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Police in £9m scheme to log 'domestic extremists'

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.

UK.gov back to the drawing board on DNA retention

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.

ID checks to travel across border

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.

Euro project to arrest us for what they think we will do

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.

Collar the lot of us! The biometric delusion

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.

Time to dismantle our surveillance society

The latest report from the Interception of Communications Commissioner affords us a glimpse of the true scale of official surveillance in modern Britain.

Phones and email tapped 1,381 times a day

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.

Nine sacked for breaching core ID card database

The government must be quietly grateful to the distractions of August.

Force uses stop and search power 3,400 times - but suspends it after failing to make single terror arrest

A police force has suspended searches of people under controversial anti-terror laws after shock figures exposed the futility of the legislation.

Europe should put privacy at centre of new laws

The European Data Protection Supervisor has adopted an opinion on the Stockholm programme - the European Commission's creepy-sounding "agenda for the future".

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