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  • Surveillance: what the parties said then and now | UK news | The Guardian

    Surveillance: what the parties said then and now The three main parties’ election manifesto pledges on civil liberties, and their declarations this week Before and after; hilarious reading at Surveillance: what the parties said then and now | UK news | The Guardian

  • Mitchell’s Law : “You automatically lose any civil rights debate when you invoke paedophiles or terrorists” #godwin #ccdp

  • The Home Secretary appeals to the The Sun to bail her out for #CCDP; but preaching to the wrong choir won’t help

    I find this fascinating: David Cameron defends government proposals to monitor calls, emails, texts and websites visits, claiming that the move is necessary to stop crime and would not be a “snoopers’ charter”. It comes as the Sun newspaper published a letter from Home Secretary Teresa May, where she says similar monitoring techniques helped put…

  • Home Sec: Web snoop law will snare PAEDOS, TERRORISTS • The Register

    But the Home Office’s frankly strategic management of the news was effective enough to capture the headlines yesterday and now the Home Sec has finally waded in. She adopted the well-worn line that the interwebs is a dangerous place for kids because it isn’t just used by ordinary folk but also by horrible criminals and…

  • Surveillance? Only *SOME* Liberal Democrats aren’t supporting it… #CCDP #libdems

    [note: this was written for my CWUK blog but they are dealing with some tech issues at the moment, so I’m posting it here instead.] Erratum: Surveillance? *SOME* Liberal Democrats aren’t supporting it… LibDem Conference says one thing, LibDem Leadership says another So – by dint of reporting on a Sunday Times article which “broke”…

  • Twitter Updates for 2012-04-03

    RT @bikerkris: "#telldaveeverything i'm just heating up a pasty at home. Is that tax evasion?" # @bikerkris I feel sure that @richardjmurphy would say that it is, re: https://t.co/snbiNbXJ # @DrJennyWoods did you get a response from @OpenRightsGroup ? # : .@Nick_Clegg declares public support for #CCDP #039;s distributed database – @libdems http://t.co/QwlBspHi # :…

  • An example of how a BBC News article changes hour-by-hour / day-to-day

    Click this: http://www.newssniffer.co.uk/articles/509918/diff/6/7 …and experiment a bit

  • .@Nick_Clegg declares public support for #CCDP’s distributed database – @libdems

    It’s great to see Governments finally adopt Enterprise IT Architecture terminology: Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says he is “totally opposed to the idea of Government’s reading people’s e-mails at will or creating a totally new central Government database but the point is we are not doing that”. Video: Clegg ‘totally opposed’ to central database…

  • Twitter Updates for 2012-04-02

    : "Email and web use 'to be monitored' under new laws" The BBC /finally/ spot that #CCDP is a story http://t.co/dULjJNZE # : Can someone plz provide the URL for the tool which tracks changes to BBC News articles? http://t.co/kRh8zpos # @DrJennyWoods It's a useful reference point but needs a refresh to catch media attention…

  • How Linux is changing lives in Zambia | News | TechRadar

    Elton Munguya is the 28-year-old unit director of a moderately large residential and business ISP and network service provider. His organisation counts many important institutions among its customers: the local bank, a hospital, several primary and secondary schools, the offices of the water administration board, a college and a bunch of cyber cafes. The network…

  • Via @andrewcb: #porn and #erototoxins

    This must be what the House of Lords Online Safety Act is about… via Internet Porn: Worse Than Crack?. Jeffrey Satinover, a psychiatrist and advisor to the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality echoed Layden’s concern about the internet and the somatic effects of pornography. “Pornography really does, unlike other addictions, biologically cause…

  • Can we #FOIA request the number of people killed by #porn in the UK in the last 5 years?

    This is before the House of Lords at the moment. It is the Online Safety Bill. One can only presume that porn makes use of mobile handsets somehow unsafe; that perhaps the naked images leap outwards through the screen and somehow grab the viewer by the throat? Or perhaps cause heart-attacks amongst the Lords? Were…