Surveillance
-
Leaked draft gives defense department equal footing with homeland security, but White House announces signing is cancelled without explanation on Tuesday
-
Security firm to scrap contentious use of constant recording by instructing staff to use cameras only when felt threatened
-
Information commissioner raises concern and campaigners threaten legal action over security firm’s use of body-worn cameras
-
Letters: Our scores were fed back each month, with pats on the back or threats of sanctions. The monitoring coincided with a reduction in staffing levels
-
Visitors filing visa waiver application are prompted to enter account names for social platforms, but activists say there are few guidelines for use of information
-
Local authorities used Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act to follow people, including dog walkers, over five years
-
Editorial: Governments often respond to terror in extraordinary ways. We should not implement a strategy that will destroy a society it aims to protect
-
Surveillance has gone too far. The jig is up
Martha SpurrierRather than fight the EU court ruling on the Investigatory Powers Act, the government should move to targeted surveillance that doesn’t sweep up everybody’s private lives
Topics
- Privacy
- UK security and counter-terrorism
- Data protection
- NSA
- Russia
- UK civil liberties
- GCHQ
- Court of justice of the European Union
- US politics
- Freedom of information
- Donald Trump
- Edward Snowden
- Human rights
- Barack Obama
- US elections 2016
- Germany
- FBI
- Counter-terrorism policy
- Berlin Christmas market attack
Whistleblowers endangered in digital age, says lawyers' report