[…] investigation, the tribunal also has the power to require assistance from a relevant Commissioner (RIPA s68(2)). RIPA sets up a new commissioner system, with the exception of surveillance commissioners, who continue under the Police Act 1997, and who now also have responsibility for overseeing the surveillance powers conferred under Parts II and III of […]
[…] war between globalization and democracy Thom Burnett and Alex Games New York: The Disinformation Company, 2007, p/b, $13.95 Who’s Watching You? The chilling truth about the state, surveillance and personal freedom Mick Farren and John Gibb New York: The Disinformation Company, 2007, p/b, $13.95 Two more from the Disinfo people. At first glance […]
[…] Politics by Robert Baldwin and Richard Kinsey (Quartet 1982) has a different focus. Where Manwaring-White surveys current police practice primarily through the development of police technology ( surveillance, information handling, weaponry etc.), Baldwin and Kinsey produce a critical look at British policing via sociological observation of a particular (but unnamed) police force. I think […]
[…] 39, 41, 43, 45, 49) have followed Malcolm Kennedy’s case. The human rights organisation, Liberty, took his complaint about interference with his communications and other forms of surveillance and harassment, to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), the body set up under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) to hear complaints relating to […]
[…] Cubans in London and Paris have helped run arms shipments to the IRA – and supplied passports to Palestinian guerrilla factions. Its seventeen diplomats are under constant surveillance. It wasn’t only in the Eye that dubious material appeared in the 1974-76 period. Auberon Waugh wrote in 1978, that only the Spectator and Private Eye […]
[…] aura of political corruption before the First World War – Frans Coetzee – in Historical Journal, December 1986 Military Intelligence and the defence of the realm: the surveillance of soldiers and civilians in Britain during the First World War – David Englander – in British Society for the Study of Labour History, Volume 52, […]
There has been much discussion about whether KAL 007 was an overhead intelligence platform or not. This article does not attempt to directly answer this question. Instead it reviews the reasons why the US should attempt technical intelligence gathering around September 1983 – when KAL 007 was downed – and the means available to do … Read more
[…] do this is uncertain – the matter remains classified. Satellite imagery is only the most remote possibility, given the darkness and the low-priority of Guyana as a surveillance site. Radio intercepts are a second, more likely, possibility; at present, however, it is unknown if there were transmissions from Jonestown that would have permitted an […]
[…] he was about to make to the Ervin Watergate Committee. Such evasive tactics do not mean very much in today’s age of computerised intelligence. Revelations about Army surveillance of U.S. citizens before another of Senator Ervin’s Committee in 1970 had led to the formal termination of that programme on June 9, 1970, which we […]
[…] time I stumbled across a three-page document issued by the South African intelligence service, in which my name was mentioned as a target to be kept under surveillance. On January 18, 1990, in the course of a letter of complaint to Mr P.R. Killen, the South African Ambassador to the UK, I asked for […]
