Exclusive: Body scanners to screen visitors at London Live sites
Louise Ridley Body and bag scanners will screen visitors at London Live events during the Olympics, in airport-style safety checks that organisers say could take up to an hour. The tight security will be in place at the Hyde Park and Victoria Park sites which will broadcast Olympic Games coverage on big screens and hold […]
Common responses to current challenges by Member States most affected by secondary mixed migration flows
Brussels, 9 March 2012 7431/12 NOTE from: the Belgian, the French, the German, The Netherlands, the Austrian, the Swedish and the UK delegations The Ministers responsible for migration of Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom, with the Danish EU Presidency as observer, met in Brussels on 7 March 2012 to […]
Libya and its neighbours to cooperate on immigration
Libya and its neighbours have agreed to cooperate on issues of regional security, including illegal immigration, interim Prime Minister Abdel Rahim al-Kib said today. „We have adopted the Tripoli action plan on regional cooperation and border control,“ Kib told reporters in Tripoli at the end of a two-day regional conference on border security. The agreement […]
Lufthansa says they aren’t responsible for their agents and contractors
Lufthansa finally sent me the history (change log) portion of my PNR data but continues to claim that it isn’t responsible for either its retail agent Vayama.com (who created the PNR as an agent of Lufthansa) or the wholesale consolidator Transam Travel (who issue the ticket as an agent of Lufthansa). The LDI-NRW upheld Lufthansa’s […]
Gathering intelligence on the recruitment and use of informers
The problem with doing research on informers is that much of the information is kept secret Louise Tickle Stories about the controversial use of informers have hit the headlines recently, with the planting of police officers in environmental groups causing serious embarrassment when it was found they’d had relationships and fathered children with activists. Reports of […]
Legal action initiated in UK as drone strikes continue in Pakistan, Yemen and Gaza
It was announced yesterday that a legal proceedings will be initiated in the High Court in London to challenge British complicity in US drone strikes in Pakistan. Reprieve together with Leigh Day & Co, acting on behalf of the family of Malik Daud Khan, one of 40 people killed in a CIA drone strike on […]
Watchdog names „Enemies of the Internet“
The Arab Spring is changing the face of Internet freedom, according to Reporters Without Borders, which released its latest „Enemies of the Internet“ list Monday. The annual report classifies as „enemies“ countries that severely curtail freedom of expression on and access to the Web. It also draws up a list of states „under surveillance.“ The […]
China suspected of Facebook attack on Nato’s supreme allied commander
Beijing cyber-spies accused of using fake social networking accounts in bid to steal military secrets from the west Nick Hopkins Nato’s most senior military commander has been repeatedly targeted in a Facebook scam thought to have been co-ordinated by cyber-spies in China, the Observer has learned. The spies are suspected of being behind a campaign […]
Head of UK crime agency’s visit to INTERPOL focuses on security cooperation ahead of London Olympics
Security at the upcoming London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics was a key area for discussion during today’s meeting between the Director General of the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), Trevor Pearce, and INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble. During his visit to INTERPOL’s General Secretariat headquarters, the SOCA Chief was briefed on INTERPOL’s range […]
Israelis build the world’s biggest detention centre
Thousands of African asylum-seekers fleeing persecution could end up in Negev desert camp Catrina Stewart Israel is to begin construction soon on a vast detention facility in the Negev desert to house the thousands of immigrants that cross illegally into Israel from Egypt every year. Human rights groups fear that the detention centre, the largest […]
The reinforcement of Frontex and the intensification of cooperation with third countries
Amendments to Regulation 2004/2007 reinforcing the powers and widening the mandate of the European Agency for the Management of External Borders entered into force in January 2012.[1] Some of the amendments broaden the Agency’s mandate when dealing with third countries. These developments of the Agency’s external relations reflect the ambitions of Frontex, and reinforce concerns […]
Revealed: government plans for police privatisation
West Midlands and Surrey police offer £1.5bn contract under which private firms may investigate crime and detain suspects Alan Travis and Zoe Williams Private companies could take responsibility for investigating crimes, patrolling neighbourhoods and even detaining suspects under a radical privatisation plan being put forward by two of the largest police forces in the country. […]
Anonymous hackers claim they were infiltrated
By FRANK BAJAK LIMA, Peru (AP) — People identifying themselves as activists in the Anonymous hacker movement said Wednesday it wasn’t technical prowess but police infiltration that yielded 25 arrests in a sweep in Europe and South America. In conversations in an online chat room where Spanish-speaking activists in the Americas and Spain regularly gather, […]
UK joins EU deal to share air travellers‘ data with US
Home Office minister confirms government has signed up to EU-US agreement on passenger name records Sade Lajay The UK has opted in to the EU passenger name record (PNR) agreement with the United States, Home Office minister Damien Green has confirmed. „The UK, in common with many other EU member states and third countries, places […]
Mexico Adopts Alarming Surveillance Legislation
The Mexican legislature today adopted a surveillance legislation that will grant the police warrantless access to real time user location data. The bill was adopted almost unanimously with 315 votes in favor, 6 against, and 7 abstentions. It has been sent to the President for his approval. There is significant potential for abuse of these […]
Azerbaijani law enforcement agencies issue statement on unauthorized rally in Guba
Law enforcement agencies of Azerbaijan have begun an investigation into the unauthorized rally in Guba, joint statement of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan and the General Prosecutor’s Office said on Thursday. The statement says that today, on March 1, about 1,000 residents at 10:00 a.m. staged protest action in front of the building […]
Inside INTERPOL’s New Cybercrime Innovation Center
INTERPOL, the international policing agency, is opening a massive innovation center in Singapore in 2014. At the center, law enforcement will learn all about the latest cybercrimes… and have access to cutting-edge forensics laboratories and research stations. INTERPOL, the international policing organization, is building a law enforcement tech geek heaven in Singapore. The INTERPOL Global […]
e-GEOS (ASI/Telespazio) to Provide Satellite Data and Maps for Emergency Management
e-GEOS (80%-owned by Telespazio and 20%-owned by the Italian Space Agency) has won two tenders launched by the European Commission worth a total of EUR 9.6 million, as part of the GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) programme. The Italian company, which operates in the Earth observation services sector, will provide geospatial information and […]
Anti-Frontex Days
Euro Apartheid 2012: No traveler is illegal! May 18-23 Warsaw, Poland Throughout May and June of this year, Warsaw is to become the exhibition center of European apartheid. During these months, as Euro 2012 fans take in the international atmosphere of the tournament in beer parks specially set up for them around the city, Frontex, […]
Hacktivists arrested in Spain
With the support of Europol, Spanish National Police have arrested four persons in a coordinated operation against hacktivists claiming to be part of the Anonymous collective. The operation, named Operation Thunder, is the result of an investigation which began in June 2011 against a group of hackers responsible for a number of DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) […]