Spies in disguise: Fashion secrets of the Stasi revealed (and it’s not quite as incognito as you might think)
By Allan Hall
4th August 2011

For a profession as covert as theirs, you might have thought the Stasi would kit out their spies with an inconspicuous wardrobe to aid them in their secretive work.

However far from blending in, a new exhibition has revealed…

Brave New World
By Andrea Grimes
Oct 7 2010

Brave new world: All citizens are agents of the state, charged with keeping watch on every other citizen and reporting activities detrimental to good order. Unorthodoxy is suspicious.

Remember when that used to be considered a bad thing?

Look, we don’t want to overstate the situation here, but we’ve heard about the old U.S.S.R., and…

Government Forces Teachers To Spy On 3-Year-Old Children’s “Racism”
Sept 23, 2010

Teachers are being forced to report children as young as three to the authorities for using alleged ‘racist’ language, it was claimed last night.

Munira Mirza, a senior advisor to London Mayor Boris Johnson, said schools were being made to spy on nursery age youngsters by the Race Relations Act 2000.…

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…

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…

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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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…