CIVIL LIBERTIES + STATE REPRESSION
IMC | 12.10.2001 14:06
The response to the attacks from many governements has been to immediatly propose new draconian legislation that will attack civil liberties. As some politicians and commentators cite the anti-globalisation movement as a terrorist network post Genoa and post September 11, there is already evidence emerging that a clampdown is underway.
This section is under construction. Help us decide what should be in it as it grows. Please send recommendations for links to 
imcuk1@indymedia.org.uk so that we can all continue to expand this section.
14th
Secret Service Force closure of Raga against the Machine website -
http://uk.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=11459
21st
STATEWATCH: EU terror plans may hit protests
http://uk.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=12136
21st
Criminalisation of the Social Movements in the Spanish State.
http://uk.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=12165
Effects on Anti-capitalist
List of concerns of the anti capitalist movement
http://uk.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=11439 -uk
Suggestions of state collusion -
http://nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=9955&group=webcast - nycimc
Invasion of West Bank areas since attacks -
http://www.indymedia.org.il/imc/israel/webcast/display.php3?article_id=6967
15th
Big Brother sinks his teeth in!
http://uk.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=11562
16th
To punish innocent Afghans would be immoral by christian aid
http://uk.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=11613
21st
Big Brother & The WTC Attack
(security concerns in the US)
http://uk.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=12056
Concern over the civil liberties of dissident groups
http://uk.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=11415 - uk
U.S. Civil Liberties Endangered After Sept. 11 Terrorist Strike
Between The Lines' Scott Harris
http://www.uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=13185&group=webcast
More democracy, more security
Liberty Watch - Observer campaign
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9115,560732,00.html
04/10
BBC Online - Civil liberty and ID cards
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1544000/1544619.stm
ACLU on Domestic Surveillance "Trust Us, We're the Government"
The American Civil Liberties Union
Wednesday, October 10, 2001
http://www.aclu.org/safeandfree
Reckless ID card plan will destroy nation's freedom
By Simon Davies - Privacy International
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/29/wfor229.xml
As a Security Measure, ID Card Is a Phony
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/terrorism/opinion/1007edidcard.html
radio story about Internet service providers giving user info to authorities
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/wesun/20011007.wesun.05.ram
Not So Fast, Senator Says, as Terror Bill Gains Ground
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/10/national/10RIGH.html
Oppose Extreme and Unnecessary Expansions of Government Authority!
http://www.aclu.org/action/usa107.html
Ashcroft Centralizing Control Over the Prosecution and Prevention of Terrorism
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/10/national/10INQU.html?pagewanted=print
Bush Wants to Use Terrorism Panel in Criminal Probes
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2001/10/06/MN183971.DTL
Databases and Security vs. Privacy
(argument against national ID cards)
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2001/tc2001108_3550.htm
Technology Helps Put Surveillance in Focus
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000080591oct09.story
A Taste of Big Brother in US
http://commondreams.org/headlines01/1007-01.htm
Terrorism and the Constitution
http://www.cdt.org/policy/terrorism/terrorismbook.html
Dutch Government Wants to Regulate Strong Cryptography
http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/9763/1.html
Stopping the Next One
(whole issue on supposed prevention technologies)
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,17505,FF.html
US to Intensify Effort Against Threat of Computer Terrorism
(this article confuses terrorists' *use* of net with attacks *against* the net)
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000080558oct09.story
White House, Senate Reach Agreement on Anti-Terrorism Bill
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000079336oct04.story
Terror Laws Near Votes in House and Senate
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/05/national/05RIGH.html?pagewanted=print
Ashcroft Pushes Stronger Antiterrorism Bill
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/04/inv.ashcroft.terrorism/
Toward a Balanced Terrorism Bill
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/04/opinion/04THU3.html
Proposed Legislation Significantly Affecting the Computer Profession
http://www.usenix.org/whatsnew/legislation.html
Consortium Responds to More Restrictive Access to Visas by Non-Immigrants
http://www.uciep.org/press1.htm
Report Warns of Rights Abuse Risk
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000079340oct04.story
Viisage Selected to Deploy the First Face-Recognition System in a US Airport
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/011004/42302_1.html
Nixed "Holy War" Web Site Offered PGP Encryption Key
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170828.html
Massive Search Reveals No Secret Code in Web Images
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991340
Twenty Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities
http://66.129.1.101/top20.htm
Securing the Lines of a Wired Nation
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/04/technology/circuits/04SECU.html
Immigrants' Driver's License Bill a Victim of Terrible Timing
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000079422oct04.column
Muslim Leaders Condemn Thatcher Attack
http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,563247,00.html
"in America, history shows, war does not override the calculus of politics"
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/polipro/pp2001-10-03.htm
Bill to Boost Defendants' Rights in Italy Hinders Terrorism War
(Berlusconi and his cronies are changing criminal law to protect themselves)
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000079343oct04.story
Senate Favors Federal Airport Screeners
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000079338oct04.story
Statement on Terrorism, Civil Liberties, and the Internet
http://www.pfir.org/statements/liberties
Don't Blame the Internet
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43828-2001Sep29.html
analysis of the anti-hacking provisions of the proposed anti-terrorism act
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02597.html
British ID Cards Backlash Begins
http://www.guardian.co.uk/humanrights/story/0,7369,561043,00.html
We Must Dismantle Our Democracy in Order to Save It
http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2001/10/01/tomo/
Feds tapping ISPs / Hotmail providing assistance
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46747,00.html
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RELATED LINKS:
Cyber Rights and Cyber Liberties
http://www.cyber-rights.org/
Electronic Privacy Information Center
News / Analysis, plus good privacy tools section
http://www.epic.org/
The Electronic Frontier Foundation
http://www.eff.org
In Defence of Freedom: US Anti-terrorism Act 2001 coalition
http://www.indefenseoffreedom.org
Index On Censorship - Special Section, News / Analysis
http://www.indexonline.org/news/110901/index.shtml
Liberty - National Council for Civil Liberties
ID Cards and Terrorism/Civil Rights Issues
http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk
Magnacartaplus: criticism of UK's anti-terrorism legislation 2000
http://www.magnacartaplus.org/bills/terrorism/index.htm
Privacy International - ID cards
http://www.privacyinternational.org/issues/idcard
Privacy.Org - information, and news on privacy
http://www.privacy.org
Statewatch: monitoring the state and civil liberties in the European Union
http://www.statewatch.org
Proposal to create EU para-military police units to counter protests
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2001/oct/01paramilitary.htm
The "enemy within" - EU plans for the surveillance of protestors and the criminalisation of protests)
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2001/aug/12poreport.htm
imcuk1@indymedia.org.uk so that we can all continue to expand this section. 14th
Secret Service Force closure of Raga against the Machine website -
http://uk.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=11459 21st
STATEWATCH: EU terror plans may hit protests
http://uk.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=12136 21st
Criminalisation of the Social Movements in the Spanish State.
http://uk.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=12165 Effects on Anti-capitalist
List of concerns of the anti capitalist movement
http://uk.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=11439 -uk Suggestions of state collusion -
http://nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=9955&group=webcast - nycimc Invasion of West Bank areas since attacks -
http://www.indymedia.org.il/imc/israel/webcast/display.php3?article_id=6967 15th
Big Brother sinks his teeth in!
http://uk.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=11562 16th
To punish innocent Afghans would be immoral by christian aid
http://uk.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=11613 21st
Big Brother & The WTC Attack
(security concerns in the US)
http://uk.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=12056 Concern over the civil liberties of dissident groups
http://uk.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=11415 - uk U.S. Civil Liberties Endangered After Sept. 11 Terrorist Strike
Between The Lines' Scott Harris
http://www.uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=13185&group=webcast More democracy, more security
Liberty Watch - Observer campaign
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9115,560732,00.html 04/10
BBC Online - Civil liberty and ID cards
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1544000/1544619.stm ACLU on Domestic Surveillance "Trust Us, We're the Government"
The American Civil Liberties Union
Wednesday, October 10, 2001
http://www.aclu.org/safeandfree Reckless ID card plan will destroy nation's freedom
By Simon Davies - Privacy International
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/29/wfor229.xml As a Security Measure, ID Card Is a Phony
http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/terrorism/opinion/1007edidcard.html radio story about Internet service providers giving user info to authorities
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/wesun/20011007.wesun.05.ram Not So Fast, Senator Says, as Terror Bill Gains Ground
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/10/national/10RIGH.html Oppose Extreme and Unnecessary Expansions of Government Authority!
http://www.aclu.org/action/usa107.html Ashcroft Centralizing Control Over the Prosecution and Prevention of Terrorism
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/10/national/10INQU.html?pagewanted=print Bush Wants to Use Terrorism Panel in Criminal Probes
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2001/10/06/MN183971.DTL Databases and Security vs. Privacy
(argument against national ID cards)
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/oct2001/tc2001108_3550.htm Technology Helps Put Surveillance in Focus
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000080591oct09.story A Taste of Big Brother in US
http://commondreams.org/headlines01/1007-01.htm Terrorism and the Constitution
http://www.cdt.org/policy/terrorism/terrorismbook.html Dutch Government Wants to Regulate Strong Cryptography
http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/9763/1.html Stopping the Next One
(whole issue on supposed prevention technologies)
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,17505,FF.html US to Intensify Effort Against Threat of Computer Terrorism
(this article confuses terrorists' *use* of net with attacks *against* the net)
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000080558oct09.story White House, Senate Reach Agreement on Anti-Terrorism Bill
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000079336oct04.story Terror Laws Near Votes in House and Senate
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/05/national/05RIGH.html?pagewanted=print Ashcroft Pushes Stronger Antiterrorism Bill
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/04/inv.ashcroft.terrorism/ Toward a Balanced Terrorism Bill
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/04/opinion/04THU3.html Proposed Legislation Significantly Affecting the Computer Profession
http://www.usenix.org/whatsnew/legislation.html Consortium Responds to More Restrictive Access to Visas by Non-Immigrants
http://www.uciep.org/press1.htm Report Warns of Rights Abuse Risk
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000079340oct04.story Viisage Selected to Deploy the First Face-Recognition System in a US Airport
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/011004/42302_1.html Nixed "Holy War" Web Site Offered PGP Encryption Key
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170828.html Massive Search Reveals No Secret Code in Web Images
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991340 Twenty Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities
http://66.129.1.101/top20.htm Securing the Lines of a Wired Nation
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/04/technology/circuits/04SECU.html Immigrants' Driver's License Bill a Victim of Terrible Timing
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000079422oct04.column Muslim Leaders Condemn Thatcher Attack
http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,563247,00.html "in America, history shows, war does not override the calculus of politics"
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/polipro/pp2001-10-03.htm Bill to Boost Defendants' Rights in Italy Hinders Terrorism War
(Berlusconi and his cronies are changing criminal law to protect themselves)
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000079343oct04.story Senate Favors Federal Airport Screeners
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000079338oct04.story Statement on Terrorism, Civil Liberties, and the Internet
http://www.pfir.org/statements/liberties Don't Blame the Internet
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43828-2001Sep29.html analysis of the anti-hacking provisions of the proposed anti-terrorism act
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02597.html British ID Cards Backlash Begins
http://www.guardian.co.uk/humanrights/story/0,7369,561043,00.html We Must Dismantle Our Democracy in Order to Save It
http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2001/10/01/tomo/ Feds tapping ISPs / Hotmail providing assistance
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46747,00.html ==============
RELATED LINKS:
Cyber Rights and Cyber Liberties
http://www.cyber-rights.org/ Electronic Privacy Information Center
News / Analysis, plus good privacy tools section
http://www.epic.org/ The Electronic Frontier Foundation
http://www.eff.org In Defence of Freedom: US Anti-terrorism Act 2001 coalition
http://www.indefenseoffreedom.org Index On Censorship - Special Section, News / Analysis
http://www.indexonline.org/news/110901/index.shtml Liberty - National Council for Civil Liberties
ID Cards and Terrorism/Civil Rights Issues
http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk Magnacartaplus: criticism of UK's anti-terrorism legislation 2000
http://www.magnacartaplus.org/bills/terrorism/index.htm Privacy International - ID cards
http://www.privacyinternational.org/issues/idcard Privacy.Org - information, and news on privacy
http://www.privacy.org Statewatch: monitoring the state and civil liberties in the European Union
http://www.statewatch.org Proposal to create EU para-military police units to counter protests
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2001/oct/01paramilitary.htm The "enemy within" - EU plans for the surveillance of protestors and the criminalisation of protests)
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2001/aug/12poreport.htm
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