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UK-GCHQ: Yahoo webcam images from millions of users intercepted by GCHQ
"• Optic Nerve program collected Yahoo webcam images in bulk • 1.8m users targeted by UK agency in six-month period alone • Yahoo: 'A whole new level of violation of our users' privacy' • Material Read More
EU: ‘Antici protocols’ shed light on EU crisis summits
See: 'Antici protocols' shed light on EU crisis summits (euobserver, link) Read More
EU: Statewatch Analysis: New EU rules on maritime surveillance: will they stop the deaths and push-backs in the Mediterranean?
"the complex interplay of the provisions of this Regulation with EU asylum law has led to something of a ‘dog’s dinner’ of rules governing the asylum applications of people rescued or intercepted in the Mediterranean, Read More
EU: European Parliament and CEPOL trilogue
Multicolumn document with positions of MS Proposal, Parliament, Council and "compromise" for discussion on Monday 3 March 2014. See: Initiative of Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Estonia, Greece, Spain, France, Croatia, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Read More
European Parliament: Parliament backs EU-Turkey deal to return clandestine migrants
"Clandestine migrants from the EU to Turkey or Turkey to the EU would have to be returned under an EU-Turkey “readmission” agreement signed by both parties in December and endorsed by Parliament on Wednesday. The Read More
EU: ARMED DRONES: MEPs vote in landslide for ban on covert drone strikes
"The European Parliament today overwhelmingly condemned the covert drone strikes that have killed thousands of civilians in countries such as Pakistan and Yemen." See: MEPs vote in landslide for ban on covert drone strikes (Reprieve, Read More
SCOTLAND: Social landlord agrees immigration deal with the Home Office
"Scotland’s largest housing association has become the first landlord in the UK to sign a deal with the Home Office to identify illegal migrants who apply for housing." See the full text: Social landlord agrees Read More
UK: Water cannon: Met Police ‘does not have convincing case’
"The Metropolitan Police force has not made a "convincing case" for buying three water cannon, a report says." See the article: Water cannon: Met Police 'does not have convincing case' (BBC News, link) And Statewatch Read More
UK: Ex-Guantánamo detainee Moazzam Begg held in Birmingham terror raids Begg, released from Guantánamo without charge, arrested with two men and a woman on suspicion of Syria-related offences
"The former Guantánamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg, who became a vocal campaigner against the alleged excesses of the war on terror, is back in detention after being arrested for alleged terrorism offences linked to Syria. Read More
UK-GCHQ: DATA SURVEILLANCE: How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations
"One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction". Read More