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Chinese police chief boasts of recruiting one in 33 residents as informants

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 recruiting one in every 33 local residents as an informant, official media reported today.

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Critics Blast Informant System Cloaked In Secrecy

gangstalking | February 16, 2010

Critics Blast Informant System Cloaked In Secrecy

by Carrie Kahn
February 12, 2010

Loyola Law School professor Alexandra Natapoff, author of the new book Snitching, says the public has no clue about the thousands of informants now on the government payroll.

“It’s a very clandestine, secretive and unregulated arena that yet influences the outcome of millions of cases and investigations,” she says. “It shapes the way we lawyer, it shapes the way we judge, and it shapes what we call fair and good. And yet, we don’t see any evidence of it pop up on the public record.”

Natapoff says the use of informants is on the rise, especially in the government’s ongoing war on drugs. She worries that far too often, police and prosecutors hire informants who continue committing the worst kinds of crimes. She says these deals with the devil compromise America’s judicial system and betray its national integrity.

“There is no one in the system who knows how many snitches there are,” she says. “Nobody knows how many crimes they commit. No one knows how many they solve. There are no mechanisms for keeping track of this massive public policy that, in effect, makes decisions for us every day.”

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The dangers of state surveillance

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 some form of surveillance by the authorities in the United Kingdom.

The issue here is about abuse and proportionality, not whether the law has been broken. Two recent reports suggest that the surveillance of people for misdemeanours is unlikely to decline despite assurances from the government and Home Office that local authorities were being reined in.

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Telecom firms’ fury at plan for ‘Stasi’ checks on every phone call and email

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 proposals, the details of every email sent and website visited will also be recorded to help the police and security services fight crime and terrorism.

But mobile phone companies have attacked the plans as a massive assault on privacy and warned it could be the first step towards a centralised ‘Big Brother’ database.

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New iWatch Program Urges Citizens to Be ‘Eyes and Ears’ Against Terror Plots

gangstalking | November 8, 2009

Iwatch Nationwide Community Watch Program

New iWatch Program Urges Citizens to Be ‘Eyes and Ears’ Against Terror Plots, iWatch is a nationwide community watch program

A new program aimed at keeping Americans safe from terror attacks will rely on individual citizens to serve as “the eyes and ears” of their communities.

iWatch is a community watch program endorsed by police chiefs across the U.S. that teaches people how to detect suspicious behavior and report it to police.

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Stasi files still cast shadow, 20 years after Berlin Wall fell

gangstalking | November 2, 2009

Stasi files still cast shadow, 20 years after Berlin Wall fell
Thu Oct 29, 2009 5:36am EDT

By Sarah Marsh

BERLIN (Reuters) – For decades, Joachim Fritsch struggled to understand why he was being denied access to higher education and passed over for job promotions again and again.

Then he got hold of a 400-page file East Germany’s dreaded secret police had compiled on him. The Stasi had arrested him back in the mid-1950s when he was just 17 years old and branded him a “provocateur” for failing to produce his identity card.

The arrest left an indelible mark on his record, leading the Stasi to watch him closely and thwart repeated attempts by Fritsch to get on with his life.

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Mother reunited with daughter 38 years after she was stolen by the Stasi in former East Germany

gangstalking | October 2, 2009

Mother reunited with daughter 38 years after she was stolen by the Stasi in former East Germany

By Allan Hall
02nd October 2009

A mother whose children were taken away by the Stasi secret police of former East Germany has been reunited with one of them nearly 40 years after she was born.

Petra Hoffman, 55, hugged her daughter Mandy Reinhardt, 38, for the first time this week since agents of the hard line Communist regime took her away shortly after she was born.

Ms Reinhardt was born in 1971 when her mother was just 16 and worked in a government cafeteria.

But the father was a man the state disapproved of after he had served prison time for speaking out against the imperfections of life in totalitarian East Germany.

‘The Youth Welfare people came to my door one day, said I was not a fit person to be a mother,’ said Mrs Hoffman.

‘They put me and her into a home. Days later, against my will, Mandy was given up for adoption.’

This was a common practice invoked by the Stasi against its enemies. Rather than resorting to crude torture or beatings, it tried to crush the will of those who displease it with the cruellest psychological pressures.

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