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01 December 1997

Agenda No. 20 (Spring) 1997 pp8. This issue of Liberty's journal has articles on the Police Bill and "the disturbing proposals contained in several other Bills currently going through Parliament" Bloody Sunday and a "new telephone advice line service". Available from Liberty 21 Tabard Street London SE1 4LA.

Eighteen years of feathering their nests. Labour Research Vol. 86 No. 5 (May) 1997. When John Major launched the Conservative election campaign he said their aim was to "turn the have-nots into haves"; this special edition of Labour Research contains a series of articles on sleeze and greed under the Tories over the past 18 years.

Too close circuit for comfort Gibby Zobel & Simon Griffiths, Squall No. 15 (Summer) 1997 pp34-35. Useful article on new surveillance technologies which "are the foundation stones of a surveillance society which will lock us in for all time."

Someone to watch over you: the threat to privacy in the digital age. Daily Telegraph Connected 29.4.97. This is a supplement to the Daily Telegraph that expresses concern over new technologies and the invasion of privacy: includes articles on security scanners police use of telephone bill information CCTV optical cards and a NHS national medical information network.

Citizens but not data subjects Caroline Daniels. New Statesman, 13.6.97 pp23-25. Looks at privacy and CCTV (closed circuit videos) and data-matching for social security fraud (which is not covered by any code of data protection conduct).