiting for Obama to Deliver
While human rights and open-government groups are generally pleased with President Barack Obama’s rhetoric during his first 100 days, some are skeptical that he will deliver on his promises. Caroline Fredrickson, head of the
Read More »Police Track & Record Journeys For 2 Years
The details of thousands of journeys made by motorists every day are being stored for up to two years by police. Motorists are being watched and tracked by dozens of cameras, which record the
Read More »Civil Disobedience at White House
The following news advisory comes from Witness Against Torture. On April 30th, hundreds of human rights activists will gather near the White House to call on the Obama administration to support a criminal inquiry
Read More »Pastor testifies that he was tortured in the Philippines
Claims made by the Philippines government to a good human rights track record “are utterly false”, the Rev Berlin Guerrero told the United Nations Committee against Torture this week. A victim of torture himself,
Read More »The Home Office Helped Phorm To Spy On You
RINF News Emails secured through an Freedom of Information Act request show exchanges between the British Home Office and Phorm, a highly controversial advertising company that secretly worked with British Telecom to illegally spy on users connecting
Read More »More Than 5 Million Stored On DNA Database
RINF News The UK national DNA database is expanding at an alarming rate and is already five times larger than DNA databases in other European countries. Many of the profiles contained on the database are of innocents
Read More »Could The Government Drop ID Cards?
RINF News A senior Cabinet minister has sparked a flurry of speculation that the national ID card scheme will be axed to ease public spending and reduce Britain’s debts. The controversial ID card scheme will
Read More »Sri Lankan military ‘still killing civilians’
The Tamil Tigers have accused the Sri Lankan military of continuing to bomb civilians after Colombo ordered an end to air strikes in the country’s northern war zone. Under intense international pressure to prevent
Read More »SEO Internet Marketing Skyrockets
A quick snapshot of a search for ‘SEO’ in Google Trends demonstrates how more and more people are searching for a new way to market their Internet business. Search Engine Optimization provides a simple
Read More »The Zeitgeist Disinformation Project
After receiving telephone threats from Zeitgeist creator, Peter Joseph, over a year ago RINF warned readers that not all was as it seems with the disinformation filled production. It should also be noted that
Read More »MoD Illegally Leaks Radioactive Material
In a report released under the Freedom of Information Act, the MoD has admitted that is guilty of regularly leaking Radioactive Material. Politics.co.uk reports: British nuclear submarines leaking radioactive material has become “a recurring
Read More »Houses of Parliament Protestors Get Stuck
Three woman and one man have glued themselves to a statue at the Houses of Parliament. A message posted on the Internet from the four states: “4 members of Climate Rush have just glued
Read More »Human Rights Watch on Torture of Mohammed Shah Poor
Sarah Leah Whitson of Human Rights Watch has sent and open letter to the President United Arab Emirates highlighting acts of torture commited by UAE police and members of the royal family. ——————— His Highness
Read More »UK Government Drops Big Brother ‘Database’ But Remains Big Brother
The UK government wants communications companies to keep records of our phone, text messages, e-mail and Internet traffic, but has dropped plans to keep this information stored in a centralized database. Currently UK Internet service providers are required
Read More »Tory Leader wants to give our medical records to Google
During the weekend, Tory Leader, David Cameron placed further scrutiny under the Labour Governments ”Electronic Patient Records system” and has called for NHS records to be stored online with companies such as Google and Microsoft. He
Read More »Organic SEO – Search Engine Optimization – Organic
When it comes to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) there’s really only two options available. Pay Per Click (PPC) or Organic SEO. The first option means spending, quiet often, big bucks on advertising campaigns that
Read More »WAR CRIMES CONFERENCE SHORT REPORT
Tim Symonds | The Conference took place on 19-21 February 2009 at the Institute Of Advanced Legal Studies, London University, in association with SOLON and The Institute of Historical Research. Plenary Talk by Lesley
Read More »Spain’s Socialist Party government suppresses torture probe of Bush officials
The Obama administration and Spain’s Socialist Party (PSOE) government are working in tandem to prevent the prosecution of top Bush officials. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister José Luis Zapatero were both popularly elected
Read More »G8 environment summit ends in no deal
THE G8 environment ministers’ meeting in Sicily ended without agreement on carbon dioxide emissions targets on Friday. UN environment programme executive director Achim Steiner said that significant gaps remain on targets for emission cuts
Read More »How To Get Your Site To The Top On Google
THE RINF SEO MASTERCLASS VIDEO SERIES RINF founder, Mick Meaney explains how easy it is to get top search engine rankings, by just clicking your mouse. Even if you don’t have a website yet, this
Read More »Killing Civilians: Questions to Ask in the Dead of Night
Almost like clockwork, the reports float up to us from thousands of miles away, as if from another universe. Every couple of days they seem to arrive from Afghan villages that few Americans will
Read More »Abuse Isn’t Torture If a Doctor Is There
The Sick Logic of the CIA Memos. By Sheri Fink | Perhaps the most chilling aspect is that medical professionals apparently conducted a form of research on the detainees, without their consent. Former CIA
Read More »Torture Worked to Sell the Iraq War
Three cheers for Dick Cheney. The former vice president has urged, however rhetorically, that the Obama administration release more of the torture memos. “One of the things that I find a little bit disturbing
Read More »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 recordings made by a potential recruit. A member of the climate-change protest group, Plane
Read More »ICO can no longer be seen to be independent of Whitehall
7 civil servants / Whitehall moles on secondment to the Information Commissioners Office The UK FOIA blog The work of the Information Commissioner: Govt response to the Justice Cttee contains this alarming quote from
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