After all the Guardian’s efforts over the last several months (entirely properly in my view) to get the issue of mass surveillance on to the national agenda and to get it properly regulated to prevent systematic abuse, the paper’s sense of triumph in finally obtaining a parliamentary inquiry is in my view entirely misconceived. All […]
Posts Tagged ‘Surveillance’
The parliamentary inquiry announced into mass surveillance is a fraud
Oct 18th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.
If only we had a government we could trust, we should offer Edward Snowden asylum
Jul 15th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.Instead of pursuing Edward Snowden to the ends of the earth, as the US is doing, we should be lauding him for the huge service he has done us at enormous risk to himself. He has revealed the nature of our State and the security services which every citizen of the UK needs to […]
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What is being done to control mass surveillance?
Jul 2nd, 2013 by Michael Meacher.The cascade of revelations about secret surveillance, thanks to Edward Snowden, rolls on. Today it’s Dropmire which apparently refers to a bug inserted in an encrupted fax machine used for transmission of commercial data at the EU mission in Washington DC. Once revealed, the Americans explain it as designed to collect data on policy disagreements […]
