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Schoolboy's bedroom raided after TV aerial interferes with air traffic control
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| A schoolboy, Nickie Chamberlain, was
| surprised when Government officials arrived
| at his bedroom and confiscated his
| television aerial because it was interfering
| with planes landing at a nearby airport.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6447394/Schoolboys-bedroom-raided-after-TV-aerial-interferes-with-air-traffic-control.html
DNA Profiling: You May Be Next
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| But as it celebrates its 25th anniversary,
| the question of how DNA evidence is being
| used and how samples are being extracted,
| have come under fire from civil rights
| activists and many criminal justice experts.
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http://missionlocal.org/2009/10/dna-profiling-you-may-be-next/
More than 5 million people now on DNA database
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| The estimated number of people whose DNA
| profile is stored by the government has
| broken the five million mark for the first
| time.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/28/dna_database_update/
ID Card scheme banking on 28 million volunteers
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| Government claims that the ID Card scheme
| will be self-financing are "completely
| deluded", the Tories have claimed today.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/27/id_cards_figures/
Councils get âAl Caponeâ power to seize assets over minor offences
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| Draconian police powers designed to deprive
| crime barons of luxury lifestyles are being
| extended to councils, quangos and agencies
| to use against the public, The Times has
| learnt.
|
| The right to search homes, seize cash,
| freeze bank accounts and confiscate property
| will be given to town hall officials and
| civilian investigators employed by
| organisations as diverse as Royal Mail, the
| Rural Payments Agency and Transport for
| London.
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http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article6892830.ece
Bulgarian State Security Agency (DANS) high-level corruption report, 2008
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| Classified Bulgarian State Security Agency
| (DANS/SANS) intelligence report into high-
| level corruption. The report was allegedly
| went missing from the office of the Prime
| Minister, Sergey Stanishev last year.
|
| The theft of the report, allegedly a copy
| marked "N2", and its re-discovery is at the
| center of a scandal currently rocking the
| Bulgarian political and business classes.
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http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Bulgarian_State_Security_Agency_(DANS)_high-level_corruption_report%2C_2008
Recent:
Home Office backs down on net censorship laws
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| The government has abandoned its long-standing
| pledge to force 100 per cent of internet
| providers to block access to a list of child
| pornography websites.
|
| The decision to drop the policy will be
| finalised at a meeting on Monday to be
| attended by internet industry representatives,
| children's charities and Alun Michael MP.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/16/home_office_iwf_legislation/
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