The country’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has promised a break from the politics of the last 40 years—realizing more broadly that Labour must stand up for the 99% against big business, or the party will become irrelevant.
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Exclusive: Danish Magazine's Surveillance Scandal Creates New Uproar Over Data Privacy
A Danish weekly has been exposed for bribing one of its IT people to access personal communication and monitor credit and debit card transactions of politicians and celebrities.
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Democracy On Trial: From Boston to London, Surveillance Is Now the Status Quo
Have people become accustomed to the idea that a spy center established to monitor and catch terrorists is keeping records of the perfectly legal political activities of a wide variety of organizers and groups?
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No Warrant, No Problem: How the Government Can Get Your Digital Data
The government isn't allowed to wiretap American citizens without a warrant from a judge.
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Libya In Shock After Leading Human Rights Lawyer, Activist, Feminist Assassinated
Salwa Bugaighis was stabbed and shot through the head by gunmen who broke into her house in Benghazi after she returned from voting in last Wednesday's election.
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Supreme Court Endorses Cellphone Privacy Rights In Landmark Ruling
All nine justices joined the Wednesday ruling in asserting that police must obtain a warrant to search the contents of cellphones seized from people they have arrested.
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U.S. Police Departments are Increasingly Militarized
An ACLU report cites soaring use of war zone equipment and tactics in American cities.
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Recent Crimes of the FBI: Who Is Watching the Watchers?
Is the FBI the kind of government institution we want to keep funding with our taxes – and are its actions acceptable to a public that's been made to look and feel ever more like the enemy, rather than the protected?
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Repressing World Cup Protests Is Booming Business for Brazilian Corporation
Rio-based company Condor Nonlethal Technologies is swimming in profit after a $22-million contract providing tear gas, rubber bullets, Tasers, and light and sound grenades to police and private security forces.
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At 1600% Growth, Private Prisons Are Getting Rich Jailing Illegal Immigrants
You might be shocked to learn how big of a business this has become.
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Why Is U.S. Military Pushing K-12 Students to Build Drones In Dayton?
Using vast resources to develop a shadow education system throughout the U.S., the military is going after young children to recruit a weapons-friendly generation of scientists and engineers.
