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Vol 10(6): November-December 2000

Topic
Data protection Law Policing Prisons Privacy Secrecy and transparency Surveillance Immigration Racism and fascism Asylum Databases Deportation
Country/Region
France G8 Czech Republic Austria Netherlands Denmark Council of Europe Switzerland Germany Italy UK EU

31 December 2000

Cover story: UK/EU/G8: The "Agencies" demand: - every phone call - every mobile phone-call - every fax - every e-mail - every website - every web page visited/downloaded - from anywhere - by everyone - is recorded, archived and is accessible for all least seven years: in "a safe and free society" everyone is a "suspect"

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UK/EU/G8: "in a safe and free society" everyone is a "suspect"

France: Medical records seized at drug treatment centre

Switzerland: Big Brother Awards

Germany: Asylum seeker threatened with deportation without court hearing

Austria: Pilots responsible for deportation deaths?

Italy: Judge questions constitutionality of immigration law

Netherlands: CCTV getting more and more "popular"

UK: "Shocking" CPS decision allows officers to escape charges

Germany: Token sentences in migrant death case

UK: Far right-loyalist links strengthened

UK: "Shut YOIs" call as racist killer is jailed for life

UK: Raid on Blantyre House "unjustified"

EU: JHA Council, 30.11.00-1.12.00

Czech Republic/Denmark: Jailed Danish youth bailed

Features

UK: Hillsborough Trial: A case to answer

EU: Where now for accountability in the EU? Access to Europol annual report denied and Schengen annual reports discontinued

EU: Too much information creates confusion: The European Parliament report on access to documents, the Council’s draft common position and Germany takes the lead in opposing openness

Essay by Aidan White, General Secretary of the European Federation of Journalists

CoE "cybercrime" convention: legitimising internet surveillance

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