[…] Tribunal was established under s65 Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, which lays down the rules governing interception of communications, acquisition and disclosure of communications data, and surveillance. It is the only body that can hear complaints relating to conduct by the intelligence and security agencies, and complaints about phone-tapping, and is also the […]
[…] local basis from some police Special Branches. Special Branches also surveilled the unions, the wider left and organisations like CND. Also, and rather important in this period, surveillance and data collection by private sector groups such as the Economic League, the Building Employers Federation, was still important. But we also had American activities to […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] 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 […]
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
[…] 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 […]
[…] is now directed at targets in the UK.’(11) Top of the form One of the by-products of the ‘War on Terror’ has been the increased used of surveillance in British schools to help identify potential suicide bombers – dataveillance, as some would term it. According to one observer, ‘the greater detail now requested for […]
