Three priorities for the new home secretary post-Manchester
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Who watches the watchmen?: the case for surveillance juries
On Monday the shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper gave a speech at demos.
Someone tell the Eurosceptics who’s standing up to the US over PRISM
As we blogged a few days ago, one of the things Eurosceptics are probably rather uncomfortable with at present is the fact that it’s the European Union which is acting as a bulwark against American attempts to snoop on the browsing habits of us Europeans.
How the European Union is saving us from Prism
In a piece for Slate magazine, Matt Yglesias has pointed out a potential problem for Eurosceptics on the back of the Prism surveillance scandal. Essentially, the European Union is acting as a bulwark against American attempts to snoop on the browsing habits of us Europeans.
I believe in the state, but not the feral form that’s spying on us
Those who hate the state love leaks of the sort The Guardian has been publishing. They justify their ‘Big Brother’ view of all that is supposedly bad about government.
Making a # out of intelligence
Arguments between advocates of social media regulation and open rights campaigners lack adequate legal or ethical foundations, writes Demos’s Carl Miller.
Long term, cablegate will harm intel-sharing and US counter-terror efforts
As bloggers, foreign diplomats and freedom of information evangelists revel in what twitter invariably named #cablegate, concern should also be expressed for the long term consequences of the leak by a disillusioned US military officer.