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The Iron Cage of the Database State
Information defines people in the eyes of organizations that don’t know them. Societies and civilisations have grown in their complexity and organization, and so too has the information collected about us.
European court rules stop and search powers illegal
The Home Office is to appeal a European Court of Human Rights decision that the use of section 44 (Terrorism Act 2000) to stop and search individuals violates the right to respect for a private life guaranteed by article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Section 44 has long drawn criticism from protesters who argue the police have used to power to infringes on their right to protest
The story of Dhondup Wangchen, filmmaker jailed in China
Dhondup Wangchen’s trial reportedly started behind closed doors in September this year. According to Amnesty International he is being charged for “subversion and incitement to separatism” and has contracted Hepatitis B in prison for which he has received no treatment. After his Beijing lawyer was forced by the Chinese government to stop representing Dhondup Wangchen, local lawyers were appointed, leaving little hope of a fair trial
Indian filmstar Shahrukh Khan’s detention at a US Airport – what we should be asking
Indian film star Shahrukh Khan’s detention at New Jersey asks an important question.
UK police tactics are inflammatory, but it’s futile to focus only on individual behavior
The focus on the actions of individual policeman at the G20 protest in London ignores the grave errors made higher up the chain
Death, scandal and the erosion of privacy
The public death of Jade Goody and uproar over Google Street maps in the UK has again bought up the defining issue of our day: privacy, or the lack of it. Natasha Proietto disentangles how we got here and what it portends for the future
500 pigs, 20 horses, 16 dogs, 2 Starbucks: London protest march against assault on Gaza is banned
Jack Weir reports on last weekends London protest against the Israeli assault on Gaza.
Barack Obama will oversee the waning of the American superpower
Barack Obama will be watching the US enter ‘the evening land’, and a return to a multipolar world.
Are ID cards in Britain the road to 1984?
By 2017 the British Home Office intends to make ID cards compulsory for all Britons, but their efficacy has not been proven, and the destruction of long-cherished civil liberties is appalling.