2010 posts

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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 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

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2008 posts

• December
  • 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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2007 posts

• December
  • 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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