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Dubya surveillance exceeded warrantless wiretaps: “

Secret snooping still secret

As yet unrevealed domestic intelligence activities by the Bush administration sent shock waves through Washington on Friday, as a report critical of post-9/11 US surveillance programs capped a week of increasingly acrimonious debate in the American capital about Bush-era policies.…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

Spy chiefs size up net snoop gear: “

Deep packet inspection bonanza

The security minister has confirmed officials are considering installing technology that could enable on-demand wiretapping of all communications passing over the internet by the intelligence services and law enforcement.…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

Spy chiefs plot £12bn IT spree for comms überdatabase: “

Black boxes to keep Black’s firm in the black

Billions of pounds of public money will soon be up for grabs for private IT contractors ready to serve the Interception Modernisation Programme – UK spy chiefs’ plan to store details of every call, email, text and web browsing session.…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

Snoop more, share less – Home Office spurns EU advice: “

Databases not safe, says database-loving gov

Government responses to two outwardly unrelated bits of EU policy go a long way to explain what it really thinks about the War on Terror and the rights of individual citizens.…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

Report of the Intelligence Services Commissioner for 2007: “Report of the Intelligence Services Commissioner for 2007

No 0948 2007–08, 22 July 2008: Available as a Full Text (PDF) file.

Published by The Stationery Office (TSO): ISBN 9780102957372″