Post from: TorrentFreak Pirate Party Official Raided after Uncovering State Trojan: “ The spokesperson of the German Pirate Party saw his house raided after the party published a leaked document which showed that the government…
GCHQ ‘monitored Omagh bomb calls’: “The UK’s electronic intelligence agency monitored phone calls between the Omagh bombers, the BBC’s Panorama reports.” (Via BBC News.)
Gonzales Violated Secrecy Rules With Spy Docs, Lied to Cover It Up: “Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales repeatedly and knowingly mishandled ultra-secret documents about the government’s warrantless wiretapping program and lied to investigators about it,…
The Home Office Consultation Paper entitled Transposition of Directive 2006/24/EC is available here, and the deadline for comments is 31 October, 2008. Councils get power to ‘spy’ on your e-mail and net use: “Councils and…
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…
UK comms intercepts up by half – and it isn’t the council: “ Wristslap for town halls’ street watchers, however The latest reports from government surveillance watchdogs reveals that interception of communications by UK officials…
Report of the Interception of Communications Commissioner for 2007: “Report of the Interception of Communications Commissioner for 2007 No 0947 2007–08, 22 July 2008: Available as a Full Text (PDF) file. Published by The Stationery…
Annual report of the Chief Surveillance Commissioner to the Prime Minister and to Scottish Ministers for 2007-2008: “Annual report of the Chief Surveillance Commissioner to the Prime Minister and to Scottish Ministers for 2007-2008 No…
Swedes call on Human Rights Court to review snoop law: “ Angry boffins attempt to bork legislation A Swedish organisation headed by lawyers and university professors has lodged a complaint this week with the European…
Senate Backs Wiretap Bill to Shield Phone Companies: “Barack Obama was among the 69 senators voting to broaden government spy powers and give immunity to phone companies that aided in secret wiretapping (Via NYT >…