Warning on spread of state surveillance
Governments are building a “global registration and surveillance infrastructure” in the US-led “war on terror”, civil liberty groups warned yesterday. The aim is to monitor the movements and activities of entire populations in what campaigners call “an unprecedented project of social control”. The warning came from the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group, including the American Civil Liberties Union, and Statewatch, a UK-based bulletin which tracks developments in the EU.Full Story