gangstalking | July 1, 2010
Rights watchdog: Expanding FSB powers is a revival of Russian totalitarian state
06-28-2010
The Kremlin’s human rights council has opposed the idea of expanding the Federal Security Service’s (FSB) powers, saying it is anti-constitutional and would be a revival of the worst practices of a “totalitarian state”.
Russia’s presidential Council on Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights has appealed to President Medvedev…
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gangstalking | April 12, 2010
More than just a face in the crowd in ‘surveillance Britain’ – Feature
12 Apr 2010
By: DPA
London – The unsuspecting visitor to London walking beneath the silent gaze of the surveillance camera will likely be unaware of the maze of darkened control rooms beneath Piccadilly Circus, where his zoomed image makes him stand out from the crowd.
Deep below the pavements…
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gangstalking | March 23, 2010
Germans piece together millions of shredded Stasi secrets
March 22, 2010
STASI files before being put together by the E Puzzler scanning machine. Picture: Chris Harris for The Times Source: The Times
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Dr Betram Nickolay, head of Security Dept Technology, with STASI files reconstructed by the E Puzzler scanning machine. Picture: Chris Harris for The Times Source: The Times
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gangstalking | February 22, 2010
Chinese police chief boasts of recruiting one in 33 residents as informants
Glimpse of country’s surveillance network shows priorities are to suppress complaints and root out ‘non-harmonious elements’
The shadow of the state surveillance network looms over everyday life in China.
The shadow of the state surveillance network looms over everyday life in China. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
A Chinese police chief has boasted of…
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gangstalking | February 16, 2010
Critics Blast Informant System Cloaked In Secrecy
by Carrie Kahn
February 12, 2010
Informants can get more attention in the movies than they do in the media — like Henry Hill, the real-life mobster turned FBI snitch who was immortalized in the 1990 gangster flick Goodfellas.
Hollywood told the lurid story of how Hill stayed inside the New York mob while supplying the FBI…
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gangstalking | February 1, 2010
The dangers of state surveillance
Encouraged by terror laws, the authorities are increasingly using surveillance techniques in trivial circumstances
The abuse of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, Ripa, is by far the largest element in the revelation last August that 500,000 official requests to access phone and email records were made in 2008 – the equivalent of one in 78 adults coming under…
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gangstalking | December 27, 2009
Telecom firms’ fury at plan for ‘Stasi’ checks on every phone call and email
By Jonathan Petre, and Tom Harper
27th December 2009
Phone companies have criticised Britain’s growing ‘surveillance culture’
Telecoms firms have accused the Government of acting like the East German Stasi over plans to force them to store the details of every phone call for at least a year.
Under the…
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Tags: Emails, Stasi, Telecom Firms, Telephone Calls