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UPDATED: Canada’s WiFi Surveillance and CSEC’s Non-Denial Denials
See: Canada's WiFi Surveillance and CSEC's Non-Denial Denials (notes jrgallagher, link) USA-NSA-CANADA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: Exclusive: CSEC used airport Wi-Fi to track Canadian travellers: Edward Snowden documents - Electronic snooping was part of a trial run Read More
UK: Amendment to Immigration Bill allows Home Secretary to make people stateless
See the article: Amendment to Immigration Bill allows Home Secretary to make people stateless (Free Movement, link) And see: Bill's progress (link). Also see: ILPA briefing to Government New Clause 18 Deprivation of citizenship: conduct Read More
UK-GCHQ: DATA SURVEILLANCE: UK: Cameron says he failed to make case for mass surveillance after Snowden leaks
"David Cameron has admitted he had failed to make the case for mass surveillance of communications data following revelations by the former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. In a two-hour session in front of Read More
CoE: Parliamentary Assembly: A strategy to prevent racism and intolerance in Europe
See the full text: A strategy to prevent racism and intolerance in Europe (Press release, pdf) and see: Resolution: Tackling racism in the police (pdf) Read More
UK: Parliamentary Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy
See: The work of the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy in 2012: Government Response to the Committee’s Second Report of Session 2012–13 (pdf) and: The work of the Joint Committee on the National Read More
EU: European Parliament: Civil Liberties MEPs oppose merging Europol with police training college
"Europol should not be merged with the European Police College (CEPOL) because the two EU bodies should work separately, said the civil liberties committee on Thursday in a vote on new operating rules for Europol. Read More
Leaked official document records 330 drone strikes in Pakistan
"The document is the fullest official record of drone strikes in Pakistan to have yet been published. It provides rare insight into what the government understands about the campaign." See the article: Leaked official document Read More
GREECE-BULGARIA-GIBRALTAR: Greek coastguard accused of drowning 12 refugees
"Survivors claim they were beaten back into the sea and threatened at gunpoint as they tried to save their loved ones from drowning off Farmakonisi." See the full story: Greek coastguard accused of drowning 12 Read More
UPDATED: UK-GCHQ: Huge swathe of GCHQ mass surveillance is illegal, says top lawyer
See the article: Huge swathe of GCHQ mass surveillance is illegal, says top lawyer - Legal advice given to MPs warns that British spy agency is 'using gaps in regulation to commit serious crime with Read More
UK: Labour calls on government to apologise over miners’ strike – Move follows release of Whitehall papers showing deployment of troops was considered at height of mid-80s dispute
"The Labour party is to call on the government to issue an apology for the conduct of Margaret Thatcher's administration during the miners' strike of 1984-85, after recently released Whitehall papers showed a secret plan Read More