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Civil Liberties Group Opposes Clinton's Spy Plans
News With most wiretaps authorised by U.S.judges over the past decade targeted at individual offenders such as gamblers and drug runners, rather than big-time terrorists, proposed new wiretap powers in the US, will only give the Clinton administration...
[March 24, 1998, 10:14]
Civil Liberties Groups Condemn Big Brother Proposals
News Civil liberties advocates have branded the suggestion "unreasonable" and argue that Britain could risk being humiliated in front of Europe's top court. Yaman Akdenis, director of UK Internet rights group Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties condemns the...
[December 4, 2000, 8:40]
Balancing Civil Liberties And Civil Defense In An Age Of Super-Terrorism
White Papers As more agencies are created for homeland security and as Americans move further away in time from the attack of September 11, the criteria for defining (in a legal sense) a "potential terrorist," a "sleeper cell," or "subversive" will expand...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Principles For Safeguarding Civil Liberties In An Age Of Terrorism
White Papers Yet the war against terrorism is likely to be a long one, and Americans cannot tolerate the long-term substantial degradation of their civil liberties as the price of public safety. The war on terrorism changes the stakes in fundamental ways.
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Civil Liberties Group Denounces 'trusted' PCs
News A high-profile digital civil liberties group is criticising a component of the "trusted computing" technology promoted by Microsoft, IBM and other technology companies, calling the feature a threat to computer users.
[October 2, 2003, 15:35]
Civil Liberties Group Takes On DMCA
News The American Civil Liberties Union plans to file a lawsuit on Thursday in an attempt to overturn key portions of a controversial 1998 copyright law. By suing on behalf of a 22-year-old programmer who's researching the oft-buggy products, the civil...
[July 25, 2002, 14:58]
Civil Liberties Group Warns Of EU Surveillance Proposal
News Statewatch, a UK Internet-based organisation that monitors threats to civil liberties within Europe, said on Wednesday that several European governments are deeply committed to bringing in universal surveillance of telecommunications within the...
[May 9, 2002, 14:20]
Civil Liberties Groups Demand Halt To RFID
News Over 30 civil liberties and privacy groups have demanded a suspension to the deployment of radio frequency identification (RFID) tagging systems until a number of issues surrounding the controversial technology have been addressed.
[November 20, 2003, 17:15]
Civil Liberties Groups Unite For RFID Protest
News Civil liberties groups from both sides of the Atlantic have joined forces to oppose the proposed introduction and cross-border sharing of biometrics and RFID in more than one billion passports worldwide.
[March 31, 2004, 11:15]
Internet Firms May Quit UK Civil Liberties Experts Say
News Failure to bring UK cyber legislation in line with the US could have grave consequences for British Internet businesses civil liberties leaders warn Wednesday. But UK ISPs will continue to be at a disadvantage thinks Malcom Hutty, director of civil...
[May 3, 2000, 14:47]
Is The Mis-use Of IT Destroying Our Civil Liberties?
Forum This is a question that we all must think hard about because many Governments and private companies around the world are building up vast databases of personal data, biometrics and more. The UK Government has already begun the roll out of biometric...
[September 19, 2007, 17:06]
Civil Liberties Groups Demand Halt To RFID
Talkback I won't start worrying until I start reading in mainstream newspapers how RFID will help in the fight against terrorism and/or Child Pornography.as we're now seeing with surveillance of P2P) Once that happens its probably time to head for the hills.
[November 24, 2003, 10:04]
Civil Liberties Groups Demand Halt To RFID
Talkback People willing to give up personal freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both. This is the real start of governments total control of citizens
[January 27, 2005, 17:41]
Civil Liberties Groups Unite For RFID Protest
Talkback I read on ZombieWire that 75% of the people in the United States alone know nothing aboutthe RFID movment. I think people need to go out and address this issue with their friends , peers or whom ever.
[November 8, 2004, 19:35]
RIAA Draws Civil Liberties Opposition
News In a move that could complicate the RIAA's pursuit of peer-to-peer pirates, the American Civil Liberties Union said on Monday it had filed court documents accusing the trade association of illegally using thousands of subpoenas to unmask alleged...
[September 30, 2003, 12:40]
Civil Liberties Groups Demand Halt To RFID
Talkback You're too late. Amsterdam airport and several others are going to start tagging all luggage with RFID chips in order to better track items. Reasons are twofold: reduce the amount of lost luggage (if each item is scanned leaving the building it can...
[November 25, 2003, 9:02]
News Burst: Civil Liberties Outrage As Judge Shuts Site
News The Web site was removed by Kingston Internet following requests from the Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine. Lord Irvine complained that a Web site set up by James Hulbert, 67 -- a customer of Kingston Internet -- was offensive.
[November 11, 1999, 14:45]
"National Security And Civil Liberties: How To Strike The Balance?"
White Papers This webcast is one in a series of public forums at Duke University on critical issues surrounding the Sept.terrorist attacks.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Our Essential Liberties Must Not Be Compromised For An Empty Security Dream
Blog Following the Queen's Speech today which promised to press on with ID Cards, here's an interesting comment piece in the Guardian which is talking a lot of sense: The temptation to become irrational in the fight against home-grown terrorism in...
[November 15, 2006, 17:02]
Breaking The Vicious Cycle: Preserving Our Liberties While Fighting Terrorism
White Papers When terrorists perpetrate atrocities against innocent American civilians, the public response is initially one of shock, which then quickly turns into anger. It is also common for people to experience a deep sense of anxiety in the aftermath of...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
