e-nsecure.net blog - Comments on IT security and Privacy or the lack thereof.
Rat's Blog -The Reverend Rat writes about London street life and technology
Duncan Drury - wired adventures in Tanzania & London
Dr. K's blog - Hacker, Author, Musician, Philosopher
David Mery - falsely arrested on the London Tube - you could be next.
James Hammerton
White Rose - a thorn in the side of Big Brother
Big Blunkett
Into The Machine - formerly "David Blunkett is an Arse" by Charlie Williams and Scribe
infinite ideas machine - Phil Booth
Louise Ferguson - City of Bits
Chris Lightfoot
Oblomovka - Danny O'Brien
Liberty Central
dropsafe - Alec Muffett
The Identity Corner - Stefan Brands
Kim Cameron - Microsoft's Identity Architect
Schneier on Security - Bruce Schneier
Politics of Privacy Blog - Andreas Busch
solarider blog
Richard Allan - former Liberal Democrat MP for Sheffield Hallam
Boris Johnson Conservative MP for Henley
Craig Murray - former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan, "outsourced torture" whistleblower
Howard Rheingold - SmartMobs
Global Guerrillas - John Robb
Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends
Vmyths - debunking computer security hype
Nick Leaton - Random Ramblings
The Periscope - Companion weblog to Euro-correspondent.com journalist network.
The Practical Nomad Blog Edward Hasbrouck on Privacy and Travel
Policeman's Blog
World Weary Detective
Martin Stabe
Longrider
B2fxxx - Ray Corrigan
Matt Sellers
Grits for Breakfast - Scott Henson in Texas
The Green Ribbon - Tom Griffin
Guido Fawkes blog - Parliamentary plots, rumours and conspiracy.
The Last Ditch - Tom Paine
Murky.org
The (e)State of Tim - Tim Hicks
Ilkley Against CCTV
Tim Worstall
Bill's Comment Page - Bill Cameron
The Society of Qualified Archivists
The Streeb-Greebling Diaries - Bob Mottram
Your Right To Know - Heather Brooke - Freedom off Information campaigning journalist
Ministry of Truth _ Unity's V for Vendetta styled blog.
Bloggerheads - Tim Ireland
W. David Stephenson blogs on homeland security et al.
EUrophobia - Nosemonkey
Blogzilla - Ian Brown
BlairWatch - Chronicling the demise of the New Labour Project
dreamfish - Robert Longstaff
Informaticopia - Rod Ward
War-on-Freedom
The Musings of Harry
Chicken Yoghurt - Justin McKeating
The Red Tape Chronicles - Bob Sullivan MSNBC
Campaign Against the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill
Stop the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill
Rob Wilton's esoterica
panGloss - Innovation, Technology and the Law
Arch Rights - Action on Rights for Children blog
Database Masterclass - frequently asked questions and answers about the several centralised national databases of children in the UK.
Shaphan
Moving On
Steve Moxon blog - former Home Office whistleblower and author.
Al-Muhajabah's Sundries - anglophile blog
Architectures of Control in Design - Dan Lockton
rabenhorst - Kai Billen
(mostly in German)
Nearly Perfect Privacy - Tiffany and Morpheus
Iain Dale's Diary - a popular Conservative political blog
Brit Watch - Public Surveillance in the UK - Web - Email - Databases - CCTV - Telephony - RFID - Banking - DNA
BLOGDIAL
MySecured.com - smart mobile phone forensics, information security, computer security and digital forensics by a couple of Australian researchers
Ralph Bendrath
Financial Cryptography - Ian Grigg et al.
UK Liberty - A blog on issues relating to liberty in the UK
Big Brother State - "a small act of resistance" to the "sustained and systematic attack on our personal freedom, privacy and legal system"
HosReport - "Crisis. Conspiraciones. Enigmas. Conflictos. Espionaje." - Carlos Eduardo Hos (in Spanish)
"Give 'em hell Pike!" - Frank Fisher
Corruption-free Anguilla - Good Governance and Corruption in Public Office Issues in the British Overseas Territory of Anguilla in the West Indies - Don Mitchell CBE QC
geeklawyer - intellectual property, civil liberties and the legal system
PJC Journal - I am not a number, I am a free Man - The Prisoner
Charlie's Diary - Charlie Stross
The Caucus House - blog of the Chicago International Model United Nations
Famous for 15 Megapixels
Postman Patel
The 4th Bomb: Tavistock Sq Daniel's 7:7 Revelations - Daniel Obachike
OurKingdom - part of OpenDemocracy - " will discuss Britain’s nations, institutions, constitution, administration, liberties, justice, peoples and media and their principles, identity and character"
Beau Bo D'Or blog by an increasingly famous digital political cartoonist.
Between Both Worlds - "Thoughts & Ideas that Reflect the Concerns of Our Conscious Evolution" - Kingsley Dennis
Bloggerheads: The Alisher Usmanov Affair - the rich Uzbek businessman and his shyster lawyers Schillings really made a huge counterproductive error in trying to censor the blogs of Tim Ireland, of all people.
Matt Wardman political blog analysis
Henry Porter on Liberty - a leading mainstream media commentator and opinion former who is doing more than most to help preserve our freedom and liberty.
HMRC is shite - "dedicated to the taxpayers of Britain, and the employees of the HMRC, who have to endure the monumental shambles that is Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC)."
Head of Legal - Carl Gardner a former legal advisor to the Government
The Landed Underclass - Voice of the Banana Republic of Great Britain
Henrik Alexandersson - Swedish blogger threatened with censorship by the Försvarets Radioanstalt (FRA), the Swedish National Defence Radio Establishement, their equivalent of the UK GCHQ or the US NSA.
World's First Fascist Democracy - blog with link to a Google map - "This map is an attempt to take a UK wide, geographical view, of both the public and the personal effect of State sponsored fear and distrust as seen through the twisted technological lens of petty officials and would be bureaucrats nationwide."
Blogoir - Charles Crawford - former UK Ambassodor to Poland etc.
No CCTV - The Campaign against CCTV
Barcode Nation - keeping two eyes on the database state.
Lords of the Blog - group blog by half a dozen or so Peers sitting in the House of Lords.
notes from the ubiquitous surveillance society - blog by Dr. David Murakami Wood, editor of the online academic journal Surveillance and Society
Justin Wylie's political blog
Panopticon blog - by Timothy Pitt-Payne and Anya Proops. Timothy Pitt-Payne is probably the leading legal expert on the UK's Freedom of Information Act law, often appearing on behlaf of the Information Commissioner's Office at the Information Tribunal.
Armed and Dangerous - Sex, software, politics, and firearms. Life’s simple pleasures… - by Open Source Software advocate Eric S. Raymond.
Georgetown Security Law Brief - group blog by the Georgetown Law Center on National Security and the Law , at Georgtown University, Washington D.C, USA.
Big Brother Watch - well connected with the mainstream media, this is a campaign blog by the TaxPayersAlliance, which thankfully does not seem to have spawned Yet Another Campaign Organisation as many Civil Liberties groups had feared.
Spy on Moseley - "Sparkbrook, Springfield, Washwood Heath and Bordesley Green. An MI5 Intelligence-gathering operation to spy on Muslim communities in Birmingham is taking liberties in every sense" - about 150 ANPR CCTV cameras funded by Home Office via the secretive Terrorism and Allied Matters (TAM) section of ACPO.
FitWatch blog - keeps an eye on the activities of some of the controversial Police Forward Intelligence Teams, who supposedly only target "known troublemakers" for photo and video surveillance, at otherwise legal, peaceful protests and demonstrations.
why are they letting the terrorists win?
they ARE THE TERRORISTS
WAKE UP!
I really don't buy the "paved with good intentions" and the stuff about future governments.
It is THIS government undermining our freedoms NOW and they KNOW it! Yes there may well be more totalitarian governments in future - they will build upon foundations built consciously by this government. It would not take a coup d'etat to throw us into a fascist state. The fascists have influence now and they are exercising it.
We should not let this government off the hook by suggesting naive aims and beliefs lead their actions. They may seem like bumbling fools, but they have been educated alongside and are activly lobbied at by the sort of people we might fear in future. The people who are ruled are the natural enemy of any state - Blair, Clarke et al know this quite clearly.
@ Dunx -
Which of them are cleverly concealing their expert grasp of technological issues under the cunning diguise of utter incompetence ? 8-)
It is very worrying that, in their youth, Jack Straw (ex Home Secretary, current Foreign Secretary), Chatles Clarke (Home Secretary) , John Reid (Defence Minister) and the disgraceful David Blunkett (ex Home Secretary) have all been hardline Marxists or actual card carrying Communists, at the time of the Cold War with the Soviet Union.
This betrays a fundamental willingness to consider evil "ends justifies the means" policies, which crush the individual in favour of the State or Party policies.
Tony Blair seems to have been espousing the philosophy of Hobbes' Leviathan recently.
Gordon Brown is seen as some sort of antidote to Tony Blair by some Labour party members, but he seems to be at least as much of a control freak as anyone else in NuLabour, who fully supports these three Acts of Parliament.
I don't doubt that few of them could handle sending or receiving email - but the technology is besides the point. Their intentions are what really worry - they are willing to allow technical firms to promise them the moon on a stick. Even if the technology doesn't initially deliver, the legislation survives and they have made a mark on our culture and democracy. , and spent a good deal of our money building every growing systems of control.
@ Dunx - so what can be done to restore our lost freedoms and liberties ?
I never thought that I would say this but I think that we need to learn some lessons from France.
The government is not blind to the fact that terrorism is a convenient way of introducing otherwise unpopular legislation. For this reason, many thought that 9/11 was an elaborate US govt conspiracy. I believe that this gradual erosion of our liberties has been made possible because the people of the UK are too apolitical and apathetic to en mass challenge the objectives of our government.
Labelling people 'terrorists' because their dissent regarding govt policy may influence others, means that the people will never legally be able to object to the government. It almost makes me want to educate my children in urban warfare in case their generation needs to revolt! But then, they would already have committed the criminal act of disliking the state, and been labelled 'terrorist' or 'partisan'. This is fucking insane.
The government is not blind to the fact that terrorism is a convenient way of introducing otherwise unpopular legislation. For this reason, many thought that 9/11 was an elaborate US govt conspiracy. I believe that this gradual erosion of our liberties has been made possible because the people of the UK are too apolitical and apathetic to en mass challenge the objectives of our government.
Labelling people 'terrorists' because their dissent regarding govt policy may influence others, means that the people will never legally be able to object to the government. It almost makes me want to educate my children in urban warfare in case their generation needs to revolt! But then, they would already have committed the criminal act of disliking the state, and been labelled 'terrorist' or 'partisan'. This is fucking insane.
OK the first thing I would do now if I invented a time machine would be to go back to the end of WWII and say to the Allies (esp. USA) "Do NOT under any circumstances allow Nazi scientists and party members to escape. Do NOT import those scientists en masse into the USA as a means to an end, just take their secrets and execute all the scientists that helped the Nazi war machine. Why? Because they'll end up controlling America and they won't do it by pure force this time - as you allow them to learn their lesson." Either that or at the start of WWII: "Don't bother fighting lads, Hitler may lose but his ideas will win in the end, and ideas kill more than just one physical man can compensate for". Or something.
1984 - more like 2024.