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01 May 2002

Überwachung neuer Kommunikationstechnologien [State Surveillance of New Technologies of Communication]. Bürgerrechte & Polizei, Cilip 71 (1/2002), pp 112.

The articles address electronic surveillance of the internet and the fight against cryptography; the legal powers of German authorities to intercept telecommunications; mobile phone interception and issues arising, such as the collection of traffic data or the spatial localisation of the mobile phone user; the harmonisation of surveillance technologies at EU-US level ("International Requirements for Interception", renamed "International User Requirements" in 1994), which have been developed in International Law Enforcement Telecom Seminars since 1993; data protection violations through the collection of traffic data at EU level; the Cybercrime Convention and post-11 September anti-terrorist measures, amongst others. Available from: Verlag Cilip, c/o FU Berlin, Malteserstr. 74-100, 12249 Berlin, Tel: 0049-30-838-70462, Fax: 0049-30-775-1073, info@cilip.de, www.cilip.de. Annual subscription (3 issues): 18.41 Euro.

I'm dead on the inside, Simon Hattenstone. Guardian G2 p6.

Interview with Paddy Hill, one of the Birmingham 6 who was wrongly convicted and jailed for life in August 1975 for participating in an IRA bombing campaign that killed 21 people. Hill was released in 1991, but has yet to receive an apology or compensation having turned down two "derisory" offers. In this painful interview he recounts the consequences of his imprisonment on himself and his family. Hill also discusses Mojo, the organisation he set up to fight miscarriages of justice.