Mark Kennedy report to rule out monitoring of undercover police
Police failed to supervise officer who spied on green protesters and Kennedy did not tell superiors what he was doing Sandra Laville and Rob Evans A long-awaited inquiry is expected to rule out tough independent oversight of the deployment of undercover police officers in the wake of the case of Mark Kennedy and environmental protesters, […]
Multi million dollar CHOGM command centre unveiled
A new multi million dollar state-of-the-art police command centre built for the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting has been unveiled today at Maylands. WA Police will command its entire security operation for CHOGM from the facility. It will house 100 personnel and is fitted out with high tech communication facilities and CCTV. The Police Minister […]
Interpol, Europol set up strategic links
Interpol and the European police force announced the signing in France of an agreement to coordinate efforts to tackle transnational organized crime. „Identifying and developing areas for future joint actions between Europol and Interpol is very important to us and key to providing an even more integrated service to the international police community on both […]
Verdict on Mark Kennedy out next week
Police spy Mark Kennedy will hear next Thursday if he has been criticised in an official review The delayed report into Mark Kennedy and the work of undercover police officers in protest groups is due to be published next Thursday (October 20). It was due to be published in the summer, but it was pushed […]
ANPR ‘ring of steel’ tightens around Royston
By Ewan Foskett THE controversial automatic number plate recognition ‘ring of steel’ has almost been completed around Royston with the majority of cameras installed. It is unknown if the devices are all fully operational and Hertfordshire Constabulary will not reveal the location of the cameras – which will make the town the first in the […]
Broadsides: Police surveillance bill
JACINDA ARDERN You know that an issue is particularly difficult when a Minister calls an opposition spokesperson to pre-brief them on a bill that’s yet to come before Parliament. That’s exactly what happened several weeks ago when it became clear, via the Urewera raids case, that we had a severe problem with our search and […]
STOP CASTOR Action Camp 22-24th November in Valognes, France
Organised by a group of motivated people, please spread far and wide INVITATION FOR A BIG CAMP AND MASS ACTION AGAINST THE NUCLEAR TRANSPORT CASTOR IN VALOGNES (FRANCE) FROM THE 22ND TO 24TH OF NOVEMBER 2011, JUST ACROSS THE CHANNEL The french and the english government have this common feature of being mad about nuclear […]
Abandoned by Government, Migrants Face Increasing Violence Near Tripoli
Tripoli/Washington, D.C. – More than 600 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa are effectively stranded at a port just outside the Libyan capital, and have been left to fend for themselves by Libyan authorities. Despite repeated attacks, harassment, and arbitrary arrests by Libyan gangs over the course of four months, they have received no protection from the […]
New rules on Frontex adopted – Strengthening the European external borders agency
The Council adopted today the new rules for Frontex, the European Agency for the management of operational cooperation at the external borders of the EU (PE-CONS 37/11). On 13 September 2011, the European Parliament had already given its green light to the compromise agreement reached between Council and Parliament in June. As a last step, […]
Tunisian government got discounts on surveillance software in exchange for bug-tracking
As dictatorships slowly begin to topple throughout the Middle East, more and more information is being revealed about the extent to which online activity was monitored in these countries. The sheer scale of Libya’s Internet monitoring system was revealed when journalists and Libyan rebels gained access to Gadhafi’s intelligence agency, while in Egypt and Tunisia […]
EU Curbs Export of Surveillance Systems
By Vernon Silver The European Union will curb the export of telephone- and data-interception technology to nations that use the tools to violate human rights, following reports that Western surveillance gear was used to track dissidents in Middle East crackdowns. The European Parliament voted today in Strasbourg, France, to bar overseas sales of systems that […]
Frontex – new customer for the arms industry
Last week the European Parliament voted largely in favour of a stronger mandate for Frontex, the EU border control agency. One of the changes is that Frontex is now allowed to buy or lease its own equipment, such as patrol boats and helicopters. New opportunities for the defense industry! Before Frontex was completely depending on […]
Homeland Security moves forward with ‚pre-crime‘ detection
An internal U.S. Department of Homeland Security document indicates that a controversial program designed to predict whether a person will commit a crime is already being tested on some members of the public voluntarily, CNET has learned. If this sounds a bit like the Tom Cruise movie called „Minority Report,“ or the CBS drama „Person […]
Suspected “anarchist guerilla” of Moscow released, but investigations are going on (Russia)
On the 28th and 29th of September, 2011, four persons (two young men and two young women) were detained in Moscow, suspected of crimes under statute 213 part 2 (“hooliganism”) and statute 167 part 2 (“property destruction with arson”) of Russian criminal codex. They are suspected of having committed a bomb attack against traffic police […]
Mark Kennedy in the twilight zone
Corporate spies operate in extreme secrecy, but what was police spy Mark Kennedy doing in this furtive world? We are planning to devote one of the chapters in the book to the subject of corporate spies. Of course, it is a business which loves the shadows, so it is difficult to know exactly how many […]
Final Declaration: Defending the rights of migrants, rebalancing multilateral relations and liberating migrants movements in the Mediterranean
Colloquium Rethinking Migrations: For Freedom of Movement in the Mediterranean. Tunis Sept. 30th – Oct. 1st 2011 The Arab Revolutions of Spring 2011 invite us to reinvent multilateral relations within the Mediterranean See. Organisations and researchers from South and North have gathered in Tunis under the Colloquium title “Rethinking Migrations: For Freedom of Movement in […]
Using space technology to upgrade squatter camps
I recently spoke to a friend of mine at Denel Dynamics about how exactly the technology they are developing for the weapons industry helps us ordinary people – and one of the projects she told me about was the ugrade of informal settlements in the North-West province – you can’t go more “ordinary” than that. […]
Aims of Data Mining in the Counter-Terrorism Context
As with enterprise management as noted above, intelligence and investigatory work in the field of counter-terrorism also faces the problem of information overload. One of the primary themes of the findings of the 9/11 Commission was that information pertaining to the unfolding of the 9/11 plot was available within intelligence files and databases, but that […]
The Photos Mark Kennedy Didn’t Want The World To See
Fuck Mark Kennedy, his crocodile tears, and his fucking documentary. Undercover slimeball cop Mark Kennedy is still busy telling lies and conning people, as the forthcoming Channel 4 “documentary” about his activities demonstrates to anyone who actually had dealings with the sleazy scumbag. As every activist who knew him as Mark Stone knows, Kennedy has […]
EU backs project to monitor Mauritania borders
With trans-border crime and the threat of terrorism on the rise, the EU is set to help Mauritania keep a handle on the vast Sahel frontier. By Jemal Oumar The European Union recently unveiled plans to boost Mauritanian border security with advanced technology, stepped up training and personnel exchange programmes. The „West Sahel Project“ is […]