Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] Meanwhile, Kevin J. Lawner ruminates on the impact that the Echelon interception system might have on the right to privacy, concluding that the National Security Agency’s ‘…… surveillance activities in Europe must be subject to rigorous oversight, and guarantees must be provided to safeguard against abuse’. Alan A. Block, ‘The National Intelligence Service […]
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] “the badger” is responsible for scheduling the Gardai border patrols. Through “the badger’s knowledge of Gardai operational details, the RUC’s paramilitary Special Support Unit and E4A covert surveillance team, and Loyalists on orders from the SMIU were able to launch a series of cross-border incursions which, according to Holroyd, involved one murder, two attempted […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
A history of ASIO and National Surveillance Frank Cain Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2009, p/b, $39.95. ISBN 978 1 921509 322 Frank Cain was just a name to me but a little googling showed that he is Australia’s leading academic historian of intelligence and security history. This history of ASIO and its antecedents – […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] European Parliament’s Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs Committee, and prepared by the Omega Foundation in March 1997, the report comprehensively examines all aspects of political control, including surveillance technologies, telecommunications interception (including ECHELON – see elsewhere in this issue); crowd control and ‘less than lethal’ weapons including MW and accoustic disabling systems; prisoner control […]
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] front organisation. And if an organisation is committed, ultimately, to overthrowing the government, this must make any and all of its members and sympathisers legitimate targets for surveillance. They may not appear to be up to very much, but keep watching: after all, ‘we do not know today what we will need tomorrow’, in […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] only head of counter-intelligence, but also CIA liaison with the Israelis and the FBI; he ran labour operations in Europe with Jay Lovestone; took responsibility for the surveillance of the American opposition to the Vietnam War; and, finally and fatally for his career, obsessively poked through the CIA for a ‘mole’ he believed was […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] such astounding technology has been patchy and anecdotal.(1) But the report confirms that the citizens of Britain and other European states are subject to an intensity of surveillance far in excess of that imagined by most parliaments. Its findings are certain to excite the concern of MEPs. ‘The ECHELON system forms part of the […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] and democratic values in new computer and communications technologies.’ A lot of info on the U.S. debate on electronic privacy and the FBI’s attempts to have greater surveillance powers with regard to wireraps and digital/computer communications, e.g. via key recovery. Issues include: cryptography; civil liberties; free speech; privacy; Congress and the Net; counter terrorism; […]
