Terrified London cops spending millions gathering useless intelligence on peaceful protestors
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| British journalist Matt Salusbury decided to
| investigate the information that the London
| police had gathered on him as part of their
| intimidation campaign against activists and
| protestors -- the Met spends over
| GBP9MM/year gathering "intelligence" on
| nonviolent, noncriminal demonstrators -- and
| discovered a file filled with paranoid notes
| about his presence at lawful public
| gatherings.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/27/terrified-london-cop.html
Protesting against police tactics
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/oct/26/police-protest-data-protection
McKinnon is thrown a lifeline
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| THE BRITISH HOME SECRETARY has thrown a
| lifeline to hacker Gary McKinnon with a
| promise to examine new medical evidence
| "very carefully" before deciding on his
| extradition to the United States.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1559847/mckinnon-thrown-lifeline
Swiss Foreign Ministry gets hacked
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| Reports seem to suggest that the hack was
| cunningly disguised, although no one is
| saying what it was disguised as.
|
| However it was spotted by Microsoft
| employees who were looking after the network
| and stopped it by pulling the plug out of
| the wall.
`----
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1559843/swiss-foreign-ministry-hacked
EU, spying on you. The Full Monty
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| Earlier today, âTo the tune of Â10 million (about
| $C16,973,183), the European Union is backing
| Project Indect, a five-year spy plan whose
| principal function would be to secretly monitor
| almost every aspect of the lives of EU citizens,â
| said p2pnet.
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/29573
ACLU Says Extracting DNA From Suspects Unconstitutional
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| Californiaâs law requiring the authorities to
| take a DNA sample from every person arrested on
| felony accusations was challenged in federal
| court Wednesday as an unconstitutional privacy
| breach.
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/dna-sampling-challenge
DNA database set to start in a year
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| The UAE aims to start collecting genetic samples
| from residents within 12 months as part of its
| controversial DNA database project, the
| programmeâs director said yesterday, making it
| the first country in the world to do so.
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http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091007/NATIONAL/710069853/1133
ID card officials back away from scandal-hit database
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| Government plans to store ID card biometrics data
| on a controversial system used by thousands of
| public workers might be scrapped.
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/10/06/238017/id-card-officials-back-away-from-scandal-hit-database.htm
Recent:
EU, spying on you. The Full Monty
,----[ Quote ]
| Earlier today, âTo the tune of Â10 million (about
| $C16,973,183), the European Union is backing
| Project Indect, a five-year spy plan whose
| principal function would be to secretly monitor
| almost every aspect of the lives of EU citizens,â
| said p2pnet.
`----
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/29573
Kiddie Monitoring Software Spying On IM Chats, Selling Info To Marketers
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| But it appears that just selling the tools isn't enough for some
| companies.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090908/1916036134.shtml
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