gangstalking | March 11, 2010
What are my legal rights if I’m under covert surveillance?
politicalactivist suspects he is under police surveillance as a result of political activities. How does this affect his legal rights?
What are politicalactivist’s rights if he is under police surveillance? Photograph: Alamy
politicalactivist writes:
“As a result of legal political activities, I am fairly certain that I am monitored under according to the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. For example, I am fairly certain that a car that I have regular use of and my home are bugged by the authorities.
Please advise me how being watched in such a manner affects my legal rights. For example, what are the implications should I be charged with a criminal offence and appear in court to defend myself?”
The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (Ripa), which came into force on the same day in 2000 as the Human Rights Act, provides a legal basis for various covert investigatory techniques. It is no coincidence that the two statutes came into force on the same day. Through the 1980s and 1990s the European court of human rights repeatedly found the United Kingdom in breach of article 8 (right to respect for private life) because there was an insufficiently clear legal basis for various investigatory techniques used by the police; the UK fell foul of the requirement that any interference with a person’s privacy must be “in accordance with the law”.
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Tags: Activists, police surveillance, R.I.P.A., Rights, Surviellance
gangstalking | January 20, 2010
Helluva Week for Net Neutrality
By Megan Tady, January 15, 2010
It’s been one amazing week for Net Neutrality. Nearly 19,000 people filed pro-Net Neutrality comments with the FCC before the docket closed at midnight Thursday night. It was a remarkable outpouring of public support.
And just before the bell tolled, Free Press filed a whopping 198 pages of comments, offering compelling evidence that Net Neutrality rules will promote investment, encourage innovation, create jobs, and spur competition.
In its filing, Free Press not only shows that Net Neutrality promotes investment, but that losing this fundamental protection would unleash harmful, anti-consumer business models. Free Press argues that the true motive of the phone and cable companies trying to dismantle Net Neutrality is to protect their legacy voice and video services from the competition enabled by the open Internet.
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gangstalking | October 12, 2009
Defamation and anti-social behaviour
Published by Francis Davey
14 July 2009
Clift v Slough Borough Council [2009] EWHC 1550 considers the extent to which a local authority has an interest or duty to pass on allegations about anti-social behaviour to its employees and contractors for the purposes of the defence of qualified to a claim for defamation. It is also an example of the all too common situation of a victim being targeted as a perpetrator.
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Tags: Council, Gang Stalking, Harassment, Housing, Jane Clift, Laws, Mobbing, Stories, U.K., Violent Persons Registry
gangstalking | October 12, 2009
I was turned into a Parriah for complaining about a yob
Jane Clift saw it as her public duty to report a drunk she saw trampling flowers in a park.
But her efforts led to a surreal nightmare in which she was branded potentially violent and put on a council blacklist with thugs and sex attackers.
Her details were circulated to an extraordinary range of public and private bodies, including doctors, dentists, opticians, libraries, contraceptive clinics, schools and nurseries. Their staff were advised not to see her alone.
The 43-year-old former care worker was forced to withdraw an application to become a foster parent and, eventually, to leave the town where she had lived for ten years.
Now, after a bitter four-year legal battle with Slough Council, the stain on her character has finally been removed.
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Tags: Community Stalking, Councils, Gang Stalking, Jane Clift, Law, Laws, Stories, U.K., Violent Persons Registry
gangstalking | September 3, 2009
Hate speech law unconstitutional: rights tribunal
Joseph Brean, National Post Published: Wednesday, September 02, 2009
The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal on Wednesday ruled that Section 13, Canada’s much maligned human rights hate speech law, violates the Charter right to free expression because it carries the threat of punitive fines.
The shocking decision by Tribunal member Athanasios Hadjis leaves several hate speech cases in limbo, and appears to strip the Canadian Human Rights Commission of its controversial legal mandate to pursue hate on the Internet, which it has strenuously defended against complaints of censorship.
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gangstalking | April 30, 2009
You mean to tell me that it is legal for corporations from the private sector to team up with local law enforcement officials in efforts to spy on innocent members of our society? You also mean to tell me that the synthesis of law enforcement authority and the drive of for-profit companies operate under little to no guidelines or restrictions and it is unclear to whom they are responsible to?
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Tags: ACLU, Fusion Centers, Law, New York Times, Surveillance
gangstalking | December 16, 2008
Court sides with ACLU, strikes down Patriot Act gag provision
Tuesday December 16, 2008
ACLU victorious as federal court declares Patriot Act provision a violation of the First Amendment
A federal appeals court ruling late Monday is the cause célèbre of the American Civil Liberties Union, as another provision of the Bush administration’s Patriot Act falls to the judicial system.
Until the ruling, recipients of so-called “national security letters” were legally forbidden from speaking out. The letters, usually a demand for documents, or a notice that private records had been searched by government authorities, were criticized as a cover-all for FBI abuses.
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