Police are gathering the personal details of thousands of activists who attend political meetings and protests, and storing their data on a network of nationwide intelligence databases.
The government has dumped a heavily-criticised plan to retain the DNA profiles of innocent people for up to 12 years, after the researchers behind evidence it was based on disowned the policy.
DRACONIAN use of terror laws could see Big Brother-style identity checks forced on all air passengers arriving in Scotland from the rest of Britain.
Radical Think Tank Open Europe has this week exposed a study by the EU that could lead to the creation of a massive cross-Europe database, amassing vast amounts of personal data on every single citizen in the EU.
Until the 16th century, educated opinion, as codified by Ptolemy, held that the Earth is at the centre of the universe. Then along came Copernicus.
The latest report from the Interception of Communications Commissioner affords us a glimpse of the true scale of official surveillance in modern Britain.
Police and other officials tapped phone calls and emails an average of 1,381 times a day last year, according to a report released today by the interception of communications commissioner, Sir Paul Kennedy.
The government must be quietly grateful to the distractions of August.
A police force has suspended searches of people under controversial anti-terror laws after shock figures exposed the futility of the legislation.
The European Data Protection Supervisor has adopted an opinion on the Stockholm programme - the European Commission's creepy-sounding "agenda for the future".
Anti-ID has not initiated any private discussions.