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  Published in: openDemocracyUK

  David Miranda: terrorist or tourist?

  Published on: 27 August 2013

  Written by: Stuart Weir All articles by Stuart Weir

  The debate roars on as Theresa May insists the detaining of our citizens is for our own protection, but how far and...

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  The final brick in the wall of the security state?

  Published on: 25 August 2013

  Written by: Bill Thompson All articles by Bill Thompson

  Why the digital commentator and technology adviser this week decided to call on Obama, Cameron, Clegg and the other...

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  Published in: openSecurity

  On the trail of Britain's undercover police

  Published on: 13 August 2013

  Written by: Merrick Badger All articles by Merrick Badger

  Recent revelations have exposed the routine embedding of undercover police officers within environmental and social...

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  The Snowden Fallout

  Published on: 13 August 2013

  Written by: Joe Bilsborough All articles by Joe Bilsborough

  In America, candidacy is reserved only for those who can afford it, betraying the essential democratic concept of...

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  Published in: openSecurity

  Disruption policing: surveillance and the right to protest

  Published on: 8 August 2013

  Written by: Val Swain All articles by Val Swain

  From overt, intrusive surveillance to 'network demolition': disruption is central to the strategies of...

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  Published in: openSecurity

  The military grip on US policing

  Published on: 8 August 2013

  Written by: Ali Winston All articles by Ali Winston

  US domestic law enforcement finds one reason after another to adopt military tactics and tougher approaches to...

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  Liberty, Liberalism and Surveillance: a historic overview

  Published on: 26 July 2013

  Written by: Richard Marshall All articles by Richard Marshall

  Written by: Quentin Skinner All articles by Quentin Skinner

  One of Britain's most distinguished political theorists on republicanism, freedom, Machiavelli, Hobbes, the...

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  Baader-Meinhof, Edward Snowden and learning the 'right' lesson

  Published on: 25 July 2013

  Written by: Kevin Frech All articles by Kevin Frech

  The American government treats Edward Snowden like a member of al-Qaeda or the Baader-Meinhof Group. This violation...

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  Orwell is drowning in data: the volume problem

  Published on: 24 July 2013

  Written by: Dom Shaw All articles by Dom Shaw

  In the Orwellian imagination, the fundamental flaw in state intrusion lay in overwhelming layers of bureaucracy. Dom...

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  Surveillance blowback: 
the making of the US surveillance state, 1898-2020

  Published on: 17 July 2013

  Written by: Alfred W. McCoy All articles by Alfred W. McCoy

  For well over a century, what might be called ‘surveillance blowback’ from America’s wars has ensured the creation...

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  What have I got to fear, if you've got something to hide?

  Published on: 25 June 2013

  Written by: JD Taylor All articles by JD Taylor

  Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The recent surveillance leaks in Britain show a regime that is...

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  What can we say? On Prism, the Snooper's Charter, whistleblowers, spies and secret courts ...

  Published on: 18 June 2013

  Written by: Rosemary Bechler All articles by Rosemary Bechler

  In February 2009 the Convention of Modern Liberty gathered a distinguished crowd who cared about the issues raised...