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USA-NSA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: Inside TAO: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit
"The NSA's TAO hacking unit is considered to be the intelligence agency's top secret weapon. It maintains its own covert network, infiltrates computers around the world and even intercepts shipping deliveries to plant back doors Read More
UNHCR-UK: UK immigration bill could create ‘climate of ethnic profiling’ – UNHCR: UN refugee agency condemns bill which seeks to restrict access to benefits and force temporary migrants to pay for services
"The UN refugee agency has condemned David Cameron's proposed immigration laws over fears they could stigmatise foreigners, deny housing to people in need and create a "climate of ethnic profiling". In a highly critical document, Read More
Assisting Rather than Deporting Trafficking Victims in Spain
"Collage of news reports on trafficking in the Spanish press, from Mujer Emancipada de Málaga, an NGO that provides assistance to women in need. Credit: Inés Benítez/IPS" See: Assisting Rather than Deporting Trafficking Victims in Read More
EU: European Council: DEFENCE POLICY: European Council, 19-20 December 2013: Conclusions on common security and defence policy
"For the first time since the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, the European Council held a thematic debate on defence. It identified priority actions for stronger cooperation. This debate was preceded by a Read More
UK-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: Surveillance: complacency, secrecy – Britain’s great vices: Democracy’s real responses to state surveillance begin on the streets where we live, where we wake up, calculate the risks, and insist on having our say
"the two worlds of DC and Cheltenham intersect at last. There is no absolute security, just as there are no definitive reforms. There is always desperate peril to secrecy. Horrible things happen when nobody knows. Read More
Italy: ASGI statement over Lampedusa video highlights
Following the shocking images of naked migrants being sprayed with disinfectant that was aired on the Rai 2 evening news programme, ASGI has issued a statement (translation): "Associazione studi giuridici sull’immigrazione (A.S.G.I.) expresses its disdain Read More
EU: Council of the European Union: Greek Council Presidency: Justice and Home Affairs Council meetings, January-June 2014
See the full text: Draft Agendas (pdf) Read More
USA-NSA: New documents show how the NSA infers relationships based on mobile location data
"Everyone who carries a cellphone generates a trail of electronic breadcrumbs that records everywhere they go. Those breadcrumbs reveal a wealth of information about who we are, where we live, who our friends are and Read More
EU: DATA PROTECTION DIRECTIVE ON LEA DATA EXCHANGE
Latest "state of play" in the Council of the European Union: Working Party on Information Exchange and Data Protection: Discussions on its negotiating position regarding the Directive for Member State law enforcement agencies exchanging data Read More
UK: Torture victims have “well-founded claim” that UK complicit in their abuse, says High Court
"A High Court judge has today expressed his “concern” over a case brought by an anti-Gaddafi dissident and his wife who were kidnapped and forcibly sent to Libya in a 2004 “extraordinary rendition” operation orchestrated Read More