China’s police say they have installed 2.75 million surveillance cameras since 2003 and are expanding the system into the largely neglected countryside. The cameras are the most visible components of police surveillance and notification systems installed around the country, mainly in urban areas, according to a news release posted Monday on the Public Security Ministry’s…
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BSF demands power to arrest, search
Pointing out that it was raised for the purpose of “ensuring security of the borders and to promote a sense of security among the people living in border areas”, the Border Security Force (BSF) has asked the Central Government to give it powers that the police in India enjoy when deployed in areas other than…
Lawyer: Deutsche spied on me like the Stasi
Germany’s biggest bank has been accused of mounting a Stasi-style entrapment operation against a prominent shareholder regarded as a troublemaker. The German authorities are considering launching a criminal investigation into whether Deutsche Bank plotted a honeytrap sting on Michael Bohndorf, a tax lawyer who has bombarded the annual shareholder meetings with embarrassing questions since 2003…
A request to snoop on public every 60 seconds
Councils, police and other public bodies are seeking access to people’s private telephone and email records almost 1,400 times a day, new figures have disclosed. The authorities made more than 500,000 requests for confidential communications data last year, equivalent to spying on one in every 78 adults, leading to claims that Britain had “sleepwalked into…