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UK: It’s Time to Close Down the Police’s “Domestic Extremism” Databases

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Surveillance Databases Law Policing
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UK European Convention on Human Rights

05 February 2019

"A European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgment in January, in a case brought by veteran peace campaigner John Catt, is extremely significant for the future of protest surveillance."

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See: UK: It’s Time to Close Down the Police’s “Domestic Extremism” Databases (Netpol, link):

"For seven years John has argued that the decision by the police to retain extensive surveillance data about him on the secretive National Domestic Extremism Database was a violation of his privacy."

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