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US judge hears challenge to laptop seizures

...phones and other electronic devices at the border and seize them indefinitely. Civil liberties groups filed the suit in September, challenging the Department of Homeland... Read more

11 July, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

US internet ID scheme to get pilot projects by 2012

...US Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC, administration officials downplayed privacy and civil liberties concerns about their proposal, which they said would be led by... Read more

18 April, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

Home Office: Police will retain data on innocent people

...Brokenshire, Home Office minister One of the coalition's key pledges around civil liberties included plans to adopt a Scottish model of DNA retention, whereby... Read more

27 July, 2011 by Sade Laja

UK to join European fingerprint database

...with a view to maximising our country's security, protecting Britain's civil liberties and enhancing our ability to control immigration," the minister added. Central... Read more

13 January, 2011 by Kable

White House pushes cybersecurity ID plan

...of Homeland Security. The move is also likely to please privacy and civil-liberties groups that have raised concerns in the past over the dual... Read more

10 January, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

ID card scrappage bill to gain royal assent

...following months and years, we will continue to act decisively to defend civil liberties while protecting the public. I hope we have put the era... Read more

21 December, 2010 by Kable

Home Office targets data storage reforms by 2015

...that as part of its plans to "protect people's freedoms and civil liberties" it will publish the proposals before the end of the year... Read more

10 November, 2010 by Kable

Parliament rejects discount for ID card holders

The immigration minister has confirmed that people who bought ID cards that were subsequently scrapped will not receive a discount next time they apply for a passport Read more

20 September, 2010 by Kable

ID cards scrappage bill set for December

The Identity and Documents Bill, which includes scrapping ID cards and the National Identiy Register, is planned to pass Parliament at the end of the year Read more

30 July, 2010 by Kable
All the Laws but One: <endeca_term>Civil Liberties</endeca_term> in Wartime by William H. Rehnquist 3.0.1

All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime by William H. Rehnquist 3.0.1

All the Laws but One: Civil Liberties in Wartime William H. Rehnquist Knopf December 18, 2007 In All... Read more

26 August, 2010

Government restricts 'snooping' surveillance

A wide-ranging new law will strengthen civil liberties, the government has said, and will include a restriction on local... Read more

11 February, 2011 by Tom Espiner

CISPA cybersecurity bill clears US Congress

...of the United States". However, some of the other amendments introduced additional civil liberties safeguards. Although CISPA is a US affair, some have pointed out... Read more

27 April, 2012

Rapporteur tells MEPs to reject ACTA

...of this international agreement are far outweighed by the potential threats to civil liberties," Martin, the treaty's rapporteur, wrote on Thursday (PDF). "Given the... Read more

13 April, 2012

Email and web snooping plans draw back-bench fire

The government's plans to intercept everyone in the UK's phone, text, email and web-surfing records have drawn fresh... Read more

2 April, 2012

Europe-wide draft law seeks to criminalise hacking

...see two years in prison under proposals backed by the European Parliament Civil Liberties Committee. Aggravating circumstances would include the use of tools designed for... Read more

28 March, 2012

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