Fri, 01 Jan 2010

Blog posts in 2009

• December
  • Interviewed by the Londonist
  • A visit to SIAC - U to remain in jail
  • Demanding justice for Ian Tomlinson
• November
  • Moving on for the de Menezes family
  • Strasbourg finds Home Office's DNA retention plans lacking
• October
  • Calling for an end to the use of secret evidence
  • Ultimatum issued to the ACPO to change its guidance on the retention of DNA
  • Shooting the principles of policing in the foot
  • National DNA Database, more and less of the same
  • Some recent DNA-related news
  • More than 500 responses to the DNA database consultation
  • Exposing MI5 blackmail
• September
  • Metropolitan Police Service apologises for unlawful arrest
  • Department of potential evidences - fantasy or reality
  • Voting is optional but registration is compulsory, as is sharing your personal data
• August
  • Notes on the PNC
  • Sean Rigg - no justice, no peace, no CCTV footage
  • Acpo's advice to chief constables about DNA retention: don't change anything
  • DNA, a forensic silver bullet?
  • Recordable offences
  • A response to the Home Office consultation on DNA retention
  • Engaging in the DNA database debate
• July
  • DNA database unauthorised use and data loss, and incorrect storing of DNA samples
  • Making innocents into honorary criminals
  • Home Office's arrogant approach to the DNA consultation
  • National DNA Database custodian annual report
• June
  • National DNA Database - a review of the general measures
  • Secret evidence undermines the right to a fair trial
  • Information retained in the National DNA Database profile records
  • Law Lords rule use of secret evidence is unfair
  • Pan African community evening about abuses to our civil liberties
  • Sentenced to genetic probation
  • Stop and search under the Terrorism Act
• May
  • Growth of the National DNA Database increases the risk of miscarriages
  • Mobile phones, tracking, data remanence, dataveillance and privacy - updates
  • Sky News Sunrise on Thursday at 8.15am
• April
  • Step-by-step guide to reclaim your DNA
  • Why are you sending me to prison? I cannot tell you that
  • Soon to be former suspects
  • Public order tactics and the Lucifer effect
  • Those who are to be convicted
  • Missing CCTV footage - again
  • Voluntary electronic tagging
  • A public inquiry into police brutality is necessary
• March
  • Home Secretary redefines terrorism as about trying to undermine shared values
  • The objective should not be to fight terrorists but to defeat them
  • National DNA Database: exceptional cases
  • Government postpones its information sharing plans
  • Police call for a climate of fear
  • Cease-Fear
  • From age 1- to 90+... everyone's DNA welcome as Jacqui holds the biobank
  • 'Crossing a line' - a poem by Kent police
  • Three months on, you still can't get off the DNA database
• February
  • Above the law
  • A simple guide to the Freedom of Information and Data Protection Acts
  • Snap a copper and get ten years in the slammer - (mis)interpretations
  • Unintended consequences of legislation on our basic rights and freedoms
  • GMP recruiting counter-terrorism informers - in hair salons
  • Seven years of counter-terrorism policies - enough
  • No prosecution for any offence arising either out of the death of Jean Charles de Menezes or for evidence given at the inquest
  • Poor at mind reading? Snap a copper and get ten years in the slammer
  • Risk assessment
  • Authoritative sources, independent sources and fact checking
  • Hostile reconnaissance - no conviction yet but trials coming
• January
  • Human rights in the civil courts and a convention on modern liberty
  • The end of privacy in the UK
  • Stop'n'search gets touchy-feely
  • Been arrested, DNA sampled, are innocent and want to participate in an experiment?
  • The House of Common server was not accessed by the police

For a list of all the posts on this blog check out the blog archive.

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