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EU ‘civilian’ mission training paramilitaries in Libya
"The EU's "civilian" border mission in Libya is in fact training paramilitary forces, amid a wider European and US effort to stop Libya becoming a "failed state." According to an internal EU paper - a Read More
EP: DATA SURVEILLANCE INQUIRY: 18 November 2013: Strasbourg
See: The extent of national competence as regards internal security (pdf) by Professor Steve Peers And: Poland: Adam Bodnar (pdf) Read More
UK: DATA SURVEILLANCE: Threat from NSA leaks may have been overstated by UK, says Lord Falconer
"Britain's intelligence chiefs may have exaggerated the threat posed to national security by the leaking of the NSA files, according to a former lord chancellor who has questioned whether the legal oversight of MI6, MI5 Read More
USA: Government Accountability Office (GAO)
"Available evidence does not support whether behavioral indicators, which are used in the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques (SPOT) program, can be used to identify persons who may pose a Read More
EU: GREECE-TURKEY: Joint press release: Greece – Turkey: ‘The route is dangerous, people are dying’ The tragic limits of European migration policies
"Tighter controls at the border between Greece and Turkey are forcing many people fleeing conflict to use increasingly dangerous routes. Migrants who manage to reach the EU border have been victims of push-backs and those Read More
UK: UNDERCOVER POLICING
See: Mark Kennedy, ex-undercover officer, sought help from STRATFOR (Wikileaks, link) and see: Stratfor (link), plus: Wikipedia on Stratfor (link) Read More
EU-USA: DATA PROTECTION: Joint Press Statement following the EU-US-Justice and Home Affairs Ministerial Meeting of 18 November 2013 in Washington
This states that the two sides aim to agree a comprehensive "umbrella" agreement on data protection in the field of law enforcement by the summer of 2014. However, there is, as yet, no commitment from Read More