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2009.01.05: Remote Searching of Computer Hard Disks - remember that RIPA etc. do not protect business premises from arbitrary intrusive surveillance, property inteference etc.
2009.01.04: Google.co.uk - politically insensitive and inaccurate Metropolitan Police Service "Extremist" Sponsored Links and AdWords campaign
2009.01.02: Tom Watson and the US Air Force Blog Response Flowchart
2008.12.31: Sir Ken Macdonald, former Director of Public Prosecutions: "This database would be an unimaginable hell-house of personal private information"
2008.12.24: Press Association: Police 'secretly taped Damian Green arrest'
2008.12.22: For how much longer will the UK media and bloggers be able to freely investigate stories like the Bob Quick anti-terrorist policeman / family wedding cars business story ?
2008.12.16: Jacqui Smith's speech to Intellect - do we have - "safeguards, openness, proportionality and common sense" - or a surveillance society ?
2008.12.12: UK Big Brother Awards - boos for NuLabour, hurrahs for Sarah Ludford, Phil Booth, Helen Wallace, Gareth Crossman, Becky Hogge and David Davis
2008.12.10: BBC Politics Show - Police payments to mobile phone companies for Communications Data
2008.12.08: House of Commons lets the Government neuter the inquiry into the search of Damian Green MP's offices and emails.
2008.12.06: Wilson Doctrine and Parliamentary emails and the arrest of Damian Green MP
2008.12.04: ECHR judgment on the Marper case - rules that UK Government and Police indefinite retention of innocent people's tissue samples, DNA profiles and fingerprints is illegal
2008.12.02: NPIA Practice Advice on Stop and Search in relation to Terrorism and on the War on Photographers
2008.11.28: Damian Green - Conservative MP frontbench spokesman arrested for political whistleblowing to the media
2008.11.26: Privacy International - Speaking of Terror: A survey of the effects of counter-terrorism legislation on freedom of the media in Europe
2008.11.25: Tony Blair and phone security
2008.11.20: BNP Membership List - the mainstream media seem to be at least 2 days behind blogs etc.
2008.11.15: Bomb resistant Architecture and Design competition from the Home Office - will the new US Embassy in London be next ?
2008.11.11: Wandsworth Prison IMB report 2007-2008 - things have got even worse with illegal drugs and mobile phones in the last year
2008.11.08: House of Lords minor amendment to the Counter-Terrorism Bill - removing your innocent DNA from Government databases - rejected by the Commons
2008.11.02: Secretary of State for Work and Pensions James Purnell loses Cabinet ministerial "red box" correspondence on a train
2008.11.02: Government Gateway USB memory device with system passwords and source code found in a pub car park
2008.10.28: Official Secrets Act prosecutions and media spin - Richard Jackson has been treated more leniently than Corporal Daniel James
2008.10.27: BBC1 8.30pm Panorama - You can run... but can you hide? - personal data privacy and security abuses
2008.10.23: Icelanders are NOT Terrorists !
2008.10.22: Kim Howells appointed as Intelligence and Security Committee chairman
2008.10.20: Counter-Terrorism Bill clause 83 reminder - chilling effect on reporting or speculation about military or intelligence service or police personnel ?
2008.10.19: Sunday Times: mandatory mobile phone registration database ?
2008.10.18: Borders and Lothian Police ANPR data mining for "ethical income generation" and "creating and exploiting business opportunities" for Northgate Information Solutions
2008.10.18: War on Photographers - Police "guidance" to be published in November ?
2008.10.18: Home Secretary Jacqui Smith - EU G6 plus USA Ministers discussing "remote searches of computer hard drives"
2008.10.14: MoD statement confirms loss of the 1.7million record TAFMIS recruitment database, yet again
2008.10.13: Court of Appeal ruling on RIPA Part III section 49 notices and section 53 prosecutions regarding law enforcement access to encryption keys etc.
2008.10.12: Counter-terrorism Bill - covert DNA sampling and analysis with no effective safeguards
2008.10.10: The Sun: MoD data on 1m is missing - EDS again
2008.10.09: Home Office - Code of practice for public authorities disclosing information to a specified anti-fraud organisation under sections 68 to 72 of the Serious Crime Act 2007
2008.10.03: Cabinet Re-shuffle leaves vacancies for two Ministers of State at the Home Office, and the Chair of the intelligence and Security Committee
2008.10.02: Home Office promises £3.5 million for the new Police Central e-crime Unit - what happened to the £25 million that the old National Hi Tech Crime Unit launched with in 2001 ?
2008.09.30: Computer Misuse Act amendments come into force on 1st October 2008
2008.09.29: Freedom Not Fear Day - Saturday 11th October 2008
2008.09.29: BT Webwise Phorm deep packet inspection snooping without consent trial starts Tuesday September 30th 2008
2008.09.23: Where are the Most Menacing CCTV Spy Cameras ?
2008.09.23: Still time to email your MEP regarding the Telecoms Package Amendments
2008.09.18: The Noor Hanif letter and political blog censorship via the threat of expensive legal action
2008.09.15: BBC Panorama - interesting transcript of the full interview with Ray White regarding GCHQ and the Omagh bomb attack
2008.09.15: The Daily Mail is still confused by images of the MI5 and MI6 headquarters buildings
2008.09.15: West Midlands Police - lost or stolen 4GB USB memory device with "top secret terrorist investigation data"
2008.09.15: National Automatic Number Plate Recognition Database data retention function creep
2008.09.14: BBC Panorama - GCHQ mobile phone interception and tracking and the Omagh bomb attack
2008.09.11: The next Home Office data security and privacy disaster ? Sharing all our financial details with private sector "specified anti-fraud organisations"
2008.09.09: NUJ video - Press Freedom: "Collateral Damage"
2008.08.28: Communications Data Retention - internet access, internet e-mail and internet telephony
2008.08.22: New GCHQ careers recrutiment website launched - why is this not run securely by GCHQ themselves ?
2008.08.21: Home Office and PA Consulting lose the names and addresses of all the most serious criminals in the UK
2008.08.21: Yet Another MI6 Secret Intelligence Service recruitment website
2008.08.21: The Guardian - MI5 Restricted document - Understanding radicalisation and violent exrtremism in the UK - whistleblower leak or propaganda briefing ?
2008.08.16: Sunday Telegraph magazine article on the harrassment of photographers by jobsworths - time for a bit of sousveillance ?
2008.08.13: Draft Constitutional Reform Bill Clause 43
2008.08.12: 10 Downing Street website relaunch failure - Government IT cockup or foreign cyber attack ?
2008.08.10: Civil Nuclear Constabulary to be expanded into a Critical National Infrastructure Police force ? - some obvious worries
2008.08.09: Has the National Risk Register been politically censored ?
2008.08.04: Review: Surveillance Unlimited: how we've become the most watched people on earth - Keith Laidler
2008.07.31: Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport report - no specific mention of controls on blogs, but they want to track and trace mobile phone images
2008.07.29: Trades Unions betray their members over Labour ID Card scheme
2008.07.28: The Guardian: MI5 targets dissidents as Irish terror threat grows - the numbers do not seem to add up
2008.07.27: Channel 4 TV 7pm - Car Bomb documentary by Robert Baer - what about the Infernal Machines ?
2008.07.26: Annual Report of the Chief Surveillance Commissioner to the Prime Minister and to Scottish Ministers for 2007-2008 by the Rt. Hon. Sir Christopher Rose
2008.07.23: Report of the Interception of Communications Commissioner for 2007 by the Rt. Hon. Sir Paul Kennedy
2008.07.23: Report of the Intelligence Services Commissioner for 2007 by Rt. Hon. Sir Peter Gibson
2008.07.23: RIPA Commissioners reports for 2007 - a mockery of transparent public scrutiny
2008.07.22: RIPA Commissioners reports for 2007, Government response to A Surveillance Society? etc.
2008.07.22: Another evasive Parliamentary Answer about Surveillance of MPs visiting prisons and the Wilson Doctrine
2008.07.20: Sunday Times: Downing Street advisor BlackBerry security incident in China - where is the detailed practical electronic device security advice to travellers from the FCO ?
2008.07.18: How many lost or stolen laptop computers or USB memory sticks etc. will it take before anyone is prosecuted at the Ministry of Defence ? When will a Minister resign ?
2008.07.17: Phorm worries at the British Telecom plc AGM and Dept. for BERR
2008.07.16: We would have liked to have commented on the Intelligence and Security Committee's annual report, but it is still secret, unless you are a favoured mainstream journalist
2008.07.15: Information Commissioner mildly criticises the Home Office's centralised communications traffic database plan
2008.07.15: Yet another evasive Wilson Doctrine non-Answer from Gordon Brown regarding communications traffic data
2008.07.14: Electrical power cut in Vancouver affects Hushmail
2008.07.11: Schillings trying to censor Craig Murray again, this time at the behest of mercenary Tim Spicer
2008.07.11: Gordon Brown fails to sort out the New Cold War with Russia at the G8 summit.
2008.07.09: Counter-Terrorism Bill Clause 83 - chilling effect on reporting or speculation about military or intelligence service or police personnel ?
2008.07.08: Baroness Manningham-Buller (former head of MI5) opposes the Counter-Terrorism Bill 42 days in her maiden speech to the House of Lords
2008.07.04: Home Secretary Jacqui Smith: "no legal restriction on photography in public places", but supports legal harassment of photographers
2008.07.04: The Sun: Did Russians or al-Qaeda poison Britain's top spy? - Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee Alex Allan in a coma
2008.07.03: Support the NO2ID Nine who were arrested in Edinburgh
2008.07.01: Former Director General of the Security Service MI5 is now officially Baroness Manningham-Buller
2008.07.01: Liberty wins a minor European Court of Human Rights judgment against the UK Government over telephone and electronic data interceptions
2008.07.01: Nine NO2ID arrests at Home Office Minister Meg Hillier's secretive ID Cards centralised State database propaganda meeting in Edinburgh
2008.06.28: First use of Serious Crime Prevention Orders - how can these ever be enforced when coupled with Deportation ?
2008.06.26: Tony Gosling arrest - a fishing expedition by the Police against a journalist ?
2008.06.25: I think I'm being watched - Transport for London poster art
2008.06.25: Burton review - stolen MoD recruitment laptops (plural) data security scandal
2008.06.25: Lifting Financial Sanctions against dead terrorists
2008.06.25: Multiple Labour Government data insecurity scandal reports published on the same "bury bad news" day
2008.06.23: 28 or 29 or 30 days ? - secretive bureaucratic bungling over Terrorism Act 2000 section 44 stop and search without reasonable suspicion Authorisations
2008.06.23: Local Government Association letter on Local Council abuses of RIPA snooping powers
2008.06.21: London Diplomatic List - can you spot the expelled Russian diplomats ?
2008.06.19: Is it illegal for Foreign Intelligence Agencies to operate in the UK, or not ?
2008.06.18: Is the Labour Government snooping on David Davis and Shami Chakrabarti phone calls ?
2008.06.18: Every Step You Take - CCTV surveillance documentary - review
2008.06.18: Restrictions on Photography in Public - where are the "Prohibited Places" designated under the Official Secrets Act 1911 ?
2008.06.17: Hazel Blears - stolen laptop, no encryption, breach of Restricted and Confidential rules - which email accounts were used ?
2008.06.15: Racist CCTV - facial recognition techniques used to classify people by race - thankfully this is only an art project !
2008.06.15: Terrorist financing and money laundering Treasury documents left on a train - time for Whitehall mandarins and Ministerial heads to roll
2008.06.14: Support the re-election of David Davis via PledgeBank
2008.06.13: Yet Another Review of Whitehall data security - Sir David Omand . Was it an MI5 Security Service officer who lost the Top Secret JIC documents on the train ?
2008.06.12: David Davis seeks by-election to shame Labour over their creeping authoritarian surveillance police nanny state
2008.06.11: Top Secret Joint Intelligence Committee current intelligence assessments left on a train
2008.06.11: Counter-Terrorism Bill - disclosure of information to intelligence agencies
2008.06.10: Counter-Terrorism Bill - Coroners Inquest nobbling vote won by the Government
2008.06.08: Home Affairs Committee report - A Surveillance Society ? - unenforceable recommendations which the Government will simply ignore
2008.06.05: BT internal report leak on illegal secret Phorm test
2008.06.04: Andrew MacKinlay MP - under secret surveillance ?
2008.06.02: Gordon Brown spinning unconvincingly for 42 days internment without charge - is this a diversion to allow the rest of the Counter-Terrorism Bill to sneak through without proper scrutiny ?
2008.05.27: National Grid electricity distribution cascade failure on Tuesday ?
2008.05.27: Transport Security Bill - implication that Royal Navy anti pirate operations are illegal ?
2008.05.26: Police Receive £50 Million For 10,000 Hand Held Computers i.e. £5,000 each - are they gold plated ?
2008.05.21: The Telegraph: Tories pledge to curb use of CCTV cameras - about time
2008.05.20: Path Intelligence FootPath(tm) mobile phone tracking - a few more details
2008.05.19: Has anybody missed the Home Office website(s) yet ?
2008.05.18: Path Intelligence - Phorm for shopping centres ?
2008.05.16: Policing and Crime Reduction Bill announcement - already sneakily amended to remove references to Sir Clive Booth's police pay review
2008.05.15: Communications Data Bill announced
2008.05.13: Hazel Blears and Sergeant Flanderka - "tension monitoring" i.e. snooping on local communities
2008.05.12: Draft Constitutional Renewal Bill - short call for evidence by June 12th 2008
2008.05.11: Mail on Sunday: strange "whistleblower spies" article
2008.05.08: The Guardian: Government scraps carbon card scheme for fear of ridicule
2008.05.08: ID Cards - significant criticism even from the Government 's own Independent Scheme Assurance Panel
2008.05.07: Identity Cards scheme 10 year cost guesstimate report - illegally late again, fiddled figures, more spurious consultation threatened
2008.05.06: The Guardian: CCTV boom has failed to slash crime, say police
2008.05.05: Photography does NOT equal Terrorism
2008.05.04: How will Labour "listen to the electorate" - even more snooping ?
2008.04.30: At least eight RIPA Part III section 49 notices have been served - All Your Crypto Keys Are Belong To Us
2008.04.25: Gordon Brown's Terrorist Asset Freezing bureaucracy - petty, incompetent and illegal
2008.04.23: Banksy "One Nation Under CCTV" - tourists and beggars
2008.04.22: London ANPR mass surveillance snooping - Chief Surveillance Commissioner Sir Christopher Rose refused to get involved
2008.04.21: More secrecy over the London Congestion Charge and Low Emission Zone CCTV and ANPR spy cameras - data on innocents handed over to USA spooks
2008.04.16: Is graffiti artist Banksy being hypocritical with his "One Nation Under CCTV" art ?
2008.04.11: Parliamentary Privilege allows OGC to win Appeal against having to disclose Gateway Reviews on ID Cards scheme
2008.04.09: e-petitions for the House of Commons by 2010 ?
2008.04.03: Counter-Terrorism Bill - DNA and Data Sharing by MI5, MI6 and GCHQ - no more Duty of Confidentiality or the Wilson Doctrine ?
2008.03.29: NO2ID Database State hustings for the Mayor of London election candidates - Tuesday 8th April 2008
2008.03.27: Danger ! Draft Constitutional Renewal Bill Part 6 tries to remove even the limited constitutional safeguards of the "destroy Parliament" Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006
2008.03.26: Heathrow Terminal 5 fingerprinting temporarily delayed - bio-safety and computer security worries still remain
2008.03.23: ICO asks BAA to justify mandatory fingerprinting at Heathrow Terminal 5
2008.03.19: National Security Strategy - bias, omissions and weasel words
2008.03.19: Awaitng publicaton of the National Security Strategy with a sense fear and foreboding
2008.03.17: ACPO spokesman: Eugenics and kiddy printing - incompetence or spin ?
2008.03.14: Hints and Tips for Whistleblowers - trusted media contact details wanted
2008.03.13: Reporters Without Borders: new updated version of the "Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents"
2008.03.12: Farid Hilali in solitary confinement - voice analysis match of mobile phone intercept done in the United Kingdom
2008.03.11: Security Service MI5 website survey
2008.03.08: 17th Century Bill of Rights attempt to suppress FOIA disclosure ?
2008.03.07: Jacqui Smith and National Identity Register spin, trying to hide the Crosby Report
2008.03.07: HMRC FOIA response regarding the two tier tax return system of Special Categories for Celebs and VIPs etc.
2008.03.05: Suspiciously timed Climate of Fear propaganda campaign by the Police in the run up to the Counter-Terrorism Bill debates
2008.03.03: Surely the Phorm web page interception scam is illegal ?
2008.02.27: OGC High Court Appeal against FOIA disclosure of ID Cards Programme Gateway Reviews now set to start this Monday 3rd March 2008
2008.02.24: Home Secretary Jacqui Smith's statement on the Wilson Doctrine
2008.02.22: "Report on two visits by Sadiq Khan MP to Babar Ahmad at HM Prison Woodhill" - Rt. Hon. Sir Christopher Rose finds no illegality
2008.02.21: Statement on the Woodhill Prison bugging, Wilson Doctrine etc.
2008.02.17: Wikileaks survives a fire, but is under Temporary Restraining Order partial censorship
2008.02.15: HMRC intercept, snooping and surveillance powers commence today
2008.02.12: Spanish authorities ignore and insult the UK Law Lords over the Farid Hilali extradition
2008.02.11: Home Office refuses our FOIA request for geographical details of Terrorism Act 2000 Section 44 stop and search without reasonable suspicion Authorisation Notifications
2008.02.09: When will Labour's snooping scandals end ? More widespread Prison bugging allegations
2008.02.09: Farid Hilali finally extradited to Spain - are the Spanish authorities flouting the UK House of Lords judgment ?
2008.02.07: Privy Council Chilcot Review report on Intercept Evidence - more ***
2008.02.06: UK e-Borders excessive Passenger Name Record etc. demands - surely these break several of the Principles of Data Protection ?
2008.02.05: BBC News 24: Intercept Evidence to be allowed in court
2008.02.05: Jack Straw's Wilson Doctrine statement -Sir Christopher Rose to inquire into the Sadiq Khan MP / Babar Ahmad eavesdropping affair
2008.02.04: The Wilson Doctrine should not be abolished, it should be clarified and extended
2008.02.03: Sunday Times: illegal bugging of Muslim MP - Wilson Doctrine breached ?
2008.01.30: European Arrest Warrant extradition to Spain - Law Lords overturn habeus corpus for Farid Hilali
2008.01.29: Margaret Beckett appointed as chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee - 2006 - 2007 Annual Report published
2008.01.29: Interception of Communications in Prisons etc.
2008.01.29: The stolen MoD recruitment laptop computer held at least 605,757 addresses
2008.01.29: RIPA Interception and Intelligence Services Commissioner Annual Reports for 2006 laid before Parliament - delayed yet again
2008.01.28: HMRC try to divert attention towards their secure online tax return web front end system, and away from their back end offices
2008.01.27: Intelligence and Security Committee and unpublished Annual Reports - the Checks and Balances on the Secret State are not working
2008.01.26: HMRC tax record security only for a minority of the privileged, but not for the rest of us
2008.01.25: Counter-Terrorism Bill 2008 published - pre-charge detention sleight of hand obscures destruction of duty of confidence etc.
2008.01.22: Home Secretary promises Metal Detectors in some schools, but they are still not installed in every Prison
2008.01.21: Des Browne now admits to 3 stolen, unencrypted Ministry of Defence recruitment laptop computers
2008.01.19: Ministry of Defence 600,000 recruitment records on stolen laptop - ignorance or "Data Traitor" malice ?
2008.01.15: Independent Barring Boards and the Data Protection Principles
2008.01.13: Independent on Sunday - Ministry of (In)Justice plans to VeriChip and release prisoners
2008.01.09: Derek Pasquill FCO whistleblower Official Secrets Act prosecution dropped
2008.01.09: Parliamentary e-Petitions consultation - can they be trusted with signers personal and communications traffic data ?
2008.01.06: Why does DEFRA need to snoop on the Electoral Register and on unlisted landline telephone details to provide Flood Warnings ?
2008.01.06: Gordon Brown still clueless on ID Cards and the National Identity Register centralised biometric database
2008.01.02: Computer Misuse Act amendments - inadequate Crown Prosecution Service Guidance
2007.12.31: The United Kingdom is still an "endemic surveillance society" - Privacy International survey 2007
2007.12.28: Political Lexicon 2008 - list of mostly NuLabour Orwellian Newspeak
2007.12.19: Deja vu - Gordon Brown fails to publish the RIPA Commissioner annual reports - just like Tony Blair
2007.12.17: Poynter and Hannigan review reports fail to reassure anyone about UK Government data security and privacy issues - final reports delayed until after the May 2008 Local Elections ?
2007.12.13: Terrorism Act 2000 amended, with new offences, with prison penalties - by Order - no proper Parliamentary scrutiny
2007.12.12: Data privacy and security breaches still continuing despite the HMRC scandal publicity
2007.12.06: Thousands of Mobile Phones seized in UK Prisons - evidence of corruption ?
2007.12.05: HMRC offers 20,000 pound reward for the missing CDs - Spy Blog offers to act as a secure anonymous proxy go between
2007.12.05: HMRC data scandal - 350 people in witness protection scheme at risk
2007.12.05: ContactPoint - misleading details about the alleged security of the data
2007.12.04: Ministry of Defence hacking
2007.12.04: ContactPoint centralised national child database = Single Point of Failure - who guards the audit trail ?
2007.12.03: The NO2ID Pledge - What YOU can do to stop ID cards and the database state
2007.11.29: HMRC data security scandal debate - still no mandatory use of encryption
2007.11.26: Biometrics - Labour Government are still clueless about the technology
2007.11.26: How many Reviews will it take to sort out the HMRC and other UK Government data privacy and security scandals ?
2007.11.23: Did the NAO hand over the 25 million HMRC Child Benefit records to KPMG, unencrypted ?
2007.11.22: National Audit Office reveals some emails about the HMRC data security and privacy scandal - but the NAO is not totally blameless
2007.11.22: Another Foot & Mouth disease virus leak at Pirbright ?
2007.11.22: Schillings try to censor wikileaks.org over the Northern Rock bank affair
2007.11.21: HMRC 25 million personal records scandal - no encryption
2007.11.20: 25 million people's records at risk from HMRC scandal
2007.11.20: Massive potential data privacy and security breach at Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs
2007.11.19: NO2ID Campaign is calling in the pledge - 'refuse to register for an ID card and will donate £10 to a legal defence fund'
2007.11.16: Alex Allan is now Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee - his home address, phone and mobile phone number are...
2007.11.14: Countering terrorism with more quangos - more detail of Gordon Brown's security statement
2007.11.14: Gordon Brown - countering terrorism with more quangos ?
2007.11.07: EU Commission counter-terrorism package - where is the threatened censorship of bomb making websites ?
2007.11.02: Serious Crime Act 2007 - proof of how useless the Opposition is to Labour's repressive legal fantasies
2007.10.26: National CCTV Strategy - worryingly incomplete
2007.10.22: Alisher Usmanov Parliamentary Question rebuffed by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
2007.10.21: "Government house in Pimlico" / Belgravia to be sold
2007.10.14: Sunday Times - Alisher Usmanov interview passes Schillings checklist for the Reynolds defence against libel
2007.10.07: Licensing of Child Location Services Bill - does it also apply to tracking vehicles driven by 17 year olds ?
2007.10.05: 4th and 5th March 2008 - court date for OGC appeal against Information Tribunal decision ordering the publication of the early Gateway Reviews of the Identity Cards Programme
2007.10.03: Home Secretary Jacqui Smith cripples the Data Protection Act regarding the London Congestion Charge ANPR Mass Surveillance scheme
2007.10.01: RIPA Part III is now in force - is there a Section 49 Notice being served to grab your Decryption Keys ?
2007.09.29: Over 1000 days waiting for a Freedom of Information Act disclosure
2007.09.28: Tony McNulty fails to convice that Labour is trying to be less repressive
2007.09.26: Spy Blog seems to be in 8th place in Iain Dale's Top 30 Non Aligned UK political blogs
2007.09.24: Gordon Brown's speech to the Labour Party Conference - no good news for freedom. liberty or security, but plans to confiscate £670 million from bank accounts
2007.09.24: Gordon Brown to re-introduce "sus" laws for "gun crime hotspots". Is Operation Trident to be abandoned ?
2007.09.21: UK Political blog censorship - Schillings internet incompetence makes things worse for their client Alisher Usmanov
2007.09.17: Gordon Brown on the "Wilson Doctrine" again
2007.09.16: MI5 spied on the Scottish Nationalist Party - will the "Wilson Doctrine" now be extended to the Scottish Parliament ?
2007.09.16: Getting your DNA etc. removed from the Police databases is sometimes possible if you are innocent
2007.09.13: European Commissioner Franco Frattini persists with his repressive plans for internet and press censorship
2007.09.09: AP report about VeriChips and cancerous tumours in animal studies
2007.09.08: Is there a problem with the 10 Downing Street website ?
2007.09.07: Compulsory universal national DNA database "debate"
2007.09.05: Titan Rain - is there any evidence of actual Chinese government cyber attacks on the United Kingdom ?
2007.08.31: Press Complaints Commission & Espionage cases
2007.08.23: Faceless bureaucrats and Freedom of Information Act disclosures
2007.08.21: *NOT* taking your mobile phone to a meeting deemed to be “conspiratorial behavior" in Germany
2007.08.15: Ministry of Defence censorship rules further extended to cover new sharing technologies
2007.08.11: ID Cards / National Identity Register procurement begins - which company directors fancy risking 10 years in prison ?
2007.08.09: Road pricing GPS signal jammers ? What about cheap GPS position spoofing devices ?
2007.08.05: European Commission - Questionnaire on inciting, aiding or abetting terrorist offences
2007.08.04: Update on the European Commission plans for EU wide internet censorship
2007.08.02: A flurry of repressive Labour government Secondary Legislation passes unnoticed by the mainstream media and opposition politicians
2007.07.28: "Spook Country" by William Gibson takes priority this weekend over Gordon Brown's Surveillance Police Nanny State
2007.07.28: Keith Vaz becomes the new chairman of the House of Commons Select Committee on Home Affairs
2007.07.21: Philip Johnston's award winning essay on the UK Labour Government's creepy surveillance police nanny state
2007.07.18: "Wilson Doctrine" on interception of communications of MPs and Lords reiterated by Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
2007.07.17: Surveillance State Function Creep - London Congestion Charge "real-time bulk data" to be automatically handed over to the Metropolitan Police etc.
2007.07.17: Chief Surveillance Commissioner Annual Report 2006 - 2007 now online
2007.07.17: Daniel James case is NOT "Britain's first spy trial since the Cold War"
2007.07.15: Internment without charge being touted by ACPO and Gordon Brown
2007.07.08: Gordon Brown's NuLabour "National Security Committee" - a Soviet style KGB or a US style NSC ?
2007.07.04: "All Your Encryption Keys Are Belong To Us" - RIPA Part III to come into force on 1st October 2007
2007.07.01: Can an Admiral help steer the Home Office away from disaster ?
2007.06.30: Now that the Terrorist Threat Level is CRITICAL (again), what exactly are we meant to do (again) ??
2007.06.30: Tony "not fit for purpose" McNulty and Liam "android" Bryne remain as Home Office Ministers
2007.06.30: Meg Hillier replaces Joan Ryan at the Home Office
2007.06.26: FIPR Advisory Council emails intercepted or leaked to Labour politicians ?
2007.06.23: Why are Tony Blair and Gordon Brown trying to deny us the Charter of Fundamental Rights ?
2007.06.20: Open Rights Group independent monitoring report on the failed e-voting pilots during the May 2007 elections
2007.06.20: Job Advert for a NO2ID Development Officer / Fundraiser
2007.06.16: Congratulations to Shami Chakrabarti CBE
2007.06.15: Freedom of Information and Parliament
2007.06.10: The Observer: weapons grade uranium plot hype ?
2007.06.10: Why did the Attorney General Lord Goldsmith "consent" to the prosecution of Obadiah Marius under SOCPA section 128 ?
2007.06.10: Counter Terrorism Bill 2007 - new Spy Blog sub-blog for analysis and discussion
2007.06.06: UK Government internet censorship powers - The Electronic Commerce Directive (Terrorism Act 2006) Regulations 2007
2007.06.03: Will Gordon Brown's NuLabour spin doctors use the JFK airport fuel farm plot hype to justify more repressive laws this week ?
2007.06.02: SOCPA Section 128 signs appear around Parliament - now a "Protected Site"
2007.05.28: Labour's Surveillance State moves a step closer to a Police State ?
2007.05.25: Sky News - Lord's Resistance Army and the Terrorism Act 2006
2007.05.21: BBC TV Panorama - conflates WiFi radiation fears with Mobile Phone Masts - ignores Mobile Phone Handsets in Schools
2007.05.20: BBC1 Politics Show segment on CCTV and Surveillance - soundbite reporting
2007.05.19: CBRN tracer gas trials in the Marylebone area of London - why the secrecy if the gas really is "non-toxic" ?
2007.05.18: House of Commons 3rd Reading of the controversial Freedom of Information Act (Amendment) Bill - Ayes: 96 Noes: 25 - what an utter disgrace !
2007.05.18: Freedom of Information Act (Amendment) Bill - Commons 3rd Reading Closure Motion - Ayes: 117 Noes: 22
2007.05.17: MI5 and MI6 advertising for the same staff
2007.05.16: Institutionally voyeuristic broadcast television programmes about CCTV surveillance
2007.05.10: Another "good day to bury bad news" e.g. the illegally delayed ID Cards Scheme cost report ?
2007.05.08: PACE Codes consultation - DNA and Biometrics at Supermarkets ? What about cyber crime evidence ?
2007.05.05: Privacy International:- "Legal Protections and Barriers on the Right to Information, State Secrets and Protection of Sources in OSCE Participating States"
2007.05.03: OGC Gateway Reviews of Home Office Identity Cards Programme - Information Tribunal rules in favour of full disclosure
2007.05.03: Kazi Nurur Rahman - another case of entrapment ?
2007.05.03: British muslim terrorists - a Royal Commission rather than a Public Inquiry please
2007.05.02: The Fertiliser Bomb Plot - what do the numbers add up to ?
2007.04.28: House of Lords Constitution Committee inquiry into the Impact of Surveillance & Data Collection
2007.04.27: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill still not finally killed off !
2007.04.25: Farid Hilali granted a writ of Habeas Corpus, overturning his detention under the European Arrest Warrant
2007.04.24: Is the MI5 website What's New email alert system still working ?
2007.04.24: Freedom of Information Act (Amendment) Bill - zombie revived by NuLabour Government necromancers
2007.04.23: Intelligence.gov.uk website errors - is the Home Office showing its usual level of web expertise ?
2007.04.22: Still time to submit evidence to the Home Affairs Committee inquiry into "A Surveillance Society?"
2007.04.20: Where is the 6 monthly report to Parliament about the ID Card scheme costs ?
2007.04.18: Artists and Surveillance technologies
2007.04.16: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill (to hide MPs detailed expenses) - Report stage in the Commons this Friday
2007.04.13: No Justice for Extradition matters - John Reid retains control
2007.04.13: Are dead people being treated by default as criminals by the Police using the Project Lantern mobile fingerprint scanners ?
2007.04.13: False accusation and public humiliation via "Shouting CCTV"
2007.04.07: National Roads Telecommunications Services project - stealthy road tolls and snooping ?
2007.04.05: Home Office ID Card scheme assumptions published by the DWP via FOIA request
2007.04.05: National Identity Register / ID Cards procurement to start in June 2007 ?
2007.04.04: How much noise pollution will you tolerate from a CCTV surveillance and control camera ?
2007.04.02: "Pentagon hacker" facing extradition to the USA, Gary McKinnon - Appeal Decision - Court 6 Royal Courts of Justice at 9:45am today Tuesday 3rd April 2007
2007.04.02: Home Office public consultation on EU Data Retention of Communications Traffic Data Directive - closes 11th June 2007
2007.04.02: Where exactly is the "step change" in the UK's anti-terrorism defences in the new "Ministry of Injustice" Home Office ?
2007.03.28: Parliament buildings now Designated under SOCPA Section 128 - even the formely public areas
2007.03.27: Home Affairs Committee - Inquiry into "A Surveillance Society ?" announced
2007.03.27: Royal Acadamy of Engineering report: Dilemmas of Privacy and Surveillance - we told you so !
2007.03.25: Entrust Inc. must be in financial trouble to employ the disgraced politician David Blunkett
2007.03.22: "Trust your instincts" anti-terrorism propaganda - who is NOT under suspicion of terrorism ?
2007.03.22: Home Affairs Committee "inquiry into issues of surveillance"
2007.03.22: 5 years in prison for selling or using a WiFi enabled Voice over IP mobile phone ?
2007.03.20: 200 Questions/ Answers stored on the Passport / National Identity Register database ?
2007.03.18: The legal definition of terrorism - disappointing legal review
2007.03.12: Information Tribunal hearing of our OGC Gateway Review case starts today
2007.03.11: Digital Security & Privacy for Human Rights Defenders
2007.03.08: Information Tribunal appeal decision on the "Wilson Doctrine"
2007.03.05: Chris Lighfoot - the good die young
2007.03.01: Is the MI5 email subscription list system now working as it should have done when launched ?
2007.02.27: Home Secretary John Reid's webchat transcript
2007.02.27: Wilson Doctrine - does it apply to an MP's office staff ?
2007.02.23: Still time today to sign the Freedom of Information Act petition
2007.02.21: No. 10 Downing Street webchat with Home Secretary John Reid 27th Feb 2007 15:00 GMT
2007.02.20: Sir Swinton Thomas on the "Wilson Doctrine"
2007.02.20: The delayed Report of the Interception of Communications Commissioner for 2005-2006 is published
2007.02.20: Report of the Intelligence Services Commissioner for 2005-2006 published at last
2007.02.17: Snooping on smokers and non-smokers in a public place
2007.02.15: One week for comments on the revised RIPA Part III draft Code of Practice
2007.02.14: Are UK science fiction authors Glorifying Terrorism ?
2007.02.12: Terry Adams trial, the MI5 bug and the alleged £10,000 donation to the Labour Party
2007.02.09: MI5 secret photos at the Science of Spying exhibition at the Science Museum
2007.02.08: More RIPA Commissioners Annual Report suppression
2007.02.04: Sunday Telegraph: more state snooping using the excuse of the London Olympics ?
2007.02.02: Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure announced on the MI5 website, but not by email
2007.02.02: PM Tony Blair fails to clarify the Wilson Doctrine, again
2007.02.02: Prime Minister Tony Blair evades Questions on the missing RIPA Commissioners Annual Reports, again
2007.01.30: The Sun: State X-Ray Spies, secret cameras in street lamps
2007.01.29: More PMOS "denials" about the 10 Downing Street email systems - what about the Pipex router then ?
2007.01.27: How are Employers meant to check the biometric details of immigrants under the UK Borders Bill ?
2007.01.27: Guido Fawkes speculation on X.GSI emails at No.10 Downing Street
2007.01.26: FOIA reply from the Cabinet Office re the missing RIPA Commissioners' Annual Reports for 2005
2007.01.25: No more Openness at the Cabinet Office
2007.01.24: Is the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit going to be recreated outside of SOCA ?
2007.01.23: Is the Metropolitan Police Service currently registered under the Data Protection Act ?
2007.01.23: When will the missing Annual Reports of the RIPA Commissioners be published ?
2007.01.21: Sunday Mirror report about Jonathan Evans becoming the new head of MI5
2007.01.21: No 10 Downing street emails and the Loans or Cash for Honours investigation
2007.01.17: Serious Crime Bill published in the Lords
2007.01.16: July 21st 2005 London bomb attack trial - hydrogen peroxide, chapati flour, TATP detonators
2007.01.15: Cabinet Office media spin over the MI5 email subscription data affair
2007.01.14: MI5 email subscription data scandal - misleading Mail on Sunday article
2007.01.13: MI5 e-mail list subscriptions now more secure than at launch
2007.01.12: Health Protection Agency gives a few figures on Polonium-210 radiation doses in urine samples
2007.01.09: MI5 e-mail alert signup shambles - all email subscription web forms sent to the USA, without encryption
2007.01.07: Is SOCA so useless, that HM Revenue & Customs really needs "bugging and phone-tap powers" ?
2007.01.05: Is WikiLeaks.org the right idea for a whistleblowing website ?
2007.01.04: Is a Policeman wearing a Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear protection suit and mask, still legally a "Constable in Uniform" ?
2007.01.04: Still no official figures on how much Polonium-210 contamination in the UK
2007.01.02: Is former MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson going to be arrested again ?
2007.01.01: Every Step You Take - a documentary about video surveillance in Britain
2006.12.31: Spy Blog 2006 articles
2006.12.30: Use CommentOnThis.com - the Home Office Strategic Action Plan for their National Identity Scheme
2006.12.30: Saddam Hussein executed - which dictator will be next?
2006.12.29: "Wilson Doctrine" does apply to Members of the House of Lords
2006.12.27: More North Korean trade sanctions red tape
2006.12.24: Merry Christmas
2006.12.21: Encryption and the BNP membership list - does your political party or campaign group protect your personal details with encryption ?
2006.12.21: Oppose the planned restrictions on the Freedom Of Information Act - explain the issues to your Member of Parliament pledge
2006.12.21: "Wilson Doctrine" - Prime Minister Harold Wilson answers Oral Questions in the House of Commons 17th November 1966 - transcript
2006.12.20: Digital Switchover (Disclosure of Information) Bill = Social Security database rape ?
2006.12.19: Strategic Action Plan for the National Identity Scheme - what a disappointment !
2006.12.19: "loans for peerages" scandal, non-publication of RIPA Commissioners' Annual Reports and the "Wilson Doctrine"
2006.12.19: FOIA Decision Notice about the "Wilson Doctrine"
2006.12.17: More than a million innocent people now on the National DNA Database
2006.12.17: Sunday Times claims Jonathan Evans to be the next Director General of the Security Service MI5
2006.12.16: Unfounded media speculation about the retirement of Dame Eliza Mannigham-Buller as Director General of the Security Service MI5
2006.12.14: Operation Paget report on the death of Princess Diana and intelligence agencies
2006.12.14: HM Treasury Triple Red Tape - one partial Regulatory Impact Assessment revealed through an FOIA request
2006.12.14: Information Commissioner's Office publishes list of newspapers and magazines involved in the Operation Motorman scandal
2006.12.14: Operation Motorman and 305 tabloid journalists who seem to have broken the Data Protection Act - will bloggers investigate the blaggers ?
2006.12.13: Control Orders and mobile phone and internet bans
2006.12.10: Investigatory Powers Tribunal rules in favour of a complainant for the very first time
2006.12.09: Where are the missing RIPA Commissioners' annual reports for 2005 ?
2006.12.08: So exactly how much Polonium-210 radiological contamination is there, following the murder of Alexander Litvinenko ?
2006.12.08: The Big Opt Out - NHS medical records confidentiality
2006.12.05: Farid Hilali still being held in Woodhill Prison - so much for the "fast track" extradition under the European Arrest Warrant
2006.12.02: The Eddington Transport Study - no mention of privacy and security and freedom of movement issues
2006.12.02: Tom Watson MP and ANPR
2006.11.29: 2 journalists imprisoned in the Netherlands for not revealing their intelligence agency whistleblower source
2006.11.29: NOTW "Royal Editor" pleads guilty to mobile phone voicemail interception
2006.11.27: Blunkett confusedly opposed to CCTV audio snooping
2006.11.26: CCTV with audio snooping to detect "aggressive behaviour" hype
2006.11.25: Where is the UK ranked in the international Privacy, Democracy and Corruption Indices ?
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