Archives
- 2020.03.19: Channel 4 #Hunted - some #OPSEC techniques shown in the series' so far
- 2019.03.22: Protest March / Demo mobile device #OPSEC
- 2018.10.14: CryptoParty London - Fri 19th Oct 2018 @ Goldsmiths, University of London
- 2018.07.12: CryptoParty London - Mon 16th July 2018 @ 15 Hanbury Street, E1 6QR
- 2018.06.19: CryptoParty London - Tue 19th June 2018 @ 15 Hanbury Street, E1 6QR
- 2018.01.26: Digital trail chasing - slides from workshop at CryptoParty London 25th January 2018
- 2017.09.12: CryptoParty - 11 September 2017 - slides
- 2017.06.04: Safe Spaces - Theresa May uses terror attacks to threaten Internet free speech & digital economy
- 2017.02.02: Reform the Official Secrets Act(s) but do not ignore the Internet !
- 2016.05.16: MI5 Security Service website betrays visitor meta data to USA companies & agencies
- 2016.01.21: Home Office response to Police staff and volunteers "consultation" - SpyBlog 's (ignored) contribution
- 2015.11.27: Joint Committee on the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill - call for written evidence by 21st Dec 2015
- 2015.11.25: Draft Investigatory Powers Bill Joint Committee - membership
- 2015.10.20: Wilson Doctrine Emergency Debate - where were all the MPs ?
- 2015.10.18: Wilson Doctrine ruling by IPT further destroys public trust in Westminster politicians and securocrats
- 2015.08.16: City of London Police commissioner versus Apple & Google Mobile Phone Phone handset encryption
- 2015.06.14: Are United Kingdom Security Clearance databases secure, in the light of US failures ?
- 2015.05.17: Royal Navy Trident nuclear missile submarine security and safety allegations by on the run whistleblower
- 2015.03.05: Letter from Home Secretary Theresa May re: Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015 and the Internet
- 2015.03.01: Intelligence and Security Committee stops work over 2 months before General Election
- 2015.02.21: Annoyed by: The Spectator: What are we willing to do to make our intelligence agencies' job easier ?
- 2015.01.03: Annoyed by Mail on Sunday: Response to Peter Hitchens pro Putin article in Mail on Sunday
- 2014.11.01: RIPA / DRIPA review evidence to @terrorwatchdog
- 2014.10.26: Serious Crime Bill - amends Computer Misuse Act: life imprisonment re national security or economy of *any* country - even our enemies, even by GCHQ !
- 2014.10.21: GCHQ Sir Iain Lobban's valedictory speech
- 2014.07.26: Home Office mentions Online Covert Activity for first time in CHIS & Covert Surveillance Codes of Practice - applicable to SpyCops and GCHQ JTRIG
- 2014.07.19: DRIP why can't Home Office cite any cases which support 12 months of Data Retention ? HO "freedom moles" ?
- 2014.07.19: DRIP Act - flawed Regulations could actually reduce amount of useful Mobile Phone Location Data which can be legally retained
- 2014.07.19: Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 - evil yet incompetent law rushed through without proper scrutiny - when did NuLabour sneak back into power ?
- 2014.07.08: Butler-Sloss Inquiry into Child Abuse needs to provide equal or better Whistleblower protection than failed Gibson Inquiry into Torture
- 2014.06.18: Charles Farr witness statement on GCHQ Tempora etc. snooping - full searchable text
- 2014.05.27: Fiona Mactaggart seems set to replace the late Paul Goggins on Intelligence & Security Committee
- 2014.04.27: Mail on Sunday: Spy chiefs warn PM: Internet giants...shielding terrorists & paedophiles - or spin for renewed Comms Data Bill ?
- 2014.04.25: Mata Hari and WW1 era invisible ink
- 2014.04.03: Will the Wilson Doctrine be amended to include "metadata" to protect whistleblower communications with MPs ?
- 2014.03.26: Spy Blog submission to the RIPA CHIS Code of Practice Consultation
- 2014.01.19: Obama pretends to rein in metadata snooping a bit & cites Paul Revere in his non-reform of NSA snooping speech
- 2014.01.15: RIPA s49 encrypted USB devices - first conviction involving "national security" - Syed Hussain
- 2014.01.03: National Archives 1984 release: blatant Thatcher Reagan hoax tape - even fake "intelligence" rattles around Whitehall securocrats for months
- 2013.12.31: Defamation Act 2013 comes into force 1st Jan 2014 - section 5 Notice threat to anonymous blogging
- 2013.12.08: Home Affairs Committee versus editor of The Guardian - damage to confidence in all Select Committees
- 2013.12.02: Which UK politician, if any, authorised NSA snooping on "un-minimized" data of innocent people in UK ?
- 2013.11.06: Suggested Questions re Whistleblower protection for Intelligence & Security Committee to ask heads of Intelligence Agencies in public
- 2013.11.01: Heads of GCHQ, MI5, SIS "open" evidence session ISC 14:00 Thursday 7th Nov 2013
- 2013.11.01: Mass Surveillance meeting - 6:30pm Mon 4th Nov 2013 , RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London
- 2013.10.09: Security Service MI5 Director General Andrew Parker's first public speech with SpyBlog comments
- 2013.08.25: Intelligence & Security Committee chair Sir Malcolm Rifkind sees its role as public relations for the intelligence agencies it is meant to scrutinise impartially
- 2013.08.18: Is GCHQ better at avoiding snooping mistakes than NSA or are they both under-reporting / lying to their weak "auditors"
- 2013.07.20: Why is it taking Downing Street longer to censor Detainee Inquiry interim report than it took to write ?
- 2013.07.06: Does GCHQ Tempora cache of all fibre optic cable traffic contravene the Wilson Doctrine ?
- 2013.06.09: What the Intelligence & Security Committee should be asking on their trip to the USA
- 2013.05.15: Ryan Fogle alleged US spy in Moscow - unprofessional tradecraft or a setup ? Not to be copied by journalists / whistleblowers
- 2013.05.12: Sunday Times: Ipsos Mori market researchers snooping on EE mobile phones tried to sell personal data to Met Police to track criminals and protestors
- 2013.05.09: No Communications Data Bill in Queen's Speech but more vague Snooping plans, still no reform of RIPA
- 2013.04.30: HMRC abuses RIPA snooping powers against whistleblower & journalist, betrayal of confidential source by Public Accounts Committee
- 2013.03.31: Justice & Security Act 2013 - misleading furore over "secret courts" but Norwich Pharmacal nobbled, ISC FOIA & witness protection
- 2013.03.19: Public Accounts Committee - some of our "cyber" defenders give oral evidence
- 2013.03.11: Abu Qatada bail conditions - how to create a religious martyr
- 2013.02.08: The Great Firewall of Europe - European Commission website blocks Tor users , just like Iran or China
- 2013.02.03: Identity Theft by the State - Police should not have stolen the identities of dead children
- 2013.01.18: MI5 The Security Service - Register of Data Controllers entry Z8881167 has expired
- 2013.01.01: An accessible version of the Draft Anti-Social Behaviour Bill
- 2012.12.14: RN Trident submariner wannabe spy jailed for 8 years - used mobile phone to contact Russian Embassy, but caught in MI5 sting
- 2012.12.14: WhistleBlowers UK - advice, support and campaigning for whistleblowers
- 2012.12.08: Leveson Inquiry & Detainee Inquiry leak prevention procedures - BBC Radio 4 Week in Westminster Sat 8th Dec 2012
- 2012.12.01: Sir Malcolm Rifkind and the ConservativesForPutin scandal
- 2012.11.04: Can you trust your whistleblower anonymity to a Member of Parliament ?
- 2012.09.23: A new generation of CypherPunks ? CryptoParty London Sat 29 Sept @ Google Campus
- 2012.07.21: RIPA Commissioners' Annual Reports 2011-2012 - cosmetic changes, still little transparency or public confidence, misleading RIPA Part III tables
- 2012.07.20: Vodafone Sure Signal 3G signal booster registration "Stuck for a name? Try using your surname and the year you were born."
- 2012.07.10: Surprisingly strong Questioning of Charles Farr by Lord Blencathra chair of the Comms Data Bill committee
- 2012.07.08: Joint Committee on the Draft Communications Data Bill - call for evidence: 26 Questions (but a bitch ain't one)
- 2012.07.03: Joint Committee on the Draft Communications Data Bill - weak on internet expertise, strong on intelligence agency links and party Whips
- 2012.06.27: MI5 the Security Service trying to influence forthcoming legislation yet fails to prevent £800 million state sponsored cyber attack
- 2012.06.17: Augen auf und durch - postcard from former Stasi radio phone intercept station
- 2012.05.13: Defamation Bill 2012 - libel reform ok, but not if you operate a website with "anonymous" comments etc.
- 2012.04.22: Sunday Times: Profile of Charles Farr - is he personally responsible for CCDP snooping plans etc. ?
- 2012.04.22: Mail on Sunday: ... MI5 agents betrayed Libyan dissidents to Gaddafi spies in London ... - how many other such co-operations are there ?
- 2012.04.21: #Anonymous cult #OpTrialAtHome tries DDoS against GCHQ for a second Saturday in a row - they must fail
- 2012.04.15: MI5 Security Service forgets to renew its website SSL Digital Certificate
- 2012.04.14: #OpTrialAtHome Anonymous Distributed Denial of Service attack on GCHQ website - who will fail first ?
- 2012.04.05: Theresa May and Kenneth Clarke letter to Tory MPs - CCDP and CMP
- 2012.04.01: Anonymous media briefings to soften us up for even more Internet Snooping in the Queens Speech next month
- 2012.03.18: London Congestion Charge drivers' Personal & Financial Data to be secretly offshored to India
- 2012.03.03: ACPO claim that letting private companies check phone records is somehow acceptable - why not then just hand them straight over to News International ?
- 2012.03.02: BBC / Reuters and the anonymity of anti-Syrian regime activists
- 2012.02.22: Witness but not whistleblower protection for the Detainee Inquiry into torture complicity of MI5, SIS, GCHQ
- 2012.02.19: Whitehall risks public and internet industry revolt against their secretive Communications Capabilities Development Programme (CCDP) internet and phone snooping plans
- 2012.01.22: MI5 Security Service Investigative Challenge Intelligence Officer Quiz
- 2012.01.15: Will the CPS / MPS further delay the Detainee Inquiry into torture complicity by MI5, SIS/MI6 ?
- 2012.01.11: Filkin report "The Ethical Issues Arising from the Relationship Between Police and Media" could also be applied to Whitehall and the Intelligence Agencies
- 2011.12.11: Who are the other 3 people in the Daily Telegraph "spy" photo of Mikhail Repin ? - look at the EXIF meta data
- 2011.12.11: Daily Telegraph names last year's expelled Russian diplomat / spy as Mikhail Repin
- 2011.11.19: Civil case allegations about mobile phone Location Data snooping by the News of the World
- 2011.11.15: European Union Regulation on Airport Body Scanners comes into force on 1st December 2011
- 2011.11.08: Model Letter for your MP regarding Data Protection of Constituency Correspondence
- 2011.10.29: Green Paper on Justice and Security
- 2011.10.15: Home Office: aviation (in)security Authority to Carry Scheme - Black Swan Event fantasy cost/benefit assumptions
- 2011.10.04: "anonymous" pre-paid mobile phone with unlocked SIM - Samsung GT-E1080i - under £10 from Tesco
- 2011.09.27: Why is Sir Stephen Lander (ex DG of MI5) involved in the SIAC deportation case of Katia Zatuliveter ?
- 2011.09.27: Home Office: "Privacy Commissioner ? We don't need no stinking Privacy Commissioner !"
- 2011.09.15: Reply from the Detainee Inquiry, regarding anonymity protection for whistleblowers, surveillance targeting against the Inquiry itself etc.
- 2011.08.28: Labour party tracks Ken Livingstone supporters with hidden web bugs accessible by USA tracking companies and US Government
- 2011.08.24: No more "One Nation Under CCTV" art mural by Banksy, just even more CCTV snooping
- 2011.08.18: BBC Radio 4: Secret Britain
- 2011.08.11: Spy Blog letter to the Detainee Inquiry re: lack of whistleblower anonymity protection and immunity from prosecution
- 2011.08.05: Detainee Inquiry - no protection for whistleblowers, no immunity from Communications Data snooping
- 2011.07.18: Operation Weeting incompetence or malice - why was PA Journalist Laura Elston ever arrested at all ?
- 2011.07.18: Rebekah Brooks and her "We have paid the police for information" testimony back in 2003
- 2011.07.13: NYT: NOTW bought mobile phone location data for $500 a time from corrupt police
- 2011.07.10: Good riddance to the News of the World - but who else is still snooping on your mobile phones ?
- 2011.07.03: Climate of Fear: MANPADS Surface to Air missiles available for £120 aimed at Heathrow Airport from Surrey ?
- 2011.07.02: RIPA: 2010 annual report of the Interception of Communications Commissioner
- 2011.07.02: RIPA: Report of the Intelligence Services Commissioner for 2010
- 2011.07.02: RIPA: Chief Surveillance Commissioner Annual Report 2010
- 2011.07.02: All three RIPA Commissioner's Annual Reports for 2010
- 2011.06.29: Newcastle Brown - Win A Listening Device promotion of surveillance culture
- 2011.06.28: Daily Mail alleges GCHQ / MI6 top secret money laundering project betrayed to the "Russian Mafia"
- 2011.06.21: BBC reporting of the arrest of alleged SOCA website "hacker" - voyeurism or harassment ?
- 2011.06.21: SOCA website under DDoS attack - was it worth bringing it back online at all ?
- 2011.06.19: "CCTV ANPR" or just "radar activated speed signs" monitoring Julian Assange at Ellingham Hall in Norfolk ?
- 2011.06.04: MI5 / MI6 / GCHQ / CTIRU should positively deny any involvement in "Operation Cupcake" alleged cyber attack on "Inspire" magazine
- 2011.06.04: Foreign Secretary William Hague and the expulsion of Libyan diplomats from London
- 2011.04.10: Web censorship - anonymity / security issues with reporting.direct.gov.uk and the Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit - UPDATED 01May11
- 2011.03.19: Civil Disobedience or lulz with the 2011 UK Census Form
- 2011.03.09: Europol fails to audit the transfer of SWIFT financial data to the USA
- 2011.03.08: The Royal Academy of Engineering - Global Navigation Space Systems:reliance and vulnerabilities
- 2011.03.07: Census 2011 Online web forms - SSL Digital Certificates ok, but still vulnerable to Man In The Middle attacks because of SSL Re-negotiation
- 2011.03.02: British Airways terrorist Rajib Karim and Pretty Good Privacy encryption, emails as evidence, cyber lockers etc.
- 2011.02.27: James Brokenshire and the Home Office incompetently ignore the repeal of the Identity Cards Act 2006
- 2011.02.26: Indy Letters page - Glen Watson confirms lack of Census 2011 confidentiality legal powers
- 2011.02.12: Protection of Freedoms Bill: CCTV / ANPR regulation at last, but not for National Security or on Motorways etc.
- 2011.02.09: Census 2011 - snooping on your place of work, even if you are a secret agent etc.
- 2011.01.29: Sukey - peaceful protest App without any mobile phone network Communications Data or Traffic Data anonymity
- 2011.01.28: Prime Minister David Cameron re-affirms the Wilson Doctrine with a a single "No"
- 2011.01.28: Home Office: Review of counter-terrorism and security powers
- 2011.01.27: Intelligence Services Commissioner, Rt. Hon. Sir Mark Waller appointed early, announced late
- 2011.01.15: Census 2011 press release on Lockheed Martin - ONS still pretending that they will not hand over your Sensitive Personal Data to anyone else
- 2011.01.12: BBC anonymous briefing on Surveillance Orders planned replacement for Control Orders
- 2011.01.03: 2011 Census press and social media "incident" media spin preparations
- 2010.12.27: An alleged Russian spy in Parliament, but still no re-affirmation of the Wilson Doctrine by Prime Minister David Cameron
- 2010.12.21: Identity Cards Act now repealed - a victory over the "Big Brother" mass surveillance Database State
- 2010.12.12: Alternatives to WikiLeakS, which no longer caters for ordinary whistleblowers - OpenLeaks, BrusselsLeaks, BalkanLeaks, WikiSpooks, Cryptome, IndoLeaks
- 2010.11.14: Intelligence and Security Committee - who exactly are the members ? How can they be contacted securely and anonymously ?
- 2010.11.02: Sign the ORG petition against the revival of the Labour "zombie policy" of the "Interception Modernisation Programme" by the Coalition Government
- 2010.10.19: "Identity fraud costs UK £2.7billion every year" - unsubstantiated propaganda from the "National Fraud Authority" quango
- 2010.10.02: Project Champion Review - CCTV and ANPR mass surveillance ghettos in Birmingham
- 2010.09.17: MI5 Security Service Director General's speech - terrorist risk aversion attitude blamed on imported US media, still seems to argue for Control Orders, mentions Cyber-Espionage
- 2010.09.16: NO2ID - "one of the most successful pressure groups in history" - Damian Green during the Commons Third Reading of the abolition of the ID Card Act 2006
- 2010.09.16: Proposed Intelligence and Security Committee appointments - do *not* let Hazel Blears anywhere near the ISC !
- 2010.09.12: Why is there such a sentencing disparity between Official Secrets Act spying cases of Daniel James and Daniel Houghton ?
- 2010.08.15: Mail on Sunday - MI5, Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones and Ukrainian billionaire anonymous allegations and denials
- 2010.08.13: Holiday reading for Spy Blog readers - reviews of a couple of books on GCHQ and NSA
- 2010.07.28: RIPA: Annual report of the Chief Surveillance Commissioner to the Prime Minister and to Scottish Ministers for 2009-2010
- 2010.07.28: RIPA: Report of the Intelligence Services Commissioner for 2009 Commissioner
- 2010.07.28: RIPA: Interception of Communications Commissioner Annual Report for 2009
- 2010.07.14: Daniel Houghton pleads guilty to Official Secrets Act charges only
- 2010.07.04: When will PM David Cameron appoint the new Intelligence & Security Committee with enhanced resources ?
- 2010.07.04: When will Prime Minister David Cameron publish last year's RIPA Commissioners' reports ?
- 2010.07.04: When will Prime Minister David Cameron re-affirm and extend the Wilson Doctrine on the protection from snooping on constituents' communications with their elected representatives ?
- 2010.07.03: Russian "illegal" spy in the USA "traveled on a fraudulent British passport, prepared for her by the SVR"
- 2010.07.01: What laws would actually apply to a Russian "illegals" spy scandal in the United Kingdom ?
- 2010.06.24: HM Treasury Spending Challenge, online anonymity and the now insecure WikiLeaks.org
- 2010.06.16: Identity Documents Bill Committee issues call for evidence
- 2010.06.11: Police and Home Office bureaucrats could not even properly "rubber stamp" the Terrorism Act 2000 s44 stop and search without reasonable cause Authorisations
- 2010.06.05: BBC Radio 4: Law in Action Tuesday 8th June 16:00 - police image databases of innocent people, what about ANPR / CCTV ?
- 2010.05.27: Identity Documents Bill text is now online - will all the copies of the National Identity Register be destroyed ?
- 2010.05.27: Identity Documents Bill First Reading and Select Committee Chair allocations
- 2010.05.22: SSL / TLS encrypted Google search - a bit more privacy for us as a side effect, unlike WikiLeakS.org who have dropped the use of SSL
- 2010.05.20: Programme of Government - Civil Liberties: Error in establishing a database connection
- 2010.05.18: Heather Brooke - The Truth about CCTV - well researched article
- 2010.05.16: Prime Minister David Cameron and motorcycle outriders
- 2010.05.12: Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition agreement - the Civil Liberties section looks promising
- 2010.05.11: "I don't read Spy Blog anymore, it frightens me too much !" - the prospect of another Labour government terrifies us
- 2010.04.30: Domestic Extremism - secretive, unaccountable, therefore untrustworthy Police units, ACPO, TAM, NCDE, NPOIU, NDET, NETCU
- 2010.04.23: Has the Israeli diplomat / intelligence officer been expelled from London yet ?
- 2010.04.17: Erasing David film
- 2010.04.15: Daniel Houghton "also accused of unlawfully disclosing lists of intelligence staff" - MI5 and / or MI6 ?
- 2010.04.10: Bribery Act 2010 - exemptions for MI6, MI5, Active Service Military ok, but why is GCHQ exempt, no public scrutiny of Government sanctioned bribery
- 2010.04.10: The "wash up" makes a mockery of Parliamentary democracy
- 2010.04.04: BBC Radio 4 - GCHQ Cracking the Code - GCHQ Director Iain Lobban denies any "super huge database" of Communications Data
- 2010.04.04: Intelligence and Security Committee Report 2009-2010 - interference by the Cabinet Office, MI5 DIGINT, Northern Ireland terrorism, new Cyber Defence bureaucracy but CESG financially bankrupt ?
- 2010.03.27: Hostile Reconnaissance: pre-election rally on Terror Laws, Civil Liberties and Press Freedom - 7pm, Tuesday 13th of April, Friends House, Euston, London
- 2010.03.21: BBC: The Great Offices of State - The Dark Department - the Home Office
- 2010.03.16: Spy Blog article cited in leaked US Military intelligence report on Wikileaks
- 2010.03.14: Intelligence and Security Committee publishes Two annual reports - Gordon Brown keeps one still secret
- 2010.03.14: Daniel Houghton - neither the prosecution nor the defence lawyers have sufficient security clearance, even for a bail hearing ?
- 2010.03.11: Top Secret Atomic (de-classified) - British Nuclear Weapons history
- 2010.03.04: Daniel Houghton - caught in a counter-intelligence sting trying to sell MI6 and MI5 "intelligence gathering techniques" secrets stored on USB memory devices
- 2010.03.02: Us and Them - HMRC tax record Special Categories
- 2010.02.27: Office of the Identity Commissioner - Annual Report 2009
- 2010.02.25: Cryptome.org taken down by Network Solutions and Microsoft - but the net routes around censorship - try cryptome.org.uk instead - UPDATE: now back online
- 2010.02.22: Who believes that the Home Office website www.homeoffice.gov.uk is worth spending £762,000 a year on ?
- 2010.02.20: Charles Crawford - Hamas Killing: Cloned Or Fraudulent Passports
- 2010.02.20: JRRT State of the Nation opinion poll on Privacy and the Database State - the majority of us are unhappy and fearful
- 2010.02.20: Power 2010 Pledge campaign - vote to "Scrap ID cards and roll back the database state" and "Expand the Freedom of Information Act"
- 2010.02.14: Terrorism Act 2006 section 3 Internet Censorship powers have *never* been invoked
- 2010.02.12: Digital Economy Bill - Labour Government retreats over Internet Domain Name Registries
- 2010.02.11: ICO Decision Notice FS50198733 - Terrorism Act 2000 s44 stop and search Authorisations
- 2010.02.07: Consultation on the future EU-US international agreement on personal data protection and information sharing for law enforcement purposes - tell them what to do by 12th March 2010
- 2010.01.30: VX1 Party Phone unlocked Credit Card sized basic mobile phone
- 2010.01.30: Tesco still censoring "The Terrorist Hunters" by Andy Hayman
- 2010.01.28: ICO Decision Notice orders HMRC disclosure of tax record Special Categories
- 2010.01.23: UK Terror Threat Level raised again to "Severe" - just in time for "Climate of Fear" propaganda before the General Election
- 2010.01.18: Richard Taylor: Observing History - Heathrow Robbery Trial Starts Without Jury
- 2010.01.12: European Court of Human Rights Judgment against the Terrorism Act 2000 section 44 stop and search without reasonable cause powers
- 2010.01.04: 26C3 videos - possible WikiLeakS.org inspired Publishing Data Haven in Iceland and Tor Bridge Relays versus Chinese and Iranian etc. internet censorship
- 2010.01.01: Spy Blog articles 2009
- 2010.01.01: Sensationalistic voyeurism by the mainstream media is falsely hyping "full body image scanners" as the only technological magic fix to airline terrorism
- 2009.12.31: If Somalia can detect "underwear bombs" without them, why waste money on intrusive "child porn" / "see through your clothes" image scanners at airports ?
- 2009.12.23: ID Cards / National Identity Register centralised biometric database - further expansion of the Post Code Lottery to inflict the "voluntary" scheme on Liverpool and the North West etc.
- 2009.12.17: Powerless, part time, interim CCTV "regulator" appointed by the Home Office
- 2009.12.12: The Sun: Laptop is stolen at MoD HQ - "plus an encryption key to unlock highly sensitive files"
- 2009.12.12: Mass Gathering in defence of street photography - 12 Noon Saturday 23rd January 2010 Trafalgar Square, London
- 2009.12.11: Intercept as Evidence Report - £2.5 million spent and still no workable "legal model"
- 2009.12.02: RIPA Interception of Communications Commissioner Sir Paul Kennedy and the MPs expenses scandal
- 2009.12.01: Digital Economy Bill 2009 seeks to crush UK Internet Domain Registry industry with bureaucratic red tape and unfair legal costs
- 2009.11.29: "JFL" provides some more details about his imprisonment for refusing to divulge his cryptographic keys under a RIPA Part III section 49 notice
- 2009.11.25: Forced into Prison / Mental Hospital for not revealing cryptographic keys to the Kafkaesque Police and (in)Justice system here in the United Kingdom
- 2009.11.21: Bribery Bill 2009 clause 12 - some Secret Intelligence Service MI6 or Security Service MI5 exemptions, but why should Local Authority Trading Standards etc. ever be allowed to bribe anyone ?
- 2009.11.19: Manchester area post codes where the foolish can apply for an ID Card
- 2009.11.18: Queen's Speech - "mobile phones in prisons" more useless, repetitive, legislation planned
- 2009.11.05: Home Office summary of responses to the public consultation on "Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000: Consolidating orders and codes of practice"
- 2009.10.22: United Kingdom (England & Wales) Census Day - Sunday 27th March 2011 - will you boycott the intrusive, snooping questions ?
- 2009.10.21: Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 conviction statistics
- 2009.10.19: Does a Registered Post mass mailing in USA = Communications Data / Banking Secrecy law breach in Switzerland ?
- 2009.10.17: Non-reportable injunctions - Mr. Justice Tugendhat, Mr. Justice Sweeney and Mr. Justice Maddison
- 2009.10.17: Carter-Ruck's Trafigura scandal non-reportable super- injunctions - Mr. Justice Maddison and Mr.Justice Sweeney
- 2009.10.15: More illegal Mobile Phones in Prisons, more re-cycled Answers and Policies from the Ministry of (In)Justice
- 2009.10.13: Manchester Airport "child porn" Rapiscan X-ray scanner trial - why now, after all the other trials at airports or railway stations failed ?
- 2009.10.13: Who are the Judges who are granting secret injunctions on behalf of Trafigura and Barclays etc. ?
- 2009.10.10: Is the "Internet Eyes" CCTV web monitoring "game" merely incompetent, or an actual scam ?
- 2009.10.04: Sunday Times: "recently retired C" lambasts David Miliband for the appointment of Sir John Sawers as the new Chief of SIS / MI6
- 2009.10.01: Sir David Pepper, retired boss of GCHQ, joins Thales UK advisory board - familiar photo in the press release
- 2009.10.01: 5 more National Identity Scheme Statutory Instruments - do Thales Group and 3M Company employees realise that they face up to 10 years in prison for any mistakes or strikes?
- 2009.09.28: China tries to block Tor
- 2009.09.28: Compulsory dog ID microchips plan - Yet Another National Database of human names and addresses is not acceptable
- 2009.09.27: Castrol roadside billboard ANPR snoopvertising - another DVLA database privacy scandal
- 2009.09.26: David Mery gets an apology for his unlawful arrest after 4 years - it should have been 4 days at most
- 2009.09.21: RIPA Commissioner and illegal Property Interference by the Environment Agency
- 2009.09.14: Sir Joseph Pilling appointed as National Identity Scheme Commissioner - how can a former Whitehall "Sir Humphrey" be "independent" of the Home Office ?
- 2009.09.14: How can we have confidence that the HMRC online tax return system is safe to use ?
- 2009.09.06: News of the World politics blog: alleged CIA intelligence sharing threat and the Operation Pathway intelligence failure
- 2009.09.06: Why is there a need for a "Big Brother Watch" campaign by the TaxPayers' Alliance ?
- 2009.09.04: MI5 Security Service web site re-fresh - shadow people and foreign language version inconsistency
- 2009.09.01: The Identity Cards Act 2006 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2009 - who will be apponted as the National Identity Scheme Commissioner ?
- 2009.08.27: ACPO eCrime Strategy - no clarity on international Extradition, nor on Collateral Damage to the innocent caused by eCrime investigations
- 2009.08.25: Climate Camp Twits - 6consulting and the Metropolitan Police Service
- 2009.08.25: Snooping on the Climate Camp Swoopers via SMS text messages
- 2009.08.16: International Action Day "Freedom not Fear 2009 - Stop Surveillance Mania!" on 12 September 2009
- 2009.08.13: I'm a Photographer Not a Terrorist !
- 2009.08.10: New Enemies - part 3 of BBC Radio 4 - MI6: A century in the shadows
- 2009.08.02: ACPO policy on ANPR: The Management and Use of Automatic Number Plate Recognition
- 2009.07.31: Home Office: UK identity card image unveiled
- 2009.07.29: Which was worse - the MI6 website spelling mistakes or the MI5 website Cross Site Scripting vulnerability ?
- 2009.07.25: Gordon Brown maintains the dilution the Wilson Doctrine again
- 2009.07.22: RIPA Commissioners Annual Reports for 2008
- 2009.07.21: Terrorism Threat Level SEVERE reduced to SUBSTANTIAL - what is anyone doing any different from before ?
- 2009.07.20: How they do Lawful Interception of mobile phones and broadband internet in Switzerland
- 2009.07.20: Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill - SOCPA to be replaced by Public Order Act powers in 250 metre Area around Parliament Square
- 2009.07.20: Satellite jammers in Iran ?
- 2009.07.17: RIPA Commissioners Annual Reports to be published on Tuesday 21st July 2009, just as Parliament breaks up until 13th October
- 2009.07.15: National Policing Improvement Agency annual report and accounts 2008-09 - mobile handheld computers, ANPR database, DNA database, PNC, IMPACT, Aircell for the Tube, Prüm
- 2009.07.12: BBC Radio 4 - MI6: A Century in the Shadows - Monday July 27th 2009
- 2009.07.11: Metropolitan Police Service incomplete "war on photographers" advice
- 2009.07.11: "suspect your neighbours" Climate of Fear propaganda posters campaign cost £1.7 million, Terrorism Hotline costs £120,000 a year
- 2009.07.10: Reminder: Home Office RIPA CoP Con closes today
- 2009.07.05: Facebook, Mail on Sunday and Sir John Sawers incoming Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service MI6
- 2009.07.02: Alan Johnson lies about ID Cards and £1.2 billion a year identity fraud
- 2009.06.27: UK Cyber Security Strategy - even more bureaucracy, but no financial budget, legislative power or democratic accountibility
- 2009.06.21: Tor relays and exit nodes for Iran, and for the rest of us
- 2009.06.17: NightJack blog versus The Times newspaper - are there wider implications for anonymous sources and writers ?
- 2009.06.17: London School of Economics: Briefing on the Interception Modernisation Programme
- 2009.06.16: Sir John Sawers KCMG appointed as the new Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service MI6
- 2009.06.15: ID Card scheme function creep - sneaky compulsory registration of mobile phones by the back door ?
- 2009.06.14: Will Home Secretary Alan Johnson bother to listen to opponents of the ID Cards scheme, during his supposed review "by the end of the summer" ?
- 2009.06.11: The Guardian reveals details of the mechanics of the failed Hotmail plot by the anti-Gordon Brown faction of Labour MPs
- 2009.06.09: HMRC tax records centre left unguarded by Mapeley, who also run the Passport / ID Card interrogation centre buildings
- 2009.06.09: Postman Patel - Edward Teague - Rest in Peace
- 2009.06.09: Home Office ministers re-shuffled
- 2009.06.08: Who's Watching You ? - GCHQ's Sir David Pepper interviewed - but still too many surveillance topics in one tv documentary
- 2009.06.06: DVLA still selling drivers names and addresses to dodgy Private Wheel Clampers, according to The Times
- 2009.06.04: signonnow@hotmail.co.uk - The Email Address Most Likely To Be Snooped On ? - Labour in crisis: the Hotmail conspiracy
- 2009.06.02: Has any other political blogger been spammed by The Jury Team ?
- 2009.06.02: Steve Moxon - Home Office Immigration whistleblower vindicated by FOIA disclosures about Beverely Hughes
- 2009.06.02: Jacqui Smith to resign as Home Secretary - but when exactly ?
- 2009.06.01: Sir Richard Dearlove, former head of MI6 / SIS worries about lost civil liberties
- 2009.05.30: Richard Tomlinson versus MI6 rapprochement ? Is this due to the amended Terrorism Act ban on eliciting or communicating information about former intelligence agency officers ??
- 2009.05.26: 38 Degrees - will the data protection issues inhibit sign up ?
- 2009.05.25: RAF Innsworth stolen personnel security vetting files coverup
- 2009.05.23: BBC2 tv documentary Who's Watching You ? starts Monday 25th May 9pm
- 2009.05.23: Illegal retention of Police surveillance photos of innocent people
- 2009.05.20: Home Office and research about the (lack of) effectiveness of CCTV in reducing crime
- 2009.05.19: ISC report (again) on the 7th July 2005 London bomb attacks - some jargon explained, but still no blame on MI5 or the Police for intelligence failures
- 2009.05.17: Naming of the MP Expenses whistleblower leak intermediaries ?
- 2009.05.14: SOCA Annual Report 2009/09 - Appendix III: SOCA Reports and Assessments 2008/09 - will these be made public ?
- 2009.05.12: Gordon Brown pretends that "knife crime" is a "new kind of crime"
- 2009.05.12: National Identity Cards Scheme creep - 4 Draft Orders laid before Parliament under the Identity Cards Act 2006
- 2009.05.10: UK computer forensics expert Jim Bates wins High Court appeal against a police search warrant
- 2009.05.09: Operation Algebra child rape convictions in Scotland: open WiFi tracking, digital camera image forensics
- 2009.05.07: Home Office spinning about 6 and 12 years data retention for innocent people's DNA profiles and Fingerprints
- 2009.05.04: GCHQ: our Intelligence and Security mission in the Internet age
- 2009.04.27: Communications Data public "consultation" with only one permitted option
- 2009.04.22: Jacqui Smith: more weasel words about the harassment of innocent photgraphers
- 2009.04.21: BBC Radio 4 iPM - Can U See Me ? CCTV camera spotting and sousveillance
- 2009.04.18: Public Consultation on reforming parts of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000
- 2009.04.18: Damian Green MP arrest - Police tampering with computer evidence or political snooping on civil liberties campaigner Shami Chakrabarti ?
- 2009.04.17: The arrest of opposition Senator Stuart Syvret in Jersey - another Damian Green MP style scandal ?
- 2009.04.15: Operation Pathway arrests - where are the explosives or weapons ?
- 2009.04.04: Re-appointment of the Interception of Communications Commissioner and the Intelligence Services Commissioner
- 2009.03.29: Is Huawei really more of a security risk to the UK Critical National Infrastructure than other foreign telecommunications equipment companies like Cisco or Ericsson ?
- 2009.03.23: How much "war on terror" training for "tens of thousands" of people is the Labour government providing ? As little as 3 hours (including a coffee break)
- 2009.03.23: The state of the UK Database State
- 2009.03.19: OGC finally publish the two Stage Zero Gateway Reviews of the ID Cards programme - 1510 days = 4 years 1 month 18 days after the initial Freedom of Information Act request
- 2009.03.19: Passion and Dalliance blog: Why you need balls of steel to operate a Tor exit node
- 2009.03.17: The Polygraph Rules 2009 - more "Lie Detectors", but not for the politicians and spin doctors
- 2009.03.16: Metropolitan Police terrorism fear Propaganda Poster lies about bombs, reconnaissance and CCTV cameras - updated 25th March 2009
- 2009.03.16: The Data Retention (EC Directive) Regulations 2009 come into force on 6th April 2009
- 2009.03.14: The BBC botnet - UK cyber crime policing is still hopeless
- 2009.03.10: National Security Forum appointees - why is there no pandemic disease or biotech or financial markets or cyber security expertise ?
- 2009.03.08: Weekend newspaper briefing spin that the controversial Data Orders Clause 152 of Coroners and Justice Bill is to be abandoned
- 2009.03.07: Intelligence and Security Committee report for 2007 - 2008 - SCOPE Phase 2 cancelled, even more snooping planned
- 2009.03.03: MPs vote to try to keep their constituency home addresses secret
- 2009.03.02: The Convention on Modern Liberty is over - now what are you going to do to save our freedom and liberty ? Get rid of Clause 152 from the Coroners and Justice Bill
- 2009.02.28: Convention on Modern Liberty video streams
- 2009.02.26: Liberal Democrats - Freedom Bill 2009
- 2009.02.25: Sir David Omand on Protint - 'protected information' data mining of personal sensitive data by intelligence agencies
- 2009.02.23: Practical things to do and bring to the Convention on Modern Liberty
- 2009.02.20: Privy Council Intercept as Evidence Advisory Group interim progress report 9th February 2009
- 2009.02.20: Information Tribunal orders publication of the early ID Cards Programme Gateway Reviews, again
- 2009.02.17: Former MI5 Director General Stella Rimington's interview with La Vanguardia
- 2009.02.16: Where are all the Home Office press releases ? 177 spin doctors but only 5 press releases a week ?
- 2009.02.14: Chilcot Advisory Group on Intercept Evidence (lack of) Progress Report
- 2009.02.12: A couple of photos of some Police officers and VIP vehicles - whilst we still can
- 2009.02.12: Home Office response to Consultation on second phase of EU Comms Data Retention Regulations (internet email, internet telephony etc.) coming into force on 6th April 2009
- 2009.02.12: Sir James Crosby's Review on Identity Assurance being written out of history by Gordon Brown ?
- 2009.02.10: Serious Crime Act 2007 used to harass Indymedia server colocation administrator - updated
- 2009.02.09: Mass photography protest - 11 am Monday 16th February 2009, Metropolitan Police HQ, New Scotland Yard
- 2009.02.08: Sunday Telegraph - British Jobs For British Spies ? MI5 overwhelmed, or lobbying for even more resources ?
- 2009.02.07: Surveillance: Citizens and the State - HoL Constitution Committee report
- 2009.02.06: Exactly what correspondence or communications between MPs and their Constituents is protected by Parliamentary Privilege ?
- 2009.02.05: Lords Constitution Committee report "Surveillance: Citizens and the State" to be published on Friday 6th February 2009
- 2009.02.03: Metropolitan Police seeking MPs Parliamentary privileged emails without a warrant
- 2009.02.03: London Calling Photographers debate - Know your rights: Facing the police crackdown on public photography
- 2009.01.29: Ralph Bendrath: Privacy in Germany 2008: A new fundamental right, a privacy mass movement, and the usual surveillance suspects
- 2009.01.26: How sneakily are Blue State Digital tracking NGO political campaign emails ?
- 2009.01.26: Do not donate money via the Disasters Emergency Committee DEC website
- 2009.01.26: Coroners and Justice Bill - Information Sharing Orders and other controversies
- 2009.01.23: Counter Terrorism Act 2008 - "attempting to elicit information" and secret DNA sampling and data sharing etc. come into force on February 16th 2009
- 2009.01.21: Conservative MP Daniel Kawczynski - parliamentary office searched and constituency correspondence handed over to the Police, without a warrant - updated
- 2009.01.20: A plague on The Sun ?
- 2009.01.20: Lobby your MP to vote against the Freedom of Information (Parliament) Order 2009 this Thursday - update - have we won ?
- 2009.01.17: Rest in Peace: Patrick McGoohan and Sir John Mortimer QC
- 2009.01.15: Coroners and Justice Bill - a further crippling of the Data Protection Act
- 2009.01.14: ICO Guidance on FOIA requests name and address for correspondence - another attack on Anonymity
- 2009.01.10: Communications Data snooping - MI5 Jonathan Evans, BBC, DPP Kier Starmer
- 2009.01.05: Remote Searching of Computer Hard Disks - remember that RIPA etc. do not protect business premises from arbitrary intrusive surveillance, property interference 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 ?
- 2008.12.18: Deja vu yet again - where are the Annual (calendar year) Reports of the RIPA Commissioners ?
- 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 ?
- 2008.08.05: NETCU legal arrest procedure booklet at the Climate Camp
- 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: What does the appointment of an Admiral to the Home Office mean ?
- 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" ?
- 2007.05.19: A List of Shame - Freedom of Information Act (Amendment) Bill - Commons 3rd reading vote details
- 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 ?
- 2007.05.10: The "let's bomb al Jazeera" memo trial
- 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 ?
- 2006.11.23: Project Lantern mobile fingerprint scanners used by the Police - what happens to the digital fingerprint minutiae afterwards ?
- 2006.11.22: Is the Government actually contemplating CCTV surveillance systems Regulation, at last ?
- 2006.11.22: Haloscan comment censorship - "Sorry, Tor users are not allowed to post due to abuse" - even if you are not actually using Tor !
- 2006.11.21: More Treasury financial snooping triplicated red tape
- 2006.11.20: Suspect Nation - tv documentary with Henry Porter, tonight Monday 20th November 2006, 9pm More4
- 2006.11.16: Where is the Partial Regulatory Impact Assessment for Gordon Brown's new financial snooping powers ?
- 2006.11.11: CCTV spying on recycling dump users
- 2006.11.08: Dhiren Barot - life sentence for impractical "movie plot" terrorist plans ?
- 2006.11.06: No. 10 Downing Street live webchat with James Hall, Chief Executive of the Identity and Passport Service
- 2006.11.06: More "see through your clothes" imaging scanner security theatre at Canary Wharf
- 2006.11.03: Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill approved by the House of Lords
- 2006.11.02: "monitored on CCTV 300 times a day" etc. soundbites
- 2006.11.02: "Database State" workshop UCL, 1st November 2006
- 2006.11.01: National Technical Assistance Centre (NTAC) subsumed into GCHQ in April 2006 ?
- 2006.10.29: ReadNotify tracking journalists and their sources, or being used for disinformation ?
- 2006.10.27: Why is there still no ban on the Taleban in the UK ?
- 2006.10.26: Electronic Signatures for Birth and Death Certificates
- 2006.10.25: "A Surveillance Society?" - 28th International Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners' Conference, London 2nd - 3rd November 2006
- 2006.10.25: Why are child Location Based Services exempt from the Protection of Vulnerable Groups Bill ?
- 2006.10.25: G6 EU police ministers meeting at Stratford on Avon - what progress on "terrorist website" censorship etc. since August ?
- 2006.10.24: Police and Justice Bill - Extradition Act and Independent Inspectorates amendments rejected by the Commons
- 2006.10.24: Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Bill - 23 new clauses and 207 amendments rubber-stamped in one day - this is not proper scrutiny
- 2006.10.21: Why is SpyBlog being censored by WebSense ?
- 2006.10.21: A couple of good opinion pieces in media
- 2006.10.19: Parliamentary Written Answer about "privately-owned closed circuit television systems" and data protection
- 2006.10.18: Chancellor Gordon Brown further extends his financial snooping powers
- 2006.10.17: Control Orders scandal - will McNulty resign ?
- 2006.10.17: Can The Times be trusted to report technical details correctly ?
- 2006.10.16: European Commission - censoring "terrorist" web sites - part 4
- 2006.10.16: European Commission "policy" of censoring "terrorist" web sites - part 3
- 2006.10.16: European Commission policy of censoring "terrorist" web sites - part 2
- 2006.10.16: Response from the European Commission regarding the policy of censoring "terrorist" web sites - part 1
- 2006.10.15: Part five of our commentary on Gordon Brown's speech to Chatham House
- 2006.10.15: Part 4 of our commentary on Gordon Brown's speech to Chatham House
- 2006.10.13: Spy Blog moves to a new web host
- 2006.10.12: Gordon Brown - part 3 of the Chatham House speech
- 2006.10.12: Gordon Brown - Chatham House speech part 2
- 2006.10.10: Gordon Brown's Chatham House speech part 1
- 2006.10.10: Gordon Brown's "security" speech - aaargh !
- 2006.10.09: NIR and ID Card scheme "Dobson" report on cost
- 2006.10.06: How much smuggled radioactive material has actually been seized by the authorities ?
- 2006.10.05: Comments and trackbacks disabled for a while
- 2006.10.04: Police and Justice Bill - dual use "hacker tools" - has the Government finally seen sense ?
- 2006.10.04: Database State Workshop @ UCL on 1st November
- 2006.09.29: CCTV surveillance society article in the New Statesman
- 2006.09.28: RFID data protection guidance from the Information Commissioner
- 2006.09.26: Tony Blair repeats his ID Cards nonsense in his farewell speech to the Labour Party Conference
- 2006.09.23: Childrens Index database draft Regulations - what about the Audit Trail logfiles ?
- 2006.09.22: When did Criminal Records Bureau clerks become "Agents" ?
- 2006.09.21: Trying to opt out of the National Health Service medical records centralised database
- 2006.09.19: Repeal or amend Labour's repressive laws ?
- 2006.09.19: Information Commissioner rules that Ofcom must publish more details of the locations of Mobile Phone Base Station Transmitter Masts
- 2006.09.18: Top UK political blogs
- 2006.09.17: Help the NO2ID Campaign track down the forthcoming Passport / National Identity Register "interrogation centres"
- 2006.09.17: Ireland versus the EU Comms Data Retention Directive
- 2006.09.14: 6 British Citizens now being subjected to Control Orders
- 2006.09.14: Terrorist training camp in the New Forest ?
- 2006.09.08: How illegal is FlexiSPY under RIPA 2000 and the Communications Act 2003 ?
- 2006.09.04: Home Office Crime Statistics still "not fit for pupose"
- 2006.09.04: Are Public School Combined Cadet Forces any different from "terrorist training camps" ?
- 2006.09.01: Control Order evil - imposed after a Not Guilty verdict !
- 2006.09.01: Children's Index and the "rich and famous"
- 2006.08.30: RIPA Public Consultations formally close today
- 2006.08.29: Common Assessment Framework (in)Security Architecture - would you trust this to protect sensitive data about your children ?
- 2006.08.22: UK Biobank - where are the privacy and security safeguards ?
- 2006.08.21: Call for nominations for Privacy International's 2006 Stupid Security Awards
- 2006.08.21: Only 11 suspects charged in the "liquid bomb plot" - first use of the catch-all Terrorism Act 2006 section 5 , were too many computers and mobile phones seized ?
- 2006.08.17: EU terrorist intelligence sharing and website censorship soundbites from John Reid and Franco Frattini
- 2006.08.16: Criminal Records Bureau Enhanced Disclosures and the ACPO "step down model" for the Police National Computer
- 2006.08.16: Scrambling for Safety 8 - meeting some interesting and influential people
- 2006.08.16: Some privacy and security improvements to the NetIDme website
- 2006.08.14: Terror Threat Level reduced back to SEVERE - but the airport chaos continues
- 2006.08.11: Transatlantic flight bomb plot - suspiciously detailed reporting in The Times
- 2006.08.10: Threat Level CRITICAL - now what are we meant do ?
- 2006.08.08: Royal Household "phone interception" - 3 arrests, including the News of the World 's "Royal correspondent"
- 2006.08.03: Gordon Brown ducks questions on the UK Government and the SWIFT financial network scandal
- 2006.08.02: NetIDme privacy and security problems continued
- 2006.08.02: NetIDme privacy and security problems - part 1
- 2006.08.02: NetIDme privacy and security problems put children at risk
- 2006.08.01: Threat Level SEVERE - now what are we supposed to do ?
- 2006.07.28: More Tor servers in Berlin than the whole of the UK - donate some bandwidth and set up your own Tor server
- 2006.07.28: Stolen mobile phone blocking hype - this was all allegedly in place back in 2002
- 2006.07.25: Red Mercury terrorism trial results in acquittals
- 2006.07.25: DCA consultation on increased penalties for information traders and journalists under the Data Protection Act
- 2006.07.23: Home Office NOMS leaked email
- 2006.07.22: Sir David Normington's blog and more Home Office leaks - contract for orange boilersuits being considerd, yet again ?
- 2006.07.18: Scrambling for Safety 8 conference details
- 2006.07.17: More proscribed terrorist groups - but still not the Taliban or any Chechen groups !
- 2006.07.17: Home Office seeks Control Orders for ordinary criminals and companies on the periphery of organised crime and even more Data Mining and Data Sharing
- 2006.07.17: More National DNA Database controversy - is the Human Tissue Agency investigating ?
- 2006.07.17: Parliamentary Questions to the Chancellor about the SWIFT scandal
- 2006.07.15: Is mass surveillance ANPR illegal ?
- 2006.07.13: Scrambling for Safety 8 - Monday 14th August 2006
- 2006.07.11: Lords approve amendments to the Police and Justice Bill - Extradition and Computer Misuse amendments passed - UK IT security industry poised on a knife edge
- 2006.07.11: BBC2 9pm - Britain's First Suicide Bombers - but why are they still on the official Bank of England Financial Sanctions list ?
- 2006.07.11: Police and Justice Bill faces major amendments in the Lords today
- 2006.07.09: Sunday Times leaked emails - National Identity Register / ID Card scheme progressing disastrously, just as predicted
- 2006.07.07: Children Index - some database fields announced
- 2006.07.07: Lord Ramsbotham's speech on the Police and Justice Bill plan to reduce the independence of the Prisons Inspectorate etc.
- 2006.07.05: Lords Committee stages of two Bills - LLRB and PJB
- 2006.07.03: Intelligence and Security Committee Report 2006
- 2006.06.30: Clause 3 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill to be abandoned ?
- 2006.06.26: Iraq insurgents intercepting British soldiers' mobile phone data - hype ?
- 2006.06.25: Sealand, a former offshore Data Haven, catches fire
- 2006.06.23: NYT: SWIFT international financial data handed over to US intelligence agencies
- 2006.06.21: Send your views on the UK Terrorism laws to Lord Carlile of Berriew
- 2006.06.19: Police and Justice Bill - Lords Committee stage tomorrow - will "belief" be removed from the "hacking tools" offence or not ?
- 2006.06.18: John Reid caves in to the tabloids over child molester name and address data
- 2006.06.18: Abu Bakr Mansha (IQ 69) is claimed to be the "reliable intelligence source" behind the bungled Operation Volga raid in Forest Gate
- 2006.06.16: Another RIPA consultation - Acquisition and Disclosure of Communications Traffic Data
- 2006.06.15: RIPA news - more officals to be added to the list of authorised snoopers and Sir Charles Mantell appointed as a Surveillance Commissioner
- 2006.06.14: Investigating the UK "Biometric" Passport with ISO 14443 contactless chip
- 2006.06.12: RIPA Part III Consultation and Draft CoP blog
- 2006.06.09: RIPA Part III consultation
- 2006.06.07: Who yelled "anthrax" in the Central Lobby of the Palace of Westminster ?
- 2006.06.07: Minor changes to the Civil Service Code might affect whistleblowers
- 2006.06.06: Tony Blair wants a debate on summary justice and the destruction of civil liberties
- 2006.06.06: Our Question to Tony Blair's online Prime Minister's Questions - the "Wilson Doctrine"
- 2006.06.06: Police and Justice Bill gets its second reading on the House of Lords
- 2006.06.05: GLA report on London July 7th 2005 bomb attacks - not a substitute for a full independent Public Inquiry
- 2006.05.31: Corruption Bill 2006 - untainted by practicality regarding Foreign Officials etc. Will it hamper MI6 intelligence agent recruitment ?
- 2006.05.31: USA-EU Passenger Name Record legal ruling - why isn't US PNR data being handed over to EU Governments on a reciprocal basis ?
- 2006.05.28: Home Office whistleblowers - hints and tips
- 2006.05.27: CCTV surveillance as Anti-Social Behaviour
- 2006.05.26: BBC 2 - The Money Programme: The Real Big Brother
- 2006.05.26: Farid Hilali loses the first European Arrest Warrant extradition Appeal - where is the evidence against him ?
- 2006.05.24: David Mery to question Sir Ian Blair about arbitrary arrests of innocents
- 2006.05.22: Home Office re-shuffle - Tony McNulty and Liam Byrne swap roles as Ministers of State
- 2006.05.19: RIPA Part 3 - "UK Crypto wars" debate to resume ?
- 2006.05.17: What exactly is the Canary Wharf explosive ticket detector trial meant to achieve ?
- 2006.05.16: 2nd day of the HoC Report Stage of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill
- 2006.05.15: Live blogging the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill over at the Save Parliament Blog
- 2006.05.14: Undecided blog topic: NSA domestic comms data or ID Card radio chip danger or DWP/HMRC massive insider identity details frauds
- 2006.05.12: A small concession by the Government on the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill
- 2006.05.11: Representations to Home Secretary John Reid on behalf of Gary McKinnon
- 2006.05.09: Home Office Under Secretaries of State roles and responsibilities published at last
- 2006.05.09: SNP ask about Members of the Scottish Parliament and the "Wilson Doctrine"
- 2006.05.08: Prof. Martin Gill to lecture on CCTV surveillance policy - Wed 17th May, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
- 2006.05.06: Who is now in charge of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill ?
- 2006.05.06: Most Home Office Ministers purged
- 2006.05.05: What now for the Home Office ?
- 2006.05.04: Still no proper constitutional safeguards in the proposed Government Amendments to the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill 2006
- 2006.05.02: How many Home Office websites are there ?
- 2006.04.27: Andy Burnham has another snipe at the LSE Identity Project Report
- 2006.04.25: On trial for terrorism, due to the "fake sheikh" and mythical "Red Mercury" !
- 2006.04.25: Why won't any Home Office Ministers resign over the non-deportation of convicted foreign criminals ?
- 2006.04.25: Home Secretary Charles Clarke's attempted rebuttal of Simon Carr's article on civil liberties
- 2006.04.23: National Identity Register and Medical Data - No !
- 2006.04.21: Special Forces Support Group - what exactly is its Domestric Counter Terrorism role ?
- 2006.04.19: Citizens Information Project - project reports and documents now published
- 2006.04.19: Renew For Freedom - renew your Passport in May 2006
- 2006.04.19: Citizen Information Project merges into the National Identity Register
- 2006.04.18: Police Custody and Case Preparation project - another Home Office IT failure
- 2006.04.13: Terrorism Act 2006 powers came into force today - except for the controversial 28 days detention without charge !
- 2006.04.12: Financial Times reports a promised Government backdown over the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill 2006
- 2006.04.12: High Court Judge rules that Control Orders are a breach of human rights
- 2006.04.11: ACPO "Retention Guidelines for Nominal Records on the Police National Computer, incorporating the Step Down Model" - no data deletion until you are 100 years old ! About 6000 different criminal offences.
- 2006.04.10: DNS problems
- 2006.04.08: David Cameron on ID Cards "I promise you this....in office, we will pull it down."
- 2006.04.07: "Lawyerbots" and "takedown notices" - what about notices under Section 3 of the Terrorism Act 2006 ?
- 2006.04.01: Serious Organised Crime Agency website launch signals a very low priority for Computer Crime
- 2006.03.31: Royal Assent - the Terrorism Act 2006 and the Identity Cards Act 2006 are now law
- 2006.03.31: Liberty Central influences the "computer hacking tools" amendment in the the Police and Justice Bill
- 2006.03.30: The "Wilson Doctrine" retained - but what exactly is its scope today ? What political bugging scandal is Tony Blair hiding ?
- 2006.03.30: Oliver Heald MP writes to Spy Blog re the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill
- 2006.03.30: The final vote on the Identity Cards Bill 2005 - Ayes 301 (including the Conservative front bench) Noes 84
- 2006.03.29: Identity Cards Bill betrayal in the House of Lords
- 2006.03.27: Children Act national database of 12 million children and their parents - "The Information Sharing Index (England) Regulations 2006" - updated with the published SI 973
- 2006.03.27: ACPO publishes "The National DNA Database Annual Report 2004/5"
- 2006.03.24: Another creepy surveillance state public advertisement - Bully Watch London
- 2006.03.23: Terrorism Bill 2005 passes its final vote - the terrorists have won another propaganda victory
- 2006.03.23: Lord Armstrong's amendment to the Identity Cards Bill 2005 - an Opt Out from Compulsion via Designated Documents
- 2006.03.22: Cabinet Office Minister Jim Murphy claims only "about 50 representations" regarding the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill - send him some more
- 2006.03.22: Another "Wilson Doctrine" non-Answer
- 2006.03.21: Commons pong the Identity Cards Bill back to the Lords - Ayes 284 Noes 241
- 2006.03.21: Two new RIPA Commissioners appointed
- 2006.03.20: Police and Justice Bill 2005 - Standing Committee D - virtually no "debate" planned for the amendments to the Computer Misuse Act 1990 - update - new Government amendment to "hacker tools" clause
- 2006.03.20: Contents, 211; Not-Contents, 175 Lords approve dubious Identity Cards Bill 2005 compromise
- 2006.03.17: A case of Can't Cope TV - Police do not have time to analyse video of burglary
- 2006.03.16: Parliamentary ping pong: Terrorism Bill - Commons vote Ayes 296 Noes 237
- 2006.03.16: Parliamentary ping pong: Identity Cards Bill - Commons vote Ayes 292 Noes 241
- 2006.03.16: Andy Burnham's "Chip and PIN" Identity Card verification fantasy
- 2006.03.15: Lords - Commons Identity Cards Bill 2005 ping pong - back to the Commons tomorrow Thursday 16th March 2006
- 2006.03.15: Lords fail to retain the status quo re revocation of British Citizenship criterion
- 2006.03.15: Will Jim Murphy really concede some constitutional safeguards at the Report stage of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill 2006 ?
- 2006.03.14: UK political bloggers do seem to have noticed the awful Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill
- 2006.03.13: Ayes: 310 Noes: 277 Commons overturn the Lords' amendment on the Identity Cards Bill 2005
- 2006.03.13: More Identity Cards Bill Parliamentary ping pong
- 2006.03.12: Sir Ian Blair has secretly recorded a phone conversation with the Attorney General, about the admissability of phone intercept evidence in court
- 2006.03.11: Will the revocation of British Citizenship criterion be further reduced at the Third Reading of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill in the Lords this Tuesday ?
- 2006.03.10: No constitutional safeguard amendments allowed during the Commons Committee stage of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill 2006
- 2006.03.09: More Terrorism Act Section 58 "Thought Crimes" ?
- 2006.03.07: Lords vote on the Identity Cards Bill - 4 wins for the Government, 1 draw, only 1 defeat
- 2006.03.05: Paddington Heathrow Express "see through your children's clothes" scanner trial - "no under 18s"
- 2006.03.01: Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Bill 2006 - when did you stop beating your child ?
- 2006.02.27: Channel 4 TV tonight 8pm - "Dispatches: Stealing Freedom"
- 2006.02.26: Cumulative effect of the Computer Misuse Act amendments in the Police and Justice Bill 2006, the Identity Cards Bill 2005 and the Terrorism Bill 2005
- 2006.02.23: Identity Cards Programme Commercial Directory of 160 companies who have not understood the implications of Clause 29 Tampering with the Register
- 2006.02.23: Computer Encryption and Mobile Phone evidence and the alleged justification for 90 days Detention Without Charge - Home Affairs Select Committee Oral Evidence 14th February 2006
- 2006.02.20: Is this really how Special Branch are gathering "intelligence" on terrorist suspects ?
- 2006.02.18: Second guess the Sir Humphreys
- 2006.02.17: Why not put Home Secretary Charles Clarke's DNA on the National DNA Database ?
- 2006.02.17: Adding the RIPA Commissioners to Schedule 1 of the Freedom of Information Act
- 2006.02.15: Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 Control Order powers renewed without even a vote !
- 2006.02.13: The Government wins the Identity Cards Bill votes in the House of Commons
- 2006.02.13: Gordon Brown hand waves on biometrics and multiple terrorist identities etc.
- 2006.02.13: Tony Blair's plane delayed - will he miss the vote on ID cards ?
- 2006.02.13: Simon Davies versus the Home Office
- 2006.02.12: Gordon Brown interviewed by Andrew Marr - Terrorists and Identity Cards, partial transcript
- 2006.02.11: Does Chancellor Gordon Brown plan to snoop on all your financial transactions ?
- 2006.02.10: More Home Office figures which nobody trusts
- 2006.02.09: CCTV Camera nominated as an "Icon of England"
- 2006.02.09: NO2ID lobby against the Identity Cards Bill 2005 - Monday 13th February 2006
- 2006.02.09: Prime Minister Tony Blair still refuses to answer questions about the "Wilson Doctrine"
- 2006.02.09: Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill - arbitrary powers for Ministers by Order, no exempt Acts, no full public consultation no detailed scrutiny by Parliament
- 2006.02.08: "Wilson Doctrine" - has the Home Secretary tacitly admitted to requests for the tapping of MPs phones ?
- 2006.02.08: Inconsistencies in the case of Abu Hamza compared with other recent convictions
- 2006.02.07: Lords Third Reading of the Identity Cards Bill 2005
- 2006.02.05: Will Simon Davies have to bring legal action against Government Ministers for defamation over the LSE Identity Project Report ?
- 2006.02.05: "Wilson Doctrine" Parliamentary Questions and Early Day Motions
- 2006.02.05: Vodafone Greece "hacked" - is Vodafone UK safe ?
- 2006.02.05: Terrorism Bill 2005 - internet censorship by the Police amended by the Lords to also require a Judge
- 2006.02.03: Ken Livingstone plans to extend ANPR to cover the whole of London within the M25
- 2006.02.02: Andy Burnham's "£1.7 billion identity fraud" figure is as false as the previous £1.3 billion one
- 2006.02.02: "Identity Fraud" figures due to be published by the Home Office later today
- 2006.02.01: Home Office accounting system scandal - the legacy of Sir John Gieve and David Blunkett ?
- 2006.01.30: Clause 31 Tampering with the Register etc. remains unamended after the Lords Report Stage of the Identity Cards Bill 2005
- 2006.01.29: The Cabinet is leaking again
- 2006.01.27: Sir David Normington has replaced Sir John Gieve as Permanent Secretary at the Home Office
- 2006.01.27: 60 days detention without charge defeat - Lords Terrorism Bill 2005 Report stage
- 2006.01.27: Lord Soley calls for a National DNA Database debate ?
- 2006.01.26: PMOS on the "Wilson Doctrine"
- 2006.01.25: Police and Justice Bill 2006 - a pathetic hodge podge
- 2006.01.25: Office of the Deputy Prime Minister displays its ignorance of mobile phone Location Based Services
- 2006.01.23: More details of the ID Card itself come out in dribs and drabs during the Lords Report stage debate
- 2006.01.23: Another defeat for the Government's Identity Cards Bill in the House of Lords - no "super affirmative procedure" - Primary Legislation required for the move to Compulsion
- 2006.01.23: House of Lords vote to remove compulsion to register on the National Identity Register when renewing a Passport etc. before the whole scheme becomes Compulsory
- 2006.01.23: Andy Burnham's pro-ID Cards letter in The Guardian - how can such a short letter contain so many misleading claims ?
- 2006.01.22: Mark Oaten scandal and the Wilson Doctrine
- 2006.01.20: Interception of Communications Commissioner and the Freedom of Information Act
- 2006.01.20: A couple of amendments to the Terrorism Bill 2005 get passed by the House of Lords
- 2006.01.19: ANPR database retention rules - Parliamentary Answer claims 2 years when it is actually 6 years or longer
- 2006.01.18: Prime Minister's Questions on ID Cards, IMPACT system delays , Wilson Doctrine
- 2006.01.17: Charles Clarke absolutely guarantees the security of the National Identity Register and of all other databases which link to it - will he resign when, not if, any of them are breached ?
- 2006.01.16: Spy Blog interview on Radio 5 Live - on the "Wilson Doctrine"
- 2006.01.16: Some Lords' opposition amendments to the Identity Cards Bill
- 2006.01.15: LSE Identity Project report published ahead of Lord's Report Stage of the Identity Cards Bill tomorrow
- 2006.01.15: Sir Swinton Thomas, the Interception Commissioner and the Wilson Doctrine statement in Parliament
- 2006.01.15: The Independent on Sunday: "MI5 will get new powers to bug MPs" - why ?
- 2006.01.13: Two Sefton Council CCTV voyeurs jailed
- 2006.01.12: Why is the Highways Agency selling motorway CCTV images via mobile phone ?
- 2006.01.12: NHS electronic medical records "data spine" privacy and security worries
- 2006.01.11: Heathrow Express "see through your clothes" scanner trial begins - 80 second scan time = queues and missed trains or planes - updated
- 2006.01.10: Hazel Blears defends EU Data Retention via a blog posting
- 2006.01.09: Was that really "Miss Dynamite" in those CCTV images ?
- 2006.01.05: Return of the Defence Advisory (DA) Notice website
- 2006.01.05: The Guardian: "DNA of 37% of black men held by police - Home Office denies racial bias"
- 2006.01.04: National DNA Database continues to expand - updated
- 2006.01.02: Prescott's pie in the sky ?
- 2005.12.31: The Texan experience of "all offences are now arrestable"
- 2005.12.30: Who trusts Home Office crime statistics ? Nobody, according to the Statistics Commission
- 2005.12.30: SI3495 finally published does commence: SOCPA Section 110 Powers of arrest
- 2005.12.29: SOCPA Section 110 Powers of arrest commence on Sunday - or do they ?
- 2005.12.27: Defence Advisory (DA) Notice website censored ?
- 2005.12.23: Terrorism Bill 2005 Tuesday 20th December Lords Committee stage
- 2005.12.22: National ANPR database - guilt by association on the roads
- 2005.12.20: Final day of the Lords Committee stage of the Identity Cards Bill 2005 - no amendments, even to the stupidly drafted Clause 31 Tampering with the Register etc.
- 2005.12.17: Which UK Members of the European Parliament betrayed our liberties over the Data Retention Directive vote ?
- 2005.12.15: 5th day of the Lords' Committee stage of the Identity Cards Bill 2005
- 2005.12.14: The European Parliament has passed the controversial Communications Traffic Data Retention directive
- 2005.12.13: Lords' Committee Identity Cards Bill 2005 Monday 12th Dec - all amendments failed to pass, more name and address update security worries
- 2005.12.10: Human Rights Day - torture is not the only tainted "evidence" or "intelligence"
- 2005.12.09: Children Act 2004 centralised databases to cost £224 million to set up ?
- 2005.12.09: Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill - why should the Home Secretary have the power to revoke your British Citizenship on a whim, by order, without the involvement of a Court ?
- 2005.12.08: Abu Bakr Mansha arrested and charged too soon ?
- 2005.12.08: First conviction under the SOCPA Designated Area around Parliament Square - legal precedent threat to Ceremonies involving Her Majesty the Queen ?
- 2005.12.06: A concession by the Government during the Lords' Committee debate on the Terrorism Bill 2005
- 2005.12.05: Open Letter to the European Parliament on Data Retention
- 2005.12.04: EU Council Data Retention 2nd December 2005
- 2005.11.30: Open Rights group event
- 2005.11.28: DVLA database details sold to criminals - implications for the proposed National Identity Register
- 2005.11.28: Jury unanimously finds Parveen and Zahid Sharif not guilty
- 2005.11.25: EU Data Retention plans implications for UK Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act
- 2005.11.25: How Tony Blair calculated Gigabytes into Feet
- 2005.11.24: Lords 2nd reading of the Terrorism Bill 2005
- 2005.11.22: Council for Science and Technology report - "Better use of personal information: opportunities and risks"
- 2005.11.21: ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) Data Retention guidance by ACPO (Association of Chief Police Officers)
- 2005.11.17: 2nd day of the Lord's Committee stage of the Identity Cards Bill 2005 - more Government attacks on the LSE report
- 2005.11.16: First day of the Lord's Committee stage of the Identity Cards Bill 2005
- 2005.11.16: Babar Ahmad extradition decision approved by the Home Secretary
- 2005.11.14: Exactly how will the "see through your clothes" scanners be tested at Paddington Station ?
- 2005.11.13: Centralised ANPR database to retain innocent motorists vehicle movements for 2 years ?
- 2005.11.11: Asst. Met Commissioner Andy Hayman's letter trying to justify 90 days detention without charge
- 2005.11.10: Charles Clarke's citation of the "no ricin plot" as a "compelling" reason for 90 days detention without charge
- 2005.11.09: The role of senior Police officers in the 90 days detention without charge
- 2005.11.09: Detention without charge period doubled to 28 days - Report stage of the Terrorism Bill 2005
- 2005.11.08: Bichard Inquiry Recommendations Second Progress Report - full implementation of the IMPACT programme drifts out from 2007 to 2010
- 2005.11.08: Report stage Government Amendments to the Terrorism Bill 2005
- 2005.11.07: Report of the Intelligence Services Commissioner for 2004 - Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood
- 2005.11.07: Report of the Interception Commissioner for 2004 by the Rt.Hon. Sir Swinton Thomas is now available online
- 2005.11.07: RIPA Commissioners re-appointed
- 2005.11.07: YouGov poll biased questions on 90 days detention without charge
- 2005.11.06: Tony Blair, the Serious Organised Crime Agency and sex slave Human Trafficking
- 2005.11.05: Charles Clarke's dubious Labour Party opinion poll on terrorism
- 2005.11.04: Sir Swinton Thomas - Annual Report of the Interception Commissioner published, somewhere
- 2005.11.03: Second day HoC Committee - Terrorism Bill 2005
- 2005.11.03: Dept. for Transport to trial "see through your clothes" scanners at London mainline Railway and Tube stations
- 2005.11.03: Encryption and the Terrorism Bill 2005
- 2005.11.02: HoC amendments tabled for the Terrorism Bill 2005
- 2005.11.01: Home Office Minister promises to restrict access to the NIR audit trail
- 2005.11.01: Lord Stevens' speech - 2nd Reading debate in the Lords - seems to be confused about foreign forged passports
- 2005.11.01: Lord Stevens - spurious reference to a forgery case - ID Cards Bill debate in the House of Lords
- 2005.10.31: BBC "Spooks" and MI5 recruitment
- 2005.10.30: UK Terrorism Bill 2005 and COSHH and British political blogs
- 2005.10.29: Libraries under threat from the Terrorism Bill
- 2005.10.28: Another NO2ID Pledge: "I will refuse to register for an ID card and will donate £10 to a legal defence fund but only if 15,000 other people will also make this same pledge"
- 2005.10.26: Terrorism Bill 2005 Second Reading debate in the House of Commons
- 2005.10.24: test
- 2005.10.24: The Guardian explains why it censored the Duncan Campbell "no ricin plot" story
- 2005.10.21: Home Office ID Card "Procurement Strategy Market Sounding" documents
- 2005.10.20: MI5 "don't ask if it was torture" evidence and the non-existent ricin plot
- 2005.10.19: Charles Clarke's Identity Cards Bill Third Reading speech - repeated lies
- 2005.10.18: Identity Cards Bill - Third Reading in the Commons - Ayes:309 - Noes:284
- 2005.10.18: Commons Report Stage of the Identity Cards Bill now complete.
- 2005.10.17: European Civil Liberties Network launches this Wednesday 19th October 2005
- 2005.10.17: Last chance to lobby your Member of Parliament before the remaining Commons stages of the Identity Cards Bill
- 2005.10.15: Terrorism Bill 2005 - comments part 3
- 2005.10.15: Terrorism Bill 2005 - part 2 of our comments
- 2005.10.15: Terrorism Bill 2005 - we are genuinely scared by this evil Bill - part 1
- 2005.10.14: Heather Brooke: "Has anybody in Britain actually read '1984' ?"
- 2005.10.13: Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) recruitment website launched
- 2005.10.10: Home Office proscribes 15 more terrorist organisations , but the Taleban and all Chechen groups still remain legal !
- 2005.10.06: Will the Home Office media spin prejudice some terrorist trials ?
- 2005.10.06: Why is Parveen Sharif on trial again ?
- 2005.10.03: Advertising Standards Authority online complaints form - too much small print - literally !
- 2005.09.29: Former Home Office top Civil Servants get promoted to be Permanent Secretaries at the Ministry of Defence and the Department for Work and Pensions.
- 2005.09.26: Spanish Al Quaeda group court case - judges reject the telephone intercept evidence as "untrustworty"
- 2005.09.24: Andrew Rowe - convicted of "possession for terrorist purposes" - on what real evidence ?
- 2005.09.23: London July attacks - CCTV
- 2005.09.22: Innocent in London - the Met police should apologise to David Mery
- 2005.09.20: Tesco customer databases and the Data Protection Act
- 2005.09.16: Draft Terrorism Bill 2005 - more evil legislation
- 2005.09.15: European Union eCall system in all new vehicles from 2009 - Privacy ? Security ?
- 2005.09.15: Proposed new Home Office laws on the Internet - already covered by existing legislation
- 2005.09.14: Channel 4 news: 3 month detention without charge or trial proposals due to be published tomorrow
- 2005.09.13: Where did Hemant Lakhani get an Igla missile from ?
- 2005.09.12: Home Office paper "Liberty and Security - Striking the Right Balance" - Retention of telecommunications traffic data
- 2005.09.10: Speech by Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, the Director General of the Security Service MI5
- 2005.09.09: Home Office paper "Liberty and Security - Striking the Right Balance" - Introduction
- 2005.09.09: Home Office paper - "Liberty and Security - Striking the Right Balance " - Closed Circuit TV
- 2005.09.09: Home Office paper "Liberty and Security - A modern border control: using passenger name records
- 2005.09.09: Home Office paper "Liberty and Security - Striking the Right Balance" - Biometrics in identity cards and passports
- 2005.09.08: Six NO2ID peaceful protestors arrested for "conspiracy" before they even get near the EU Summit
- 2005.09.07: Home Office ID Fraud / ID Cards disinformation
- 2005.09.05: Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) : non-executive directors appointed by the Home Secretary
- 2005.09.04: The Observer: leaked Foreign office memos "Hearts and Minds and Muslims"
- 2005.09.01: NuLabour "Big Nanny State" consultation - "Cross-Government guidance - sharing information on children and young people"
- 2005.08.21: Another Sunday Times "Climate of Fear" leak - is this the same poison gas / dirty bomb story as last year ?
- 2005.08.18: BBC: Stockwell Tube shooting CCTV not available because the disks had been removed the day before by police investigators
- 2005.08.12: Home Office Identity Cards Programme - Supplier Form - starting off as insecurely as they mean to go on ?
- 2005.08.11: Daily Mirror: leaked report on the Home Office satellite electronic tagging trial failure - exactly as we predicted, except with coverup and media spin as well !
- 2005.08.10: So why was Haroon Rashid Aswat not deported directly to the USA from Zambia ?
- 2005.08.10: So why was Haroon Rashid Aswat not deported directly to the USA from Zambia ?
- 2005.08.09: Home Office "Field Intelligence Officer" being investigated for contact with Spy Blog ?
- 2005.08.08: Data Retention is not a solution to terrorism and crime! - petition to the European Commission and the European Parliament.
- 2005.08.03: Media fact checking - Section 38 or Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000 ? - UPDATE: Section 38B was inserted by Section 117 of the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001
- 2005.08.01: How many "terrorist suspects" do you know ? How many "terrorist suspects" know you ?
- 2005.07.31: David Blunkett back in charge of the Home Office - whilst Charles Clarke goes on holiday ? - or is he ??
- 2005.07.30: Mobile phone data helps to track a London bomb suspect to Rome - no case for Data Retention of phone and internet logfiles
- 2005.07.29: Home Office rough justice against their own staff, updated
- 2005.07.28: BBC2: "The New Al-Qaeda: jihad.com" and Babar Ahmad
- 2005.07.27: Gary McKinnon extradition to the USA - hearing adjourned until October 18th
- 2005.07.23: NO2ID Campaign pledge: "I will actively support those people who, on behalf of all of us, refuse to register for an ID card, and I pledge to pay at least £20 into a fighting fund for them but only if 50000 other people will too"
- 2005.07.22: Association of Chief Police Officers demands for even more legal powers - the politicians must not grant all of these powers, or else the terrorists will have won another victory
- 2005.07.22: Even repressive laws planned ?
- 2005.07.22: Identity Cards Bill finishes Commons Committee Stage
- 2005.07.21: London bombs 21st July - same questions as after the 7th July attacks
- 2005.07.18: Counter Terrorism Bill to be law by December - is it really needed or enforceable ?
- 2005.07.16: Only another 50 pledges needed for the NO2ID "I refuse to register" pledge
- 2005.07.16: Babar Ahmad extradition to the USA decison postponed until September - the Home Office needs even more legal advice
- 2005.07.15: Dr. Zaki Badawi, moderate Islamic cleric in Britain refused entry to the USA
- 2005.07.13: Mandatory Data Retention of Communications Data via the EU yet again
- 2005.07.13: Atlantic Blue media spin
- 2005.07.12: UK Government Databases on all Children in the UK still to go ahead despite heavy criticism by Select Committee
- 2005.07.11: How long will the DNA samples and data from the London Tube and Bus bomb victims be retained for ? Forever ?
- 2005.07.10: Sunday Times "climate of fear" article on alleged MI5 anti-terrorism methods
- 2005.07.09: Insecure Beneath the Lidless Eye of Sauron ? - it is now time to license CCTV surveillance camera operators
- 2005.07.08: Qinetiq Passive Millimetre Wave imagers for the Tube - fact or fiction ?
- 2005.07.08: Identity Cards Committee Stage - only 3 Clauses debated, no amendments
- 2005.07.07: Bombs on London Transport - what use was all the "Secure Beneath the Watchful Eyes" CCTV surveillance ?
- 2005.07.04: Identity Cards Bill Committee Stage - 188 amendments
- 2005.06.30: UK ID card - 10 fingerprint biometrics to be held centrally on the National Identity Register
- 2005.06.30: Parliament Square demonstration restriction zone - a legal loophole ?
- 2005.06.28: British Transport Police seize a Bristol Indymedia server in search of an IP address.
- 2005.06.28: Identity Cards Bill 2nd reading Ayes:314 Noes:283
- 2005.06.28: Tony Blair's press conference transcript - ID Cards
- 2005.06.27: LSE Identity Project report - demolishes the arguments for the particular scheme proposed in the Identity Cards Bill
- 2005.06.27: Home Office Ministers in pre- 2nd Reading Identity Cards Bill media spin
- 2005.06.26: The Sunday newspapers are starting to get the message about the ID Card / Database scheme costs
- 2005.06.24: Home Office estimates for the costs of Iris Scan Biometric readers for E-Borders
- 2005.06.24: Not The Big Brother Awards
- 2005.06.22: UK mobile phone O2 Call Alert service betraying withheld Call ID ?
- 2005.06.21: UK Big Brother Awards postponed - but the party is still on !
- 2005.06.21: The BUPA Seven whistleblowers
- 2005.06.21: Evening Standard: Andrew Gilligan demolishes the £1.3 billion identity fraud hype
- 2005.06.20: EPC Class 1 Generation 2 RFID tag specification available online
- 2005.06.20: POSTPONED: 7th annual UK Big Brother Awards - Thu 23rd June
- 2005.06.19: Whistleblower James Cameron to face charges ?
- 2005.06.18: Even Bigger Brother - NO2ID Public Meeting - Wed 29th June
- 2005.06.18: Write to the Home Office - hardly anyone is speaking to them on ID Card / Database Civil Liberties
- 2005.06.18: London Congestion Charge advanced ANPR camera test
- 2005.06.16: Parliament Square protest permission application Pledge
- 2005.06.16: False Positives for Drugs in the Welsh Assembly
- 2005.06.16: Sir Ian Blair Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police on Biometric ID Cards
- 2005.06.14: Internet bans - Control Orders, Gary McKinnon, who next ?
- 2005.06.13: Stupid Google virus/spyware captcha page
- 2005.06.13: NO2ID "I will refuse to register for an ID Card" pledge signup also via SMS
- 2005.06.11: NO2ID launch a "refuse to register and pledge £10 towards a legal defence fund" online pledge
- 2005.06.09: Tony McNulty brainwashed to repeat the "one third of terrorist suspects use false ( UK ?) identities" propaganda
- 2005.06.08: Another Extradition to the USA - Gary McKinnon - alleged to have "hacked" over 90 US Military systems
- 2005.06.07: No Home Affairs Select Committee = no scrutiny of Identity Cards Bill costs ?
- 2005.06.06: LSE Alternative ID scheme published - where is the Home Office's equivalent description of their plans ?
- 2005.06.05: LSE identity card scheme - have you ever met your Bank Manager face to face ?
- 2005.06.05: Alistair Darling hypes up his mass surveillance road toll plans, again
- 2005.06.01: Farid Hilali - European Arrest Warrant Extradition to proceed
- 2005.05.28: Home Office rough justice against their own staff ?
- 2005.05.28: Snooping on sexually active under 18s
- 2005.05.27: Michael Chertoff US "access to Britons' ID cards" article confusion ?
- 2005.05.26: UK Passport Service Biometric Trial
- 2005.05.25: New UK Identity Cards Bill published - still as flawed as before
- 2005.05.24: UK Identity Cards Bill to be published tomorrow Wednesday 25th May 2005 ?
- 2005.05.24: Andy Burnham repeats the "£1.3 billion identity fraud" propaganda
- 2005.05.21: Read The Bills Act - an idea from the USA which we should also implement in the UK Parliament
- 2005.05.20: Exactly why has NuLabour failed to sign the COE Convention on action against trafficking in human beings ?
- 2005.05.19: ID Cards Bill to be re-introduced after Whitsun ? Sign the NO2ID online petition
- 2005.05.19: Equality Bill - to establish a weak Commission for Equality and Human Rights - massive exemptions for the State
- 2005.05.17: Babar Ahmad hearing finds that extradition to the USA can proceed
- 2005.05.17: NO2ID protest against the re-introduction of the Identity Cards Bill, today during the State Opening of Parliament
- 2005.05.17: John Prescott signs Council of Europe Convention on Terrorism, but not the Convention on Human Trafficking / Sex Slave Trade
- 2005.05.16: Office for National Statistics 2011 Census "consultation" - even more intrusive data topics being floated
- 2005.05.14: Why Is NuLabour not cracking down on the Sex Slave Trade in the UK ?
- 2005.05.13: 40 Bills in the Queen's speech, - top priority for Identity Card / Register Bill ?
- 2005.05.10: Second rank Ministerial appointments - Beverly Hughes and Lord Drayson
- 2005.05.09: More international coverage needed ?
- 2005.05.08: Sunday Times hypes - "radioactive rockets"
- 2005.05.06: NuLabour Cabinet Ministers - Blunkett returns
- 2005.05.05: Lampposts in the 21st Century
- 2005.05.03: NuLabour seem set to return to power, and so does the disgraced David Blunkett
- 2005.04.30: M4 motorway speed camera protest
- 2005.04.29: Control Order secrecy - how does it make us any safer ?
- 2005.04.29: Censorship of Duncan Campbell's "The ricin ring that never was" story
- 2005.04.26: Police National Computer data sold to newspapers - offenders only given a conditional discharge !
- 2005.04.25: NAPO Probation Staff Trades Union calls for the scrapping of Electronic Tags for Home Detention Curfew Orders.
- 2005.04.24: Hushmail encrypted email provider domain compromised
- 2005.04.24: Sunday Times spin: Al-Quaeda swarming scuba suicide attack hype
- 2005.04.22: Home Office Minister Hazel Blears ID Card spin on the Saajid Badat "failed shoebomber" case
- 2005.04.20: Sainsburys petrol stations and Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR)
- 2005.04.19: The Policy Laundering Project
- 2005.04.18: Babar Ahmad extradition case decision adjourned until April 20th
- 2005.04.18: David Blunkett spins in support of Sir Ian Blair on ID Cards etc.
- 2005.04.17: Sir Ian Blair interviewed by Sir David Frost - partial transcript: more terror laws, "bubonic plague threat" and "iris scan" ID cards - partisan comments during the General Election.
- 2005.04.16: Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair meddles in politics over ID Cards and even more catch all anti-terror laws
- 2005.04.16: Home Office bureaucratic incompetence - why didn't Charles Clarke bother to read the Control Orders before signing them ?
- 2005.04.13: Labour Party Manifesto - ID Cards, Biometrics, Centralised Control Databases
- 2005.04.13: More BBC "Ricin plot" report moving feast and extra "Climate of Fear" hype
- 2005.04.13: It can't be a "Ricin terror plot" if there was no Ricin or any other poison - Kamel Bourgass case
- 2005.04.12: Home Office reportedly plans to try sneak in a National Fingerprint Database without Parliamentary approval
- 2005.04.11: Wood Green "Ricin Plot" - no evidence of ricin, no UK press coverage
- 2005.04.11: When is an MP no longer an MP ? Don't forget the RSS or XML Syndication Feeds
- 2005.04.08: Intelligence and Security Committee report 2004-2005 - ongoing secret IT project disasters
- 2005.04.07: Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill rubberstamped by the Commons
- 2005.04.07: Labour Postal Voting Fraud in Birmingham - guess who thinks that the solution must be Identity Cards ?
- 2005.04.06: Partial FOIA disclosure - Home Office Identity Cards Programme team
- 2005.04.05: UK Identity Cards Bill abandoned, for now
- 2005.04.04: CCTV, sex, voyeurism and security at the Scottish Parliament
- 2005.03.31: Contactless RFID Biometric Passports in the UK - same risks as US RFID Passports
- 2005.03.30: Ongoing privacy and security worries about National Health Service medical records
- 2005.03.29: Does Name and Address on ID Card = "information of use to terrorists" ? - the case of Mohammed Abu Baker Mansha
- 2005.03.28: Is Nu Labour bugging the Tories ?
- 2005.03.28: More Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA ) appointments
- 2005.03.25: Automatic Number Plate Recognition national network and centralised database for the UK Police ?
- 2005.03.25: FOIA request internal review for Home Office ID Cards Programme Gateway Reviews
- 2005.03.22: Another electronic tagging catalogue of errors
- 2005.03.22: House of Lords Second Reading of the Identity Cards Bill - our comments
- 2005.03.21: BBC3 tv programme tonight on Electronic Tagging failures
- 2005.03.21: David Blunkett, Indepen Consulting Ltd. and the "Identity" speech.
- 2005.03.21: House of Lords 2nd Reading Identity Cards Bill and the LSE report "The Identity Project: an assessment of the UK Identity Cards Bill and its implications"
- 2005.03.20: Why are NIMBYs more important to the Tories than Human Rights ?
- 2005.03.18: Atlantic Blue anti-terrorist exercise is back on.
- 2005.03.17: Money Laundering and Know Your Customer regulations consultation - needs Privacy input from the public
- 2005.03.14: Where are the Control Orders for the alleged British terrorist suspects ?
- 2005.03.12: Blunkett "comeback speech" on "identity" at the IPPR on Monday 14th March
- 2005.03.11: Prevention of Terrorism Act now law - we are not any safer, and there will be miscarriages of justice
- 2005.03.11: A glimpse of "Control Order" like bail conditions
- 2005.03.11: Kofi Annan warns not to sacrifice human rights in the fight against terrorism
- 2005.03.10: Don't forget the other evil Bills still to be considered by the House of Lords
- 2005.03.10: Prevention of Terrorism Bill - ping pong
- 2005.03.09: Prevention of Terrorism Bill amended by the House of Lords - it is still a bad and impractical Bill.
- 2005.03.08: Local Council operated CCTV surveillance function creep for "directed surveillance" by the Police and Customs & Excise.
- 2005.03.07: Farid Hilali European Arrest Warrant extradition drags on.
- 2005.03.07: Information Commissioner memorandum expresses concerns over the Children Act 2004 section 12 Information databases
- 2005.03.06: Sir John Stevens News of the World article adds to the "climate of fear"
- 2005.03.03: "Identity Fraud" does NOT "cost the UK £1.3 billion a year"
- 2005.03.03: Identity Cards Bill - provisionally starts its progress in the House of Lords on Monday 21st March 2005
- 2005.03.02: Babar Ahmad in court today, fast track extradition to the USA without prima facie evidence
- 2005.02.28: Prevention of Terrorism Bill - Third Reading - Ayes: 272 Noes: 219
- 2005.02.28: Contempt of Parliament - Prevention of Terrorism Bill Committee Stage
- 2005.02.28: Racial profiling at Heathrow Airport Terminal 4 "see under your clothes" imaging scanner ?
- 2005.02.28: Home Office FOIA request for meeting diaries, agenda etc. of the Identity Cards Programme Team - "further consideration is requred" after 20 working days
- 2005.02.25: More evil implications of the Prevention of Terrorism Bill
- 2005.02.25: Charles Clarke quoted on Identity Cards and the EU Schengen border control agreement
- 2005.02.24: Public CCTV surveillance schemes do not cut crime, or the fear of crime
- 2005.02.24: Tyrannical governments are worse than mere terrorist attacks
- 2005.02.24: FOIA internal review requested re OGC Gateway Reviews of the Identity Cards scheme.
- 2005.02.22: Prevention of Terrorism Bill - "Control Orders" - the terrorists are laughing at us
- 2005.02.22: FOIA "disclosure" - OGC Gateway Reviews of the Home Office's Identity Cards scheme
- 2005.02.21: The rush towards a police state - Prevention of Terrorism Bill - First Reading Tuesday, all Commons stages to be completed on Monday !
- 2005.02.21: "Control Orders" political deal still in the backroom
- 2005.02.18: "Control Orders" political deal set for this afternoon
- 2005.02.13: Ambulance chasing after Al Quaeda's terrorist funds
- 2005.02.12: FOIA request reply from DfES re OECD PISA study
- 2005.02.11: Identity Cards Bill Third Reading - detailed voting breakdown
- 2005.02.10: Identity cards Bill - Third Reading debate Ayes 224 - Noes 64 - presumably the Conservatives did mostly abstain.
- 2005.02.10: Identity Cards Bill - another half hour of debate
- 2005.02.10: Identity Cards Bill, another 3/4 hour of debate on only a single point of substance
- 2005.02.10: Identity Cards Bill Report stage - first half hour of debate
- 2005.02.10: Identity Cards Bill - today is the last chance for MPs to show real opposition
- 2005.02.09: Letter from ONS re our FOIA request about the Citizen Information Project
- 2005.02.06: Sir Ian Blair, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, GMTV interview transcript on Identity Cards and House Arrest
- 2005.02.05: Evening Standard on ID Cards and spies - misses the risks of biometrics
- 2005.02.04: Joint Committee on Human Rights asks for clarification on the Identity Cards Bill.
- 2005.02.03: Department for Work and Pensions reply to our FOIA request after 18 days
- 2005.02.01: OGC Gateway Reviews of the Identity Cards Programme FOIA request - 15 more working days "to consider the balance of the public interest"
- 2005.01.29: Johns Hopkins University and RSA Labs demonstrate RFID token cracking and cloning with cheap FPGA hardware.
- 2005.01.28: Identity Cards Bill Commons Report and 3rd Reading provisionally set for Thursday 10th February
- 2005.01.28: Home Office Identity Cards Programme, meetings with the private sector and consultancy costs
- 2005.01.27: Charles Clarke announces "Control Orders" for British citizens; no change in the use of intercept evidence
- 2005.01.26: FOIA request to Department for Work and Pensions - response for clarification after 13 working days
- 2005.01.26: Identity Cards Bill HoC Committee stage - more "knives"
- 2005.01.26: Tesco extends its item level DVD RFID tagging trials
- 2005.01.24: ARCH need money to help challenge the Children Act 2004
- 2005.01.23: FOIA request to the Home Office Identity Cards Programme meeting diaries, agendas, minutes, expenses etc
- 2005.01.23: FOIA request: Office for National Statistics re Citizen Information Project
- 2005.01.23: Two Freedom of Information Act requests sent to the Department for Education and Skills:
- 2005.01.21: Will President Bush protect us from the UK Government's creeping Big Brother / Nanny State ?
- 2005.01.21: Some Biometric technology details revealed during the Identity Cards Bill Committee Stage
- 2005.01.20: House of Commons Standing Committee B first 2 sessions of debate on Amendments to the Identity Cards Bill
- 2005.01.19: Ofcom FOIA request reply after only 8 days.
- 2005.01.18: Identity Cards Bill - 184 tabled Amendments - but nothing about Section 31 "10 years in prison for going on strike or making an IT mistake near the National Identity Register"
- 2005.01.18: VeriChip RFID implant evil spreads to Glasgow
- 2005.01.13: Pathetic UK Government response to the NO2ID online petition opposing the ID Card and biometric National Identity Register scheme
- 2005.01.13: Why was flight BA 175 disrupted by a "false positive" name match ?
- 2005.01.12: GeneWatch UK call for stronger privacy and human rights safeguards regarding the UK National DNA Database
- 2005.01.12: Why is the Forensic Science Service being privatised ?
- 2005.01.12: Home Office Bichard Inquiry progress report: IMPACT, PLX , Police Data CoP, spin
- 2005.01.11: Insecure web cameras via Google search - what about the SCADA and home automation systems ?
- 2005.01.10: Sir Stephen Lander, SOCA, setting priorities via tabloid column inches
- 2005.01.07: DWP Longitudinal Study update - did our FOIA request suggestion prompt this, or is it mere coincidence ?
- 2005.01.06: SMS disaster alert and warning systems - don't do it !
- 2005.01.05: Sefton council employees investigated for CCTV surveillance camera abuse ?
- 2005.01.05: Bill Jeffry succeeds Sir David Omand as Security and Intelligence Coordinator
- 2005.01.04: FOIA requestors to be treated as suspects by the Police ?
- 2005.01.03: FOIA request sent for OGC Gateway Reviews of the Identity Cards Programme
- 2005.01.02: British Army Intelligence Corps website spin
- 2004.12.30: Suggestions wanted for UK Freedom of Information Act requests
- 2004.12.30: NO2ID Campaign public bulletin board discussion forum
- 2004.12.29: UK Parliament website down for at least 8 hours
- 2004.12.27: Where is the tsunami tidal wave warning system for the North Atlantic ?
- 2004.12.26: CBRN preparedness - What exactly is the Government Decontamination and Recovery Service ?
- 2004.12.22: Are your credit card details safe? Network Solutions .com domain name purchase or renewal only allowed via obsolete SSL version 2
- 2004.12.21: Home Office progress report on action after the Bichard Inquiry due tomorrow
- 2004.12.21: Identity Cards Bill gets its Second Reading
- 2004.12.20: Charles Clarke tries to defend ID Cards in The Times
- 2004.12.18: EPCglobal Generation 2 UHF RFID tag standard agreed - but no encryption !
- 2004.12.17: Charles Clarke on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme - transcript and kremlinology
- 2004.12.16: Prime Minister's Question Time - ID Card question
- 2004.12.15: Charles Clarke replaces David Blunkett as Home Secretary
- 2004.12.13: 2nd Reading of the Identity Cards Bill next Monday 20th December 2004
- 2004.12.13: Civil Contingencies Act consultation announced.
- 2004.12.12: Knives out for the knife "ban" - more diversionary public relations spin from Home Secretary David Blunkett
- 2004.12.12: Identity Cards Bill blog - clause by clause analysis and comments
- 2004.12.09: Yet Another Indymedia server seizure Parliamentary Written Answer - still no action by the Home Office
- 2004.12.08: Hammersmith Bus Station metal detector trial - more ineffective "security theatre" ?
- 2004.12.03: European Union Data Retention - even more draconian plans for flat rate services etc.
- 2004.12.03: CCTV hype in Doncaster
- 2004.12.01: Pixellation of the faces of children on the front page of national daily newspapers
- 2004.11.30: Identity Card Bill - 10 years in jail for going on strike or accidentaly causing a systems crash ?
- 2004.11.29: Identity Card Bill due today - the Home Office public relations spin continues
- 2004.11.28: Peter Hain questioned on ID Cards - same old "unforgeable biometrics" disinformation
- 2004.11.26: Lobby your Member of the European Parliament: "An Open Letter to the European Parliament on Biometric Registration of all EU Citizens and Residents"
- 2004.11.26: NO2ID public meeting, opposing the Identity Card scheme, Tuesday 30 November 2004
- 2004.11.26: Attorney General Lord Goldsmith tries to censor the web - another attack on the jury system.
- 2004.11.24: SOCA spin - How much does Serious and Organised Crime cost the UK ? £40 billion or £20 billion ?
- 2004.11.23: Daily Mail terrorist plot report hype and the media bandwagon
- 2004.11.22: Transcript of the David Blunkett interview on the Jonathan Dimbleby Programme, Nov 21st 2004
- 2004.11.21: It is a Sunday, so it must be time for more spin from David Blunkett
- 2004.11.19: Babar Ahmad extradition - the US authorities seem to be clutching at straws
- 2004.11.19: Civil Contingencies Act 2004 gets Royal Assent
- 2004.11.18: Marks & Spencer RFID tags - Marble Arch store, London , November 2004
- 2004.11.18: NO2ID demonstration photos, Wednesday 17th November 2004, Royal Society, Carlton House Terrace, London
- 2004.11.18: Computer Misuse Act statistics - still rarer than murder , apparently
- 2004.11.18: Home Secretary still dithering on the admissability of "intercept evidence"
- 2004.11.16: CCTV on London Buses again used to hunt down innocent "witnesses" rather than actual criminals
- 2004.11.16: Human Tissue Act 2004 and Children Act 2004 now have Royal Assent
- 2004.11.15: Indymedia server seizure scandal - 10 Parliamentary Questions but still no Statement from the Home Office
- 2004.11.14: NO2ID protest David Blunkett Wed 17th Nov
- 2004.11.13: BBC Radio 4 Today programme interview with Home Secretary David Blunkett
- 2004.11.08: Children Bill - Commons Amendments in the House of Lords on Wednesday
- 2004.11.08: Civil Contingencies Bill - Report stage in the House of Lords on Tuesday and Wednesday
- 2004.11.08: Heathrow Terminal 4 "see under your clothes" X-Ray scanner
- 2004.11.04: Children Bill Third Reading in the Commons - controversial Information Database powers unamended.
- 2004.11.04: Still no clear statement about the Indymedia server seizure scandal, despite yet another Answer to a Parliamentary Question
- 2004.11.04: More CCTV surveillance camera subsidies - why bother ?
- 2004.11.03: NO2ID Online Petition - http://www.no2id-petition.net/
- 2004.11.03: £15 million to be spent on more Police Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) systems
- 2004.11.02: Festung Parliament - missing visitors' passes
- 2004.10.31: Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act - power to enter and remain on premises without a warrant
- 2004.10.31: Children Bill reaches Report Stage - "smacking" gets more headlines than "Big Nanny" databases
- 2004.10.29: Citizen Information Project and National Identity Register plans
- 2004.10.28: Yet another Indymedia server seizure scandal Parliamentary Question - UK "did not receive any representations from foreign governments"
- 2004.10.28: Another Parliamentary Question about the Indymedia server seizure scandal
- 2004.10.27: Home Office response to HAC report and Draft ID Card Bill consultation - Sir Humphrey would be proud
- 2004.10.27: Sunnybank Preparatory School classroom webcasting surveillance - where are the safeguards ?
- 2004.10.27: DVLA database compromised by animal rights extremists
- 2004.10.25: ASBO and old video clips
- 2004.10.22: Civil Contingencies Bill - Lords Committee stage
- 2004.10.21: Indymedia server scandal - "no UK law enforcement agencies were involved"
- 2004.10.19: Abu Hamza charged in the UK at last - 16 charges but only 1 minor terrorism charge
- 2004.10.14: Festung Parliament and the Civil Contingencies Bill
- 2004.10.10: Seizure of IndyMedia servers in London compromises the NHTCU Confidentiality Charter
- 2004.10.07: Project Semaphore and e-borders - how much is this going to cost ?
- 2004.10.06: Civil Contingencies Bill
- 2004.10.04: "Dirty Bomb" plot - smoke detector hype
- 2004.10.01: ID Card leak mole hunt suspect arrested
- 2004.09.26: GSM Mobile Phone Location Based Services - tracking children and vulnerable adults - Code of Practice announced but not yet public
- 2004.09.25: Is the DA notice "voluntary censorship" scheme going to be extended ?
- 2004.09.22: Why are our TV media terrorising us with the Ken Bigley video ?
- 2004.09.22: Who really believes that Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens is a likely aeroplane hijacker ?
- 2004.09.20: NO2ID campaign launched to the public
- 2004.09.17: Sir Andrew Leggatt re-appointed as Chief Surveillance Commissioner
- 2004.09.16: Does Parliament need fewer armed Police but more "nightclub bouncers" ?
- 2004.09.15: Protestors in the Chamber of the House of Commons - for less than 10 seconds
- 2004.09.14: David Blunkett hints at reducing surveillance safeguards under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act.
- 2004.09.14: James Cameron - Foreign Office emails and reports released under the Data Protection Act.
- 2004.09.13: "Security incident" at Buckingham Palace - overhyped
- 2004.09.12: Hunting Bill - dogs banned but not leopards, lions or horses.
- 2004.09.08: Met Police spy Ghazi Kassim let off too lightly
- 2004.09.07: Political spin over whistleblower Steve Moxon's book
- 2004.09.03: Home Secretary David Blunkett cannot even spell the word "privacy"
- 2004.09.03: Blunkett's "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" satellite tracking pilot
- 2004.09.01: NO2ID campaign official launch
- 2004.09.01: Emmanuel Goldstein arrested in New York
- 2004.09.01: Abu Hamza "de-arrested" - presumably insuffcient evidence of actual Terrorism
- 2004.08.29: Home Secretary David Blunkett tries to censor whistleblower Steve Moxon's book
- 2004.08.27: Serious Organised Crime Agency appointments
- 2004.08.27: GPS satellite train door failures
- 2004.08.27: When was Abu Hamza able to commit alleged terrorist offences in the UK, whilst under surveillance ?
- 2004.08.24: CCTV on buses does not prevent murder - again.
- 2004.08.23: When did we suddenly get *too many* Human Rights ?
- 2004.08.20: Why is there no public apology and financial compensation for false arrest as a terrorist suspect ?
- 2004.08.18: Babar Ahmad and PGP encryption
- 2004.08.17: Terrorist suspects arrested too soon ?
- 2004.08.17: "Nothing to hide, nothing to fear" ?
- 2004.08.08: Why is Babar Ahmad being extradited to the USA and not being charged in the UK ?
- 2004.08.08: 20 years of "DNA fingerprints" - who should access my genetic data without my permission ?
- 2004.08.08: Al Quaeda arrests in UK and Pakistan - more suspicious details leak
- 2004.08.05: Is Heathrow really under more terrorist threat than usual ?
- 2004.08.04: Blog Comment Spam
- 2004.08.04: Whistleblower Steve Moxon's new book
- 2004.08.01: X-ray imaging "under the clothes" of children
- 2004.08.01: "Lie detectors", but not for politicians.
- 2004.08.01: Whistleblower Steve Moxon sacked ?
- 2004.07.31: New laws against animal extremists threaten the human right to protest and assemble.
- 2004.07.30: No2ID comment on the Home Affairs Committee report on Identity Cards
- 2004.07.30: Home Affairs Committee report on Identity Cards
- 2004.07.28: Big Brother Awards 2004 tonight
- 2004.07.25: Report of the Interception of Communications Commissioner for 2003 - Sir Swinton Thomas
- 2004.07.25: Report of the Intelligence Services Commissioner for 2003 - Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood
- 2004.07.25: New UK Special Forces Reconnaissance and Surveillance Regiment
- 2004.07.24: Is the £25 million bounty for animal rights terrorists illegal and counterproductive ?
- 2004.07.23: Retention and analysis of DNA samples - even if you are innocent
- 2004.07.21: William Ehrman named as charman of the JIC, then on to be Ambassador to China
- 2004.07.21: Blunkett e-border and ID Card nonsense
- 2004.07.20: Alistair Darling's satellite tracking road toll plans - another Big Brother surveillance system
- 2004.07.20: Blunkett and satellite tags again
- 2004.07.20: Blair and Blunkett promise 15% crime reduction in 3 years - what about computer crimes ?
- 2004.07.20: Draft ID Card Bill consultation ends today
- 2004.07.19: Operation Horizon - Civil Defence
- 2004.07.16: Farid Hilali in court - unanswered questions
- 2004.07.15: Ongoing VeriChip evil in Mexico
- 2004.07.13: "John Scarlett address" queries
- 2004.07.12: Festung Parliament concrete blocks
- 2004.07.10: Are you your Brother's Keeper ? DNA and email guilt by association
- 2004.07.08: Citizen Information Project population register procurement begins
- 2004.07.08: How safe is SafetyText ?
- 2004.07.07: Farid Hilali video link Bow Street Magistrates Court appearance.
- 2004.07.07: "Liberty and Terror" talk @ ICA July 12th 2004
- 2004.07.06: Moral and Legal Dilemma
- 2004.07.05: Farid Hilali not delivered to court - how can a Category A terrorist suspect be overlooked in Belmarsh prison ?
- 2004.07.05: Yet Another GPS Tagging Trial
- 2004.07.04: Annual Report of the Chief Surveillance Commissioner
- 2004.07.04: EU central DNA and Biometrics database
- 2004.07.02: Why so few arrests with supposedly "intelligence led" Terrorism Act stops and searches ?
- 2004.07.01: Farid Hilali spin - how were the "voice analysis" samples obtained ?
- 2004.06.30: Is mobile phone "evidence" enough to extradite Farid Hilali as a terrorist ?
- 2004.06.30: So has whistleblower Steve Moxon been sacked or not ?
- 2004.06.30: Intelligence and Security Committee report 2003-2004 - problems with SCOPE and no progress on Critical National Infrastructure protection.
- 2004.06.29: Human Tissue Bill Third Reading - what about RNA ?
- 2004.06.29: Where is the DWP-IR Longitudinal Study Ethics Committee ?
- 2004.06.25: Human Tissue Bill destroys safeguards for DNA analysis without consent
- 2004.06.23: Home Secretary David Blunkett promises even more Centralised Databases in response to the Bichard Inquiry report
- 2004.06.23: Bichard Inquiry finds "systemic and corporate" failings - is the Home Office more culpable than Humberside Police ?
- 2004.06.21: Festung Parliament
- 2004.06.20: Have the pundits actually bothered to read the EU Constitution ?
- 2004.06.20: UK Big Brother Awards 2004 - Wed July 28th
- 2004.06.20: El Al anti-missile flares threat to Heathrow ?
- 2004.06.19: HAC oral evidence 15th June 2004 uncorrected oral evidence transcript now online
- 2004.06.17: Security procedures not followed by the Speaker of the House of Commons
- 2004.06.17: Biometric Passport delays
- 2004.06.16: www.spy.org.uk offline for 12 hours due to "a power failure"
- 2004.06.15: HAC oral evidence on ID Cards 8th June published
- 2004.06.15: Immigration visa scandal whistleblower James Cameron punished by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- 2004.06.13: EU Commission whistleblower elected to EU Parliament
- 2004.06.13: Smear tactics against immigration scandal whistleblower James Cameron ?
- 2004.06.07: Children Bill Clause 8 - Information databases - not amended by the House of Lords
- 2004.06.04: Guilty by CCTV until proven innocent
- 2004.06.03: Are all UK SMS text messages being intercepted ?
- 2004.05.31: EU Commission betrays Passenger Name Record data privacy to USA despite EU Parliament
- 2004.05.31: Harry Potter audiences spied on via Night Vision
- 2004.05.30: USA Minuteman ICBM Permissive Action Links deliberately circumvented in the 1970s
- 2004.05.28: Blunkett satellite tracking hand waving
- 2004.05.28: Alex Allan, former e-Envoy, returns in "Sir Humphrey" role
- 2004.05.27: Abu Hamza arrest hype
- 2004.05.26: England Football Fans - guilty by association until proven innocent
- 2004.05.25: UK Government guillotines debate on Emergency Powers -> Third Reading of Civil Contingencies Bill
- 2004.05.24: PA Consulting awarded ID Card scheme "Development Partner" contract by UK Home Office
- 2004.05.21: "Mistaken Identity" Draft ID Card Bill debate report
- 2004.05.21: Whistleblower update ?
- 2004.05.20: Why were the Parliament "purple flour" protestors treated as terrorists ?
- 2004.05.20: Security failures at the Houses of Parliament
- 2004.05.19: YouGov poll shows deep opposition to Draft ID Card Bill plan
- 2004.05.18: Heathrow robbery attempt is NOT the biggest in Britain
- 2004.05.17: National Consumer Council seminar on RFID tags in retail.
- 2004.05.15: Photo ID on internal UK flights
- 2004.05.14: Maxine Carr ID
- 2004.05.11: Abuse of VIPER - Video Identity Parade Electronic Recording
- 2004.05.07: Blunkett and Browne ID card quotes before the HAC
- 2004.05.06: Privacy legal precedent
- 2004.05.06: John Scarlett, MI6 and the internet
- 2004.05.05: Speakers for "Mistaken Identity" ID Card meeting
- 2004.05.05: Home Affairs Committee ID Card soundbites
- 2004.05.01: Voyeurism is now a criminal offence in the UK
- 2004.04.30: New MI5 website - SSL encryption at last !
- 2004.04.30: EU Framework Directive proposal for a blanket 12 month Data Retention minimum
- 2004.04.27: "Mistaken Identity" - free public meeting on ID Cards, Wed 19th May @ LSE
- 2004.04.27: Protest against the "Big Nanny" Children Bill - Tues 11th May
- 2004.04.26: Draft ID Cards Bill - initial thoughts
- 2004.04.26: David Blunkett interviewed by Sir David Frost
- 2004.04.24: 10 years in jail for "possession of a false document" ?
- 2004.04.23: Bad smell in the House of Commons - ?2 million wasted on a "security screen"
- 2004.04.22: Detica MORI ID Cards poll spin
- 2004.04.21: EPCglobal UHF Generation 2 RFID tag standard
- 2004.04.16: Back from holiday
- 2004.04.12: Ryogens - the prototype for the Children Bill Big Nanny database ?
- 2004.04.07: Passive Millimetre Wave Radar Cameras - Floodlights on every Lamp Post ?
- 2004.04.07: Hype: "Osmium Tetroxide gas attack on the Tube foiled"
- 2004.04.03: USA now wants all UK visitors' fingerprints and facial scans
- 2004.04.01: Tony Blair pressing ahead with ID Cards claiming "no longer a civil liberties objection"
- 2004.04.01: HAC Inquiry into ID Cards oral evidence session due on 20th April 2004
- 2004.03.30: X-Ray "see under your clothes" surveillance
- 2004.03.30: Blair wants "individually targeted CCTV"
- 2004.03.30: SOCA White Paper finally published online
- 2004.03.30: Is the Shadow Home Secretary's email being monitored ?
- 2004.03.29: Open Letter to ICAO against Biometric Passports
- 2004.03.29: European Evidence Warrant consultation - data retained forever ?
- 2004.03.29: Where is the SOCA White Paper ?
- 2004.03.26: Tracking Children - public meeting LSE 6th April 2004
- 2004.03.25: EU anti-terror scope creep
- 2004.03.24: ID Card audit trails
- 2004.03.23: EU anti-terrorism confusion
- 2004.03.22: EU Communications Data Retention standards soundbite
- 2004.03.21: ID Card leaking season reopens
- 2004.03.18: DWP-IR Longitudinal Study racial profiling
- 2004.03.17: Oyster Card privacy policy
- 2004.03.17: "Portable scanning device" on the Tube ?
- 2004.03.15: Random stops & searches on the Tube ?
- 2004.03.15: Train Marshals - guns on the Tube ?
- 2004.03.14: Mobile Phone bomb prevention ?
- 2004.03.14: Mobile Phones and the Madrid bombs
- 2004.03.13: Homeland security - Defence & Home Affairs Committees, 2nd March 2004
- 2004.03.11: Bombs in Madrid
- 2004.03.11: Steve Moxon search engine spin
- 2004.03.11: Whistleblowers
- 2004.03.10: Commercial web spider blacklists
- 2004.03.09: HAC ID Cards oral evidence 24th February 2004 now online
- 2004.03.09: Media giving terrorists the oxygen of publicity
- 2004.03.07: Media finally notice the MI5 height restriction "story"
- 2004.03.07: Is David Blunkett flying on BA223 ?
- 2004.03.04: Big Nanny database ?
- 2004.02.26: Yet Another Home Office "Consultation"
- 2004.02.26: Blunkett in Parliament Wed 25th Feb 2004
- 2004.02.24: HAC oral evidence session 24th Feb 2004
- 2004.02.24: HAC ID cards oral evidence from 10th Feb 2004 now online
- 2004.02.24: Home Secretary's remarks on reduced burden of proof & on ID Cards
- 2004.02.23: RFID blocker tag set to be unveiled
- 2004.02.22: MI5 expansion story spin
- 2004.02.21: MI5 the Security Service set to expand by 50%
- 2004.02.20: BA223 name changes to BA293
- 2004.02.19: Work and Pensions & Inland Revenue Longitudinal Study
- 2004.02.19: Bichard Inquiry "soft intelligence" and criminal records
- 2004.02.16: DVLA electronic Driving Licence consultation
- 2004.02.16: Foiling the Oyster Card
- 2004.02.13: HAC ID cards oral evidence 3rd Feb transcript online
- 2004.02.12: BA 223 to be cancelled yet again
- 2004.02.10: HAC oral evidence ID Cards - 10th Feb 2004
- 2004.02.09: Serious Organised Crime Agency announced
- 2004.02.09: New British "Organised Crime Agency", trust, turf wars and privacy issues
- 2004.02.04: Passport Office price increases and data sharing
- 2004.02.04: HAC oral evidence on ID cards 3rd Feb - Information Commissioner
- 2004.02.01: UK passenger profiling
- 2004.01.31: BA233 cancelled too late ?
- 2004.01.31: Why has BA223 not been cancelled ?
- 2004.01.28: No Passive Millimetre Wave Radar Cameras deployed by the Metropolitan Police
- 2004.01.28: HAC ID Cards oral evidence sessions 3rd & 10th Feb 2004
- 2004.01.28: Home Office ID Cards Programme job vacancy
- 2004.01.28: Adjournment debate in Parliament on RFID tags
- 2004.01.27: Under "cyber attack" from the USA
- 2004.01.26: British sky marshals deployed
- 2004.01.26: Faked digital photo timestamp evidence
- 2004.01.22: Terrorism Act detention without charge extended to 14 days
- 2004.01.22: RFID adjournment debate in Parliament
- 2004.01.15: Michael Cross "nutter" article in the Guardian
- 2004.01.13: Unsigned Ministerial press releases and statements
- 2004.01.12: UK is spied on by 20% of the world's CCTV cameras
- 2004.01.11: Shambolic anti-terror checks blamed on incompatible word processing file formats
- 2004.01.10: Smear campaign against RFID privacy activist ?
- 2004.01.10: BA223 only delayed by 26 minutes !
- 2004.01.09: BA223 delayed by 1 hour 48 minutes
- 2004.01.08: BA223 delayed again by 3 hours 40 minutes
- 2004.01.08: Written Evidence to the HAC Inquiry into ID Cards
- 2004.01.08: USA visas and Biometric Passports
- 2004.01.08: USA bans airline toilet queues
- 2004.01.07: BA223 delayed by 1 hour 40 minutes
- 2004.01.07: UK Sky Marshal policy worries
- 2004.01.07: Civil Contingencies Bill 2004 now published
- 2004.01.06: BA223 takeoff delayed by only 2 hours
- 2004.01.06: Police camera phones hunt graffiti
- 2004.01.05: BA223 "security jinx" flight delayed yet again and again
- 2004.01.05: USA Biometric immigration checks begin
- 2004.01.02: BA223 passengers blacklisted ?
- 2003.12.31: Sky Marshals and Blacklists
- 2003.12.30: Almanacs and terrorism
- 2003.12.27: HAC oral evidence on ID Cards now online
- 2003.12.26: David "Mastermind" Blunkett - an "intellectual pygmy" ?
- 2003.12.26: Air France false alarms
- 2003.12.26: Law reviews
- 2003.12.22: META Group FUD on RFID tags
- 2003.12.22: CCTV does not deter drunken street violence
- 2003.12.18: Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 - Review Committee Report
- 2003.12.17: Soham Murders, Mobile Phones and Data Protection
- 2003.12.11: Oral Evidence on ID Cards
- 2003.12.10: Home Affairs Committee on ID Cards
- 2003.12.09: Central Biometric ID Database woes
- 2003.12.03: UK Passport Office Biometrics 10,000 user trial
- 2003.12.03: Shami Chakrabarti - director of Liberty online 5th December 2003
- 2003.12.03: ISP problems - lost comments
- 2003.11.28: Draft Civil Contingencies Bill Joint Select Committee Report
- 2003.11.28: Blunkett on satellite tags
- 2003.11.27: VeriChip RFID evil
- 2003.11.26: Queen's Speech media spin
- 2003.11.25: Information Commissioner's website redesign errors or policy change ?
- 2003.11.22: Voyeurism offence becomes law
- 2003.11.22: Beverly Hughes on ID Cards
- 2003.11.21: SmartMobs website censored in UAE
- 2003.11.19: London JamCams censored again
- 2003.11.18: President Bush's visit to London and Mobile Phone jamming or surveillance
- 2003.11.17: Tesco Radio Barcodes plans
- 2003.11.14: Fiona Mactaggart misunderstands Biometrics
- 2003.11.13: "Identity Cards The Next Steps" versus Blunkett's words in Hansard
- 2003.11.12: ChildLocate upgrade to SSL/TLS encryption
- 2003.11.11: Statement in Parliament about Compulsory Biometric ID cards
- 2003.11.11: RFID tags in shampoo bottle tops
- 2003.11.09: Sir John Stevens, Commissioner Metropolitan Police interview by Sir David Frost
- 2003.11.09: Secret Passive Millimetre Wave Radar scanning trials on the streets of London
- 2003.11.06: Cabinet dither over ID Cards
- 2003.11.01: USA Topoff2 exercise implications for UK Civil Contingencies & Emergency planning
- 2003.11.01: UK CCTV Map project
- 2003.10.31: Biometrics 2003 exhibition
- 2003.10.29: US Biometric passports and visas
- 2003.10.25: Auto-ID Center mutates away from MIT
- 2003.10.23: Pictures of a Marks & Spencer RFID tag
- 2003.10.21: Marks & Spencer RFID tags
- 2003.10.12: Worries about ChildLocate
- 2003.10.12: Cabinet ID Card discussion leaks in the Sunday Times
- 2003.10.11: Reluctant Witnesses in Scotland
- 2003.10.09: Compulsory ID Cards equivalent to being on a Sex Offender Register ?
- 2003.10.07: Global Smart Sensor Web - no privacy !
- 2003.10.06: Scrambling for Safety 7
- 2003.10.06: ID cards article by Minette Marrin, Sunday Times -
- 2003.10.01: Blunkett on ID Cards - BBC Newsnight 30th September
- 2003.09.30: Secret decision on Central Population Register ?
- 2003.09.29: Information Commisioner worried about Oyster Cards
- 2003.09.26: London Underground Oyster Smart Card central database worries
- 2003.09.24: David Aaronovitch's Guardian article on ID cards
- 2003.09.24: ANPR
- 2003.09.21: Can GPS based tagging of offenders actually work ?
- 2003.09.20: Found: Travel Pass and Student ID
- 2003.09.19: ATCSA Communications Data Retention Code of Practice
- 2003.09.17: RFID Privacy Workshop at MIT
- 2003.09.15: NoTags Tesco RFID tag protest
- 2003.09.15: RFID tag protest at Tesco Sandhurst
- 2003.09.15: Privacy and Human Rights Survey 2003
- 2003.07.30: Recent comments test
- 2003.07.29: New colour scheme ?
- 2003.06.12: test
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