Paul Lewis reports: Police in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially deployed in Afghanistan, for the ”routine” monitoring of antisocial motorists, protesters, agricultural thieves and fly-tippers, in a significant expansion of covert state surveillance. The arms manufacturer BAE Systems, which produces a range of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for war zones,…
Category: Non-U.S.
European Union Rejects US Demands on Body Scanners
From EPIC.org: EU President Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba announced today that European countries would not rush to install body scanners as the United States has urged. He said that there will first be studies to determine whether the devices “are effective, do not harm health, and do not violate privacy.” The European countries have agreed that…
Il: Detective Hired by Deripaska’s Employee to Wiretap Cherney Sentenced in Tel-Avi
On January 13th, 2010 the Tel Aviv Court handed down its first verdict in the case of illegal eavesdropping on businessman and philanthropist Michael Cherney. Illegal spying was commissioned by a Russian citizen, who at the time was an executive in Oleg Deripaska’s empire. On January 13, the Tel Aviv Court confirmed the plea bargain…
B.C. Information and Privacy Commissioner moving on up
David Loukidelis has been appointed Deputy Attorney General. The appointment will be effective February 1, 2010. Loukidelis will replace acting Deputy Attorney General, Jerry McHale, Q.C., who was appointed in October 2009 on an interim basis after Allan Seckel, Q.C., was appointed Deputy Minister to the Premier, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the British Columbia…