Tag Archives: Home Secretary

UK: Police number plate recognition camera rules tightened

By Gideon Swift | Published: July 4, 2010
Source: BBC Police cameras that record motorists’ movements must be more tightly regulated, Home Secretary Theresa May has ordered. The 4,000-strong automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) network logs more than 10 million vehicles every day. The government is to look at limiting access to the database of 7.6 billion images, details of number plates and [...]
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UK: Crackdown on dangerous dogs to make microchips compulsory for all

By Gideon Swift | Published: March 9, 2010
All dogs are to be compulsorily microchipped so that their owners can be more easily traced under a crackdown on dangerous dogs to be unveiled today. The package will include extending the dangerous dogs law to cover attacks by dogs on private property to protect postmen, and making third-party insurance compulsory so that victims can [...]
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UK’s eavesdropping supremo quits

By Gideon Swift | Published: June 3, 2009
  As the architect of UK plans for the mass interception of Internet traffic resigns her post, resistance to the Big Brother scheme is increasing, writes Martyn Marwick. As Jacqui Smith, the UK’s unpopular, indeed, deeply despised, Home Secretary (a post similar in its responsibilities those of a Minister of the Interior in other parts [...]
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MI5: Outsourcing torture to foreign climes

By Gideon Swift | Published: May 27, 2009
In today’s Guardian, Ian Cobain tells the disturbing story of Jamil Rahman, a British citizen, raised in south Wales. His claims of abuse in Bangladeshi custody while British intelligence officers were in the same building add another location to an expanding list of countries in which the British intelligence services are accused of being involved [...]
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Jacqui Smith’s secret plan to carry on snooping

By Gideon Swift | Published: May 12, 2009
SPY chiefs are pressing ahead with secret plans to monitor all internet use and telephone calls in Britain despite an announcement by Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, of a ministerial climbdown over public surveillance. GCHQ, the government’s eavesdropping centre, is developing classified technology to intercept and monitor all e-mails, website visits and social networking sessions [...]
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Police to destroy DNA profiles of 800,000 innocent people

By Gideon Swift | Published: May 3, 2009
DNA profiles of almost a million innocent people are to be destroyed as part of a major overhaul of the police national database. They include people who have been arrested and never charged, and those taken to court but found not guilty. Civil rights groups gave a cautious welcome to the proposals – which will [...]
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British spy loses secrets in a handbag

By Gideon Swift | Published: April 26, 2009
A BRITISH agent has thrown the war against drug traffickers into chaos by leaving top secret information about covert operations on a bus in South America. In a blunder that has cost taxpayers millions of pounds and put scores of lives at risk, the drugs liaison officer lost a computer memory stick said to contain [...]
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Disruption vs. Prosecution and the Manchester Plot

By Gideon Swift | Published: April 22, 2009
STRATFOR Today »–> April 22, 2009 By Fred Burton and Scott Stewart On April 8, British authorities mounted a series of raids in Merseyside, Manchester and Lancashire that resulted in the arrest of 12 men suspected of being involved in a plot to conduct attacks over the Easter holiday weekend. In a press conference the [...]
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Anti-terror strategy warns of chemical attack threat

By Gideon Swift | Published: March 24, 2009
So, do you see how the stage is set for persecution ? Source:  guardian.co.uk Changing technology means the prospect of a chemical or biological terrorist attack in Britain is now more realistic, says the government’s updated counter-­terrorism strategy published today. It also discloses that serious ­preparations are under way in the UK to protect against [...]
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UK: Government plans to keep DNA samples of innocent

By Gideon Swift | Published: February 27, 2009
Hollywood might be the center of trendsetting when it comes to fashionable dress and abominable personal behaviors, but it seems to me that Britain has become the trendsetting capital when it comes to fascist governments…so, behold thine future Amerika. Source: The Guardian The government is planning to get around a European court ruling that condemned [...]
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