2022 posts
Nov
Find out what Spectrum 10K is really about
Oct
Information Commissioner’s Office orders University of Cambridge to disclose withheld information about Spectrum 10K
Sep
Scans of EXE Magazine
2021 posts
July
Jul
Dinah Murray, a friend proud to be weird
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December
We do not want to be better served by the justice system, we want a better system
‘Why a European autism research program has sparked fears of eugenics’
About spoons and spudgers
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: community repair for neurodivergents
November
An Auternative research questionnaire
September
Autism Innovative Medicine Studies-2-Trials project FAQ
August
Attempting to lift the veil of secrecy over AIMS-2
July
Some questions about AIMS-2
June
When do the police find a detainee vulnerable and an appropriate adult is called?
February
Fact-checking
January
Blog posts in 2017
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2017 posts
October
Counter terrorism campaign, a risk for autistics
June
Autism: a guide for police officers and staff
March
Grinker’s neurotypical arithmetic
February
Autistic Hackney residents participate in developing an autism strategy for the borough
Transport for London’s retention of CCTV images
January
GCHQ did not illegally spy on me
Blog posts in 2016
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2016 posts
November
Are surveys fair to autistics?
June
Consultation process for the Met Detention Equality Impact Assessment flawed
April
Fewer detainees held for longer by Met police
A brief intro to autism
January
Blog posts in 2015
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2015 posts
November
Beware, undercover police officers carrying out behavioural detection in this area
August
Open letter to the NAS trustees
July
‘Being Autistic’ – Calm, almost too calm
Autistic behaviour considered suspicious
‘Being Autistic’ – terminology
June
Celebrate neurodiversity
May
Met Police and mental health trust of racist cover-up makes national news
Epic interview of the National Autistic Society’s Chief Executive
April
What did the SLaM NHS Foundation Trust and the police cover up at River House
March
Surveillance in Trafalgar Square and the UK
February
Police marking of autistics
Throwaway society
January
NHS Trust forced to publish unredacted full report about massive police deployment to mental health ward
Privacy campaigners vindicated in fight to delete DNA profiles of innocents
Blog posts in 2014
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2014 posts
November
Policing of autistic suspects
October
Profile on the Restart Project's blog
July
IPCC case file eventually destroyed. Possibly. Probably.
June
Further supplementary evidence to the Home Affairs Committee (Taser use forms)
Supplementary evidence to the Home Affairs Committee (incidents at the River House mental health secure unit)
May
Evidence to the Home Affairs Committee's inquiry into policing and mental health
April
Deployments of armed police officers at London's mental health units
March
More police officers use more Tasers more often
NHS Trust attempted cover-up over massive police deployment to mental health ward
February
Getting smart with a Genius
January
Blog posts in 2013
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2013 posts
October
The sixth DNA database
August
A real public nuisance: political persecution
July
Commencement day of DNA provisions of the Protection of Freedom Act in October
Labelled potential terrorist
May
1,136,000 DNA profiles and 6,341,000 samples gone, but stealth DNA database of everyone being planned
Naked citizen: CCTV and online surveillance
Repair, don't despair! Towards a better relationship with electronics
April
Act of terror – recording stops & searches
February
Complaining about the police and the IPCC
We are outraged
January
Blog posts in 2012
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2012 posts
December
Destruction of DNA samples and other material - five years in the making
Destruction of DNA samples and other material to start - eventually
October
Remembrance march against deaths in custody and its policing
May
Protection of Freedom Act, a step forward for DNA retention
January
Visiting London's police custody suites
No guidelines or training for BTP officers about CCTV recording of strip searches
Blog posts in 2011
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December
Be seeing you
All your DNA are belong to us
November
British Transport Police pervert CCTV policy
Question to the police authority about police provocations at peaceful march and Met's response to the 'Protecting the innocent' review on DNA retention
DNA database: analysis of offending figures
October
Police provocations at peaceful march against deaths in custody
Deaths in custody
July
Another European Court of Human Rights case about retention of innocents' DNA by UK police
June
Cageprisoners interview
The London experience of DNA and the National DNA Database
Police to keep holding on to DNA of innocents until compelled to do otherwise
Missing CCTV footage
May
Retaining DNA of innocents ruled unlawful, again
March
Terrorism stop and search, plus ça change…
Six million DNA profiles, 1 million innocents. Still rising
February
Innocents to become less suspect
January
Supreme Court to revisit DNA retention
Blog posts in 2010
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2010 posts
December
Government owned DNA forensic lab to be closed down
November
Mobiles as reliable surrogate for people tracking
All 'Bout Children and DNA databases
October
Deaths in custody have to stop
Good reason found
September
Police return DNA samples to teenager
Interim situation to continue a bit longer for DNA retention
July
An ethical and evidence-based National DNA database
Death. Police. Rewards.
Adopting the Scottish approach to DNA retention
Halting section 44 stop and search powers
Stopping the renewal of the 28-day pre-charge detention - coming Wednesday
June
Public meeting on the National DNA Database and the use of DNA in policing
May
Confusing capture and retention
Police and kids on stop and search
In 'the times in which we live' humour is criminal
Seven years with the IPCC
Secret evidence never to be used in ordinary civil trials
April
Erasing (another) David
'Surveillance, Politics and Civil Society' - registration details
Politicians and the DNA database
Surveillance, hostile reconnaissance and legal observation
Tories accept Labour's DNA clauses, for now
March
One year on and still no justice for Ian Tomlinson
February
Home Office: five equals four
Leafing through an IPCC case file
Fight 'The Man' and win on Dissident Island Radio
January
Innocent in the UK, unwelcomed in the USA
PACE Review web page stuck in July 2009
If you've got a camera, use it
Home Affairs Committee collecting DNA... stories
GeneWatch UK on the National DNA Database
Close Guantánamo Bay; release all innocents
Sorry Affairs Committee
Home Office still wants your DNA profile, and your PNC record
Home Office gets DNA database funding priorities wrong
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2009 posts
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
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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
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Blog posts in 2008
Recalibrating the balance
Don't delay: Delete your DNA today
The Big Brother awards are back
Jean-Charles de Menezes inquest: majority decides open verdict
The sound of music torture
Consultations, are they worth the time?
Kevin Reynolds' case is found to be exceptional
Retaining DNA records of innocent people is a violation of human rights
Human Rights in the UK - event on 2008-12-10
November
ECHR judgment in S. and Marper v. United Kingdom to be delivered next week
Damian Green's data now owned by the police
MPs realise it's exceptional for innocents to get their DNA removed from the NDNAD and vote not to do anything about it
The Human Genetics Commission's NDNAD and PACE review consultations
Network operators and security theatre
Human Genetics Commission's NDNAD consultation
The DNA database and you - How big is it? How many get off it? Your questions answered...
Calm
October
Deaths in custody & Jean Charles de Menezes inquest
You can't judge a counter terrorism bill by its cover
September
The most expensive country to police in the world
Forgetting. Consequences
August
Counter terrorism videos
Saying, reading and photographing
Is the role of a criminal database to retain profiles of innocents?
July
Jean Charles de Menezes - 1096 days since his shooting by the Police and still no justice
June
Waiting for the actual removal of DNA, fingerprints and PNC records process map
Fighting torture with copyright, redux
Taking a stand against the slow strangulation of fundamental British freedoms by this government
Calls for a new regulatory framework to challenge DNA samples and profile retention
May
Final may not always be final
April
Letter of claim sent
Far along a destructive path
March
Right to protest in front of Parliament to be restored?
DNA retention of unconvicted people
Creating a climate of fear: counter-terrorism and punishment without trial
I'm not a terrorist, please let me travel
It's March, this year let's arrest photographers
February
ECHR hearing of UK DNA case
ACPO police certificates coming out of nowhere required for those going somewhere
January
Last few days for the consultation on Managing Protest around Parliament
What happens to the NDNAD backups?
Police to create process for destruction of DNA samples and removal of DNA profiles
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Blog posts in 2006-2007
Festive season
First woman convicted under the Terrorism Act
English legal system contaminated
National DNA Database breaches Articles 8 and 14 of the ECHR
November
Multics source reveals le jetteur des gazongues
Oppose any extension to the pre-charge detention period - lobby your MP
Stockwell One report eventually published
Record number of Section 44 stop and search by the Met in 2005/6, less than half a percent arrested in connection with terrorism
Health and Safety trial of the Police in the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes
October
It is now clear that the regime was techno-savvy, patient and thorough
Double standards
September
It will never happen to you. Take 234
Refuse to be terrorised
A web of indifferent watching devices
Censorship
The forensic use of bioinformation: ethical issues
Innocents are exceptional
August
Be very alert
Detention without trial
NDNAD - ERROR NOT FOUND
Jean Charles de Menezes, killed but not going away
July
Counter-terrorism: four Ps... and snitches
June
The Law Lords
Cet emplacement est vers le bas pour l'entretien
Copy of Stop and search form 5090 eventually given to me
Slipping in Downing Street
Government Discussion Document Ahead of Proposed Counter Terror Bill 2007
Go see Taking Liberties this week-end and take action
May
MPA and MPS say no to stop and question but like stop and search
Questioning the extension of stop and search to stop and question
Arrest innocent and guilty alike, get their DNA swabs, create their entire genome sequence
State of emergency, derogation from Article 5 of the ECHR and a further extension to the pre-charge detention period considered
NDNAD - one annual report and 162,200 duff records
We do not find that it would be conducive to the public good that the appellant should be deported on the grounds that it would be in the interests of national security so to do
One hundred and fifteen exceptional cases last year
Taking liberties
Forensic use of bioinformation and human rights
I fought the law by Dan Kieran
April
More mass lone demonstrations in one day than in 18 months
Creative use of the Data Protection Act - literally
Fighting torture with copyright and SOCPA with mass lone demos
Turning Britain into a nation of suspects - 3
Spying on its customers is ok... as long as you can lie about it
March
BST - GMT, UT, TAI, GPS, UTC
Fighting torture with copyright - Moral musos work to rule
Authorised demonstration in Parliament Square
Terrorism definition, plus ca change
Creative use of the law as a form of protest
The Met is still registered with the Information Commissioner, and the entry is public... again
Not enough innocents arrested, let's do an ad campaign
Chris Lightfoot 1978-2007
No record found
February
Brent Concil calls on the Police to destroy DNA records of innocents
Stop the use Section 44 stop and search. It does not make us more secure
Id cards - bioinformation open for fishing?
Institutionalised snooping and hostile reconnaissance
I appeal to the IPCC the outcome of the investigation
Joining the dots - Department of potential evidences
Reason of arrest is no reason for questioning - is this reasonable?
January
Interviewed for the Greek TV news programme The Files
Lasso of truth to be used first on sex offenders
Q
There's no such thing as a war on terror in the UK streets... but send in the army just in case
Police sends report and outcome
Where is the Metropolitan Police entry in the data protection public register?
Should the Police keep your DNA forever?
Lock'em up
You're so September 10
Guantanamo must be closed
All your base are belong to US
The Christmas repeal
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2006 posts
December
Blog posts for 2006
A level of unparalleled threat
Findings of Police investigation now with misconduct office
Turning Britain into a nation of suspects - 2
Andy Hayman criticises Stop and Search under Section 44
IPCC confirms findings of Police investigations
Read, hear, see
Use of biometrics by the Home Office
November
At least 1,245 overflights or stopovers by CIA planes in Europe
The end of violence
Post 911 Blues
The DNA good practice manual
Practical handbook for border guards
Air travel
Selection of events in London about civil rights, Nov-Dec 2006
UK Police Terrorism Arrest Statistics (Excluding N. Ireland)
IPCC-supervised investigation completed
Parliamentary debates and the NDNAD
Turning Britain into a nation of suspects
October
Innocent in London - IPCC-supervised investigation close to conclusion
A pawn in their propaganda machine - unfounded claims
Is the UK a police state? - Sentenced after proven innocent
What happened to the Met?
Travelling while having a tan
September
New t-shirt designs
Response from the ICO about my complaint on LGC creating its own DNA mini database
Department of Potential Evidences - Sixty years ago
Traveling while being Hasidic Jew
Is the UK a police state? - Department of potential evidences
"MPA appoints new Deputy Assistant Commissioners to the Metropolitan Police Service"
Is the UK a police state? - A stampede against justice
Are you getting spam from gizmonaut.net?
Racism, liberty and the war on terror
August
A pawn in their propaganda machine - Security theatre
Techie and terrorist behavioural profiles are the same - Travelling while Asian
Fixing blog entries
Unimaginable scale
Is the UK a police state? - Hostile reconnaissance
Innocent in London - ICO explanations
July
Is the UK a police state? - Police accountability
Innocent in London - DNA samples kept by private company
One Year On - Is Justice Possible?
Before and After 7/7: Interrogating British 'Security' Policies
Innocent in London - Meeting the police
Innocent in London - Draft statement, another revision
Is the UK a police state? - The article that may get you arrested
June
Innocent in London - Draft statement
Innocent in London - Complaint recorded
Innocent in London - Need a statement
Innocent in London - Supervised investigation
Techie and terrorist behavioural profiles are the same - update
If you sent me an email this week, please read on...
Innocent in London - Complaint referred
Is the UK a police state? - Another mistake
Is the UK a police state? - 52nd Home Office bill
May
Innocent in London - Notes from MPA meeting
Is the UK a police state? - CCTV surveillance and DNA
MPA full Authority meeting tomorrow
Innocent in London - Question to the MPA
Innocent in London - A more positive entry
Community Safety Focus
Leaving do
April
BBC Programme Catalogue
Is the UK a police state? - Acts of Parliament
Innocent in London - IPCC complaint
New sign pictures - lost elephant
Innocent in London - MPS report
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