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They spy on us because they recognise our power, and fear it

The climate movement has learnt from the Spy Cops scandal; we won't let it stop us.

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The new report Impacts of Surveillance on Contemporary British Activism examines how recent revelations – notably the spycops scandal of Britain’s political secret police and the Snowden information on how we are watched electronically – have changed activism.

The report says the unmasking of undercover police officer Mark Kennedy in 2010 had significant negative impact on activists and on activism itself.