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News in Brief (1.10.14)

01 October 2014

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• USA: FISA: Debate Brews Over Disclosing Warrantless Spying (New York Times, link)

• Europe can stop deaths and suffering and regain control of its borders, says UN human rights expert (Africanews.it, link) Read Open Letter (link)

• New Intel Doc: Do Not Be ‘Led Astray’ By ‘Commonly Understood Definitions’ (The Intercept, link)

• Anniversary of the 20 years The VOICE Refugee Forum (link)

• UK: Londoners give up eldest children in public Wi-Fi security horror show - F-Secure’s ‘Herod clause’ experiment aims to show the dangers of insecure public hotspot connections (Guardian, link)

• INTERPOL removes alert against activist Bahar Kimyongür after Fair Trials intervention (Fair Trials International, link)

• EU: New EU digi-commish struggles with concepts of net neutrality - Oettinger all about the infrastructure – but not big on substance (The Register, link)

• EU: Hard facts on Europe's biggest lobbyists revealed for the first time (LobbyFacts.eu)

• UK: Conference 2014: courage and campaigning for migration justice (link) and: Annual Report (link)

• Syrian refugees will be free to choose final destination (Cyprus Mail, link)

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