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UK: Every phone call, email and internet click stored by 'state spying' databases

Every phone call, text message, email and website visit will be stored for a year for monitoring by the state.

http://snipurl.com/t6vxo



Justice Dept. Asked For News Site's Visitor Lists

In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/09/taking_liberties/entry5595506.shtml



American Sues F.B.I., Saying He Was Detained in Africa

A New Jersey man who contends that he was detained and mistreated in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia in 2007 with the approval of the United States filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against F.B.I. agents and other unidentified American officials who he says interrogated him and threatened him with execution.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/us/11aclu.html



UK: Judges attack UK secrecy over public documents

Senior judges say the foreign secretary is stopping them releasing details of CIA interrogation techniques - even though the US has published them.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8368841.stm


From Information Clearing House



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