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Published in: openSecurityThe surveillance marketplaceBehind Google and Verizon lies a much more complex landscape of American companies ready to do global business...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhere to stand in the Fourth EstateAttacks on the Guardian's supposed hypocrisy conflates public scrutiny with gossip and entertainment.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAn unholy mixture: surveillance, the law and a setback for journalismWe should not underestate the seriousness of the government's attacks on those seeking to expose its surveillance...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The digital freedom risk: too fragile an acknowledgment
At least at first, freedom dies without human beings being physically hurt. The author is convinced that the freedom...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDavid Miranda: terrorist or tourist?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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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe final brick in the wall of the security state?
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: openSecurityOn the trail of Britain's undercover police
Recent revelations have exposed the routine embedding of undercover police officers within environmental and social...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Snowden FalloutIn America, candidacy is reserved only for those who can afford it, betraying the essential democratic concept of...
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Published in: openSecurityDisruption policing: surveillance and the right to protest
From overt, intrusive surveillance to 'network demolition': disruption is central to the strategies of...
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Published in: openSecurityThe military grip on US policing
US domestic law enforcement finds one reason after another to adopt military tactics and tougher approaches to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKLiberty, Liberalism and Surveillance: a historic overviewOne of Britain's most distinguished political theorists on republicanism, freedom, Machiavelli, Hobbes, the...
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Published in: HomeBaader-Meinhof, Edward Snowden and learning the 'right' lessonThe American government treats Edward Snowden like a member of al-Qaeda or the Baader-Meinhof Group. This violation...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKOrwell is drowning in data: the volume problemIn the Orwellian imagination, the fundamental flaw in state intrusion lay in overwhelming layers of bureaucracy. Dom...
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Published in: HomeSurveillance blowback: the making of the US surveillance state, 1898-2020
For well over a century, what might be called ‘surveillance blowback’ from America’s wars has ensured the creation...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhat have I got to fear, if you've got something to hide?Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The recent surveillance leaks in Britain show a regime that is...
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Published in: HomeWhat can we say? On Prism, the Snooper's Charter, whistleblowers, spies and secret courts ...
In February 2009 the Convention of Modern Liberty gathered a distinguished crowd who cared about the issues raised...