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Fears over EU's secret surveillance plans

...users' communications traffic data and making this information available to EU governments. Statewatch, a UK Internet-based organisation that monitors threats to civil liberties within... Read more

20 August, 2002 by Graeme Wearden

Bush lobbies EU to drop traffic data retention ban

...existing demands for data to be retained," said Tony Bunyan, editor of Statewatch. The European Parliament (EP) Civil Liberties Committee approved a report by the... Read more

5 November, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe

Home Office backs seven-year data retention laws

...the government's view that the NCIS idea should be implemented -- but Statewatch has it on good authority that the UK government has in fact... Read more

28 September, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe

EU Council agrees to Internet snooping proposals

The proposal could see all voice and data traffic stored for up to seven years, but its critics hope it will be blocked by the European Parliament Read more

28 June, 2001 by Graeme Wearden

Civil liberties group warns of EU surveillance proposal

...secretly written by a number of European governments, according to privacy advocates. Statewatch, a UK Internet-based organisation that monitors threats to civil liberties within... Read more

9 May, 2002 by Graeme Wearden
Who will pay price for EU data-retention plans?

Who will pay price for EU data-retention plans?

...than cementing existing practices into a legal framework. However, campaigners such as StateWatch argue that more surveillance is on its way. For example, the campaign... Read more

5 June, 2009 by Manek Dubash

UK to miss EU e-commerce deadline

...EU Directive was approved on 8 June, 2000. Tony Bunyan, editor of Statewatch, a Web site that monitors civil liberties, is adamant that the UK... Read more

11 January, 2002 by Wendy McAuliffe

Europe moves in circles over spam laws

...which is not usual," said Tony Bunyan, editor of the NGO publication "Statewatch. "Normally at the first Parliamentary reading, proposals are taken by the scruff... Read more

23 October, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe

Police slammed for 'hysterical' response to EU privacy directive

...access at the moment," said Tony Bunyan, editor of the independent watchdog Statewatch. "They only have the right to look at traffic data on a... Read more

13 August, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe

EU agreement on communications snooping 'unlikely'

...reach a decision today," said Tony Bunyan, editor of the independent watchdog Statewatch. "But if the Council does decide to bang heads together and reach... Read more

27 June, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe

Europe moves to monitor all Internet traffic

...take place in Europe," said Tony Bunyan, editor of the independent watchdog Statewatch. Bunyan is concerned that not only will the initiative require traffic data... Read more

17 May, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe

Ex-NSA expert warns of concealed backdoors

...Duncan Campbell, famous for his work on Echelon, and Tony Bunyan of Statewatch. Take me to Surveillance. Is commercial software at risk? To have your... Read more

25 September, 2000 by Will Knight

Anti-snooping gurus converge on London

...the US Electronic Privacy Information Centre and Tony Bunyan from the UK Statewatch Web site. Leading expert on cryptography Ross Anderson from Cambridge University will... Read more

19 September, 2000 by Will Knight

Big Brother is alive and well and living in Brussels

...Europe if new legislation being considered by the European Union is ratified. Statewatch, a UK internet-based organisation that monitors threats to civil liberties, said... Read more

20 August, 2002 by CNET Networks

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