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British Government claims it wants to extend Freedom of Information Act
By Warwick Ashford | The UK’s Freedom of Information Act is to be extended beyond public sector bodies, it emerged at a conference hosted by the Information Commissioner’s Office in London yesterday. The government
Read More »CIA Refuses to Turn Over Torture Tape Documents
The CIA claims the integrity of a special prosecutor’s criminal investigation into the destruction of 92 interrogation videotapes will be compromised if the agency is forced to turn over detailed documents to the American
Read More »How U.S. Officials Circumvented the Bill of Rights
By Jacob G. Hornberger | In another embrace of President Bush’s war-on-terrorism policies, President Obama has announced that he might retain the Pentagon’s military-commission system to try people accused of terrorism. Apparently, the president, like
Read More »Suspected war criminal to lead U.S. forces in Afghanistan
On July 22 2006, Human Rights Watch issued a report titled “No blood, no foul” about American torture practices at three facilities in Iraq. One of them was Camp Nama, which was operated by
Read More »Zimbabwe’s secret police arrests top human rights lawyer
Zimbabwe’s secret police on Thursday arrested top human rights lawyer Alec Muchadehama on as yet unspecified allegations, colleagues said. Muchadehama was apprehended by three officers of the notorious “law and order” section of the
Read More »Government may renew data sharing plans
Speaking at a conference in London organised by the Information Commissioner’s Office, he emphasised the need for a new consultation on the appropriate limits of data sharing. This follows the government’s retreat from its
Read More »Street View to reshoot Japan after complaints
By Lester Haines | Google’s Street View has agreed to reshoot all the images captured by its Japan-based spymobiles following mass complaints decrying the altitude of its vehicle’s cameras. According to the Mainichi Daily News,
Read More »Digital Big Brother with IP CCTV
Half of city councils have moved their CCTV to IP systems, letting more real-time applications be used by police and other government agencies. According to numbers obtained by network firm Telindus via a Freedom
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