Chris Cheesman reports: Police carried out 66% more stops and searches under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act in 2008/2009 than the year before, government figures show today. Amateur Photographer (AP) magazine can reveal that police made 210,013 stops and searches under the controversial anti-terrorism legislation in 2008/2009. However, only 0.6% of searches led to…
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‘First’ nationwide drink ban given to Bromsgrove woman
I’m not really a drinker, but can you imagine being legally barred from ordering an alcoholic beverage in a public place or even going into any bar in this country for two years? Such seems to be the case in the U.K. The BBC reports: A 20-year-old woman is thought to be the first person…
To tweet or to delete?
Peter Fleischer blogs: How would you resolve the conflict between the cultural imperative to archive human knowledge and the privacy imperative to delete some of it? To put this in perspective, compare the approaches of the US Library of Congress and the French Senate. As reported by The New York Times, the “the Library of…
Halifax court orders newspaper to cough up names of anonymous commentators
A Nova Scotia judge has ordered a newspaper and Google Inc. to cough up whatever details they possess about the identities of people who posted comments anonymously about Halifax’s top firefighters. Halifax fire Chief Bill Mosher and Deputy Chief Stephen Thurber are considering a lawsuit against people who posted critical comments about them on the…