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News in Brief; Finnish security police charged with illegal snooping
Three top officials in Finland’s Security Police (SUPO) and the former head of the security unit of the telecommunications service provider Sonera are to be charged in a case involving suspected illegal telecommunications surveillance, according Read More
EU: Court of First Instance decides governments can veto access to documents
The EU's Court of First Instance has decided that governments can veto access to documents originating from them and submitted to an EU institution (in this case the European Commission). Interestingly the applicant was supported Read More
EU: Plan of Action on Combating Terrorism – New Update
(doc no 16090/04, dated 14.12.04). For previous versions see Statewatch's Observatory in defence of freedom and democracy Read More
News in Brief; Marine Corps deploys Fallujah biometric ID scheme
The Register (link) Read More
EU: Justice and Home Affairs Council, 2 December 2004
Press release (pdf) 1. Main agenda (pdf) 2. "A" point agenda (adopted without discussion) 3. Background Note 4. EU Plan of Action on Combating Terrorism - New Update (doc no 14330/1/04, 29.11.04). For previous versions Read More
UK: House of Lords rules in favour of Belmarsh detainees
UK: The appeal court in the House of Lords (the highest in the land) has ruled that the detention of people without trial breaks human rights laws - the House of Lords law lords ruled Read More
News in Brief; EU Presidencies 2007-2020
pdf - These are presented as groups of three ("troika") - that is, each will chair Council meetings for six months but will work with the other two governments during the term Read More
UK: Freedom of information
Parliament's Consitutional Affairs Committee. Concerns about the public sector’s readiness to comply with the new freedom of information law are today (7.12.04) raised in a report by the Constitutional Affairs Select Committee.The report, which provides Read More
UK: Government responses to House of Lords Select Committee on the European Union’s reports
Government responses(pdf) This includes 5th Report: Fighting Illegal Immigration: Should Carriers Carry the Burden? 6th Report: Future role of the European Court of Justice (pdf), 11th Report: Handling EU Asylum Claims: New Approaches Examined (pdf) Read More
News in Brief; UN finds bugging device at Geneva headquarters
UN finds bugging device at Geneva headquarters (link) More on UN bug from Cryptome (link) Read More