News tagged with 'surveillance'. Found 10 tagged news.

PC World: UK Slows Down Plan for Sweeping Electronic Surveillance

London :: United Kingdom | about 1 month ago

The British government is slowing down a proposal that would give law enforcement sweeping power to collect electronic data as a measure to prevent terrorism. The proposal, in the Communications Data Bill, would allow the government to collect data on...

Tags: electronic, security, surveillance, data, phone

The Shape of Things to Come?

Leeds :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago

Posted by James_Horrox

  Seven years after 9/11 and the launch of America’s “war on terrorism”, a report released by British civil liberties group Statewatch today examines the proposals being set out by the High-Level Advisory Group on the Future of...

Tags: Surveillance, European Union, Future Group, High-Level Advisory Group on the Future of European Home Affairs Policy, Statewatch, Tony Bunyan

FRANCE: Controversy over Edvige database still going strong

Paris :: France | 2 months ago

Police database criticised by French rights groups"       The French government on Monday defended a new police surveillance system that can target suspects as young as 13 after the defence minister voiced unease, joining an increasing number of critics....

Tags: database, security, data, information, surveillance, set

Spy & Security shop is strictly on a need to know basis

San Diego :: CA :: USA | 2 months ago

Posted by dweisman

By Dan Weisman   SAN MARCOS  – Customers prefer to remain anonymous. But, who can blame them. After all, the Spy & Security Store on W. San Marcos Boulevard bills itself as the place “Where James Bond shops.”  ...

Tags: san diego, surveillance, spies, undercover, detective, investigation

Md. ACLU releases docs detailing police monitoring

Baltimore :: MD :: USA | 4 months ago

Undercover Maryland state police officers infiltrated meetings of peace and anti-death penalty groups for more than a year, according to documents released Thursday by the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Police also included the name...

Tags: database, surveillance, security, spying, Maryland State Police, civil liberties, liberties union, penalty group

City readies privacy policy for surveillance cameras

Seattle :: WA :: USA | 4 months ago

The administration's proposed security camera privacy policy is being introduced to City Council today, meaning a first vote could occur as early as July 2...Getz and Associates, of Charlotte, N.C., to choose a vendor for a proposed $3.45 million first...

Tags: surveillance

Warning: Stop Breaching Privacy

San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago

Posted by newsenthused

Councils are being warned to discontinue use of surveillance mechanisms for mild offenses. The Local Government Association intimated that if surveillance becomes too commonplace, councils will no lnoger have the right to access records such as emails...

Tags: surveillance, LGA

Welcome to the Database State

San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago

Posted by newsenthused

Since the early 1990s, the British government has assumed extraordinary surveillance powers. From installing networks of closed-circuit video cameras throughout the country, to developing a national database of the country's citizenry (featuring information...

Tags: database, security, spying, surveillance, UK

Sweden Adopts American-Style Eavesdropping Plan

Stockholm :: Sweden | 5 months ago

Sweden's parliament narrowly approved a contentious law Wednesday that gives authorities sweeping powers to eavesdrop on all e-mail and telephone traffic that crosses the Nordic nation's borders. The right-leaning government's slim majority helped secure...

Tags: Sweden, eavesdropping, surveillance, phone calls, Somalia, Swedish Parliament, heated debate

Britain's Nimrod Planes 'Should be Grounded'

Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 6 months ago

But the British Ministry of Defence said it would continue to fly the planes, a workhorse of the fleet for 40 years. The entire Nimrod fleet "has never been airworthy from the first time it was released to the service", coroner Andrew Walker said. He...

Tags: Nimrod, RAF, surveillance, RAF Nimrod, Afghanistan, Oxfordshire, Andrew Walker, nimrods fleet, deputy coroner, assistant deputy, RAF Kinloss, spy planes, nimrods crashes