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• UK government sneaks surveillance laws inside Counter Terrorism bill - ITProPortal

  24-01-2015 17:13
  
  Gizmodo UK
  UK government sneaks surveillance laws inside Counter Terrorism bill
  ITProPortal
  Currently, the government has to apply for a warrant to see a user's basic information online, like time, date and IP address, but the new law could make warrantless demands on millions of internet users daily activities, including chat logs in games ...
  Britons: You Have 72 Hours to Stop The Snooper's CharterEFF
  Net firms condemn revival of 'snoopers' charter'BBC News
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• When is a crime of hatred not a hate crime? | Marc Silver

  24-01-2015 14:39
  
  The United States brands itself ‘post-racial’ but has never overcome its long history of racism, as the murder of Jordan Davis by Michael Dunn showsI saw the story of America in three and a half minutes. They took place on Black Friday, 2012, in a gas station parking lot in Jacksonville, Florida. There, a white middle-aged software engineer named Michael Dunn argued with a black teenager, Jordan Davis, about the volume of the music playing in Davis’s car. Once those three and a half minute
  
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• Net firms condemn revival of 'snoopers' charter' - BBC News

  24-01-2015 00:24
  
  BBC News
  Net firms condemn revival of 'snoopers' charter'
  BBC News
  It would also make the logged data more easily accessible to law enforcement and security services. The 18-page addition was "ill-judged" and "regrettable" said the ISP Association (Ispa). The Open Rights Group, ... The amendment comes as the UK ...
  Comment: They're smuggling the snoopers' charter into law – but we don't even ...Politics.co.uk
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• UK professor talks about law, preventing lawmakers from being arrested - WKYT

  24-01-2015 00:02
  
  WKYT
  UK professor talks about law, preventing lawmakers from being arrested
  WKYT
  "It grew out of abuses of the legal system by the kings of England among other sources," Voss said. He said in those days, before our legal system had been firmly established, people who disagreed with a lawmakers position would do whatever they could ...
  
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