Spy Blog - SpyBlog.org.ukWatching Them, Watching Us http://SpyBlog.org.uk (moved from www.spy.org.uk/spyblog)Home Secretary Jacqui Smith: "no legal restriction on photography in public places", but supports legal harassment of photographers- July 4, 2008 hat tip to Johnny Void Photographic Surveillance in public can be, and is, used deliberately as a legal harassment technique, both by Police Forward Information Teams (who may sometimes be civilian photographers videographers) and sometimes by their opponents e.g. Fit Watch. According to the British Journal of Photography (NJP), back in May, the General Secretary of the the National Union of Journalists NUJ), Jeremy Dear, wrote a letter to the Home Secretary, complaining about such...http://p10.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/blog/2008/07/home-secretary-jacqui-smith-confir... The Sun: Did Russians or al-Qaeda poison Britain's top spy - Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee Alex Allan in a coma- July 4, 2008 Rupert Murdoch's popular and influential, bur sensationalist tabloid newspaper The Sun claims an exclusive story about the sudden, critical illness of Alex Allan, the current Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee. The story is a scoop, but it is also full of speculative conspiracy theories, without any hard facts to back them up: Being in charge of analysing and presenting summaries of secret and open intelligence to the Government, puts him at the head of the intelligence analysis,.http://p10.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/blog/2008/07/the-sun-did-russians-or-alqaeda-po... Support the NO2ID Nine who were arrested in Edinburgh- July 3, 2008 If, like us, you are shocked and incensed about the disgraceful arrest and charging of nine NO2ID Campaign supporters (see previous article Nine NO2ID arrests at Home Office Minister Meg Hillier's secretive ID Cards centralised State database propaganda meeting in Edinburgh), there is something practical you can do to show your support for them, for their right (and yours) of peaceful, lawful protest, and to help counter the privacy intrusions and security risks of the Database...http://p10.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/blog/2008/07/support-the-no2id-nine-arrestees.h... Former Director General of the Security Service MI5 is now officially Baroness Manningham-Buller- July 1, 2008 Hat tip to Lord Norton, writing at the new House of Lords group blog Lords of the Blog: Adding value Published July 1, 2008 Lord Norton What have the Rt Rev. John Charles, Bishop of Lincoln, and Eliza Manningham-Buller, former head of MI5, got in common Answer: They were both introduced into the House of Lords today. The Bishop joins the House by reason of seniority, replacing a retiring Bishop. Baroness Manningham-Buller is, as far as I am aware, the first former head of MI5 to...http://p10.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/blog/2008/07/former-director-general-of-the-sec... Liberty wins a minor European Court of Human Rights judgment against the UK Government over telephone and electronic data interceptions- July 1, 2008 Liberty Human Rights and their Irish equivalents, the British Irish Rights Watch and the Irish Council for Civil Liberties have actually won a case before the European Court of Human Rights against the United Kingdom Government, regarding domestic and international telephone and other electronic data communications interceptions.in the 1990s. See CASE OF LIBERTY AND OTHERS v. THE UNITED KINGDOM (Application no. 5824300), Strasbourg, 1 July 2008 This affair was brought to light through the...http://p10.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/blog/2008/07/liberty-wins-a-minor-european-cour... Nine NO2ID arrests at Home Office Minister Meg Hillier's secretive ID Cards centralised State database propaganda meeting in Edinburgh- July 1, 2008 The poisoned chalice of trying to pretend to be seen to be "consulting" the public, about the labour government's wretched Identity cards and centralised biometric database, the National Identity Register, has currently been palmed off onto the most junior Minister at the Home Office. the hapless Meg Hillier MP, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Identity).. She is currently touring the country, at a series of not exactly secret, but certainly deliberately unpublicised meetings, with...http://p10.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/blog/2008/07/no2id-arrests-at-home-office-minis... |