Labour’s ‘abject’ record on civil liberties has come under attack from the Liberal Democrats during their autumn conference today. The government has succumbed to a ‘politics of fear and control’ according to justice spokesman, David Howarth. But the MP reserved most of his criticism for Conservative plans on civil liberties, announced earlier this week. “It [...]
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During his interview with Surveillance News yesterday, UK Pirate Party leader Andrew Robinson was chuffed to have recently pipped Labour’s attempts to, ah, get down with the kids. Earlier this week, the PPUK Facebook group overtook the Labour Party, with 6691 members compared to 6356 for Labour. Admittedly, if you take the number of group [...]
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Comment: surveillance under the Tories
“We believe that your personal information belongs to you, not the state. Where private details are collected by government, they are held on trust. The government must be held accountable to its citizens, not the other way round.” Such is the promising introduction to a new Conservative policy document on ‘Reversing the rise of the [...]
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