John Catt and his daughter Linda have brought a case against ACPO and the Metropolitan police to challenge the legality of the publicly funded, secret 'domestic extremist' intelligence database run by the NPOIU. Since 2005 they have been recorded over 80 times in the database for exercising their democratic right to protest. London, UK, 09/02/2012.

A major database of criminals, victims and other people has been formally launched by the National Policing Improvement Agency, although police forces are already using it.

Jennie Cronin, director of the database programme at the NPIA, has announced the launch of the Police National Database (PND). 

The Police National Database (PND), launched on Wednesday, contains the details of between 10…

Geotime software, bought by the Met, collates data from social networking sites, satnavs, mobiles and financial transactions

Britain's largest police force is using software that can map nearly every move suspects and their associates make in the digital world, prompting an outcry from civil liberties groups.

The Metropolitan police has bought Geotime, a security programme used by the US milit…

More than ever, law enforcement agencies are connecting to far flung sources of information in the fight against terrorism. Now Virginia's i2 Group is offering p…

speaking recently to several people caught up in the pre-wedding police raids on squats, a pattern has emerged. having just read a guardian article on snoop software supplied to governments, i offer an alert to activists who may have had computer equipment seized.

The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda.

A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United States Central Command (Centcom), which oversees US armed operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, to develop what is described a…

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Some surveillance seen on student demos yesterday.

Investigation of the street level environment of the spooky CCTV centre below Piccadilly Circus, on occasion of the second Life is too short to be controlled demo by NoBorders.

Lovely.

"Life is too short to be controlled - part II" , 30th October 2010, short video snippet of the demo arrives in St.Pancras International Terminal.

The Justice for Aafia Coalition held a vigil for Aafia Siddiqui outside the American Embassy in London. Tomorrow she faces trial in America with a minimum sentence of 30 years imprisonment. London, UK. 22/09/2010.

America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon.

In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at usi…

Sparkled from some articles posted to Indymedia London recently about Non Corporate Social Networks and a report from the Software Summit that took place in Whitechapel, as well as an audio interview to Eben Moglen of the Free Software Foundation also published to this site not long ago,  I share below some of the reasons why I think corporate social nut-workin is so cool!

The first Hyperactive Summit was held this past weekend, 7-9 May 2010. The meeting was a mix of politics and technology centering around issues of free code, autonomous/anarchist social movements, grassroots reporting, and state and corporate surveillance. It had a special focus on the Hyperactive content management system used by London Indymedia, which was built by the London collective over the…

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In a recent speech which was very much in line with discussions happening inside Indymedia London during the past two years, Eben Moglen of the Free Software Foundation and the Software Freedom Law Centre recently gave a speech deriding Facebook and Google for their dangerous, privacy-killing, corporate-owned software systems.

Moglen called for the creation of a Free Software distributed social n…

Listen to an interview with David Mery on reclaiming his DNA...

Three former heads of MI5 chart the changing face of spying. In exclusive interviews with the BBC's Security Correspondent Gordon Corera, they show how MI5 changed from chasing Cold War subversives to hunting down terrorists.

Talk and discussion by London NoBorders@Pogo cafe, 76 Clarence Road

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A California court has issued a subpoena demanding Google reveal the IP addresses of journalists writing for a corruption busting journal from the Caribbean. [...]

According to the notifying letter from Google to the Journal, Google intends to hand over the requested records in just over two weeks, without any defense, and states that the Journal may file a counter-motion with the Santa-Clara co…

On 2 May about 60 people gathered outside city hall to await the London election results and protest against the lack of choice generally and the BNP specifically. The protest was set up at the riverside, opposite city hall, people were holding up banners and the only persons obstructing the highway were police and photographers. But police soon decided that there might be a chance of peace being …