Articles by Nick Hopkins
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‘Innocent People’ on UK Police Photos Database
Nick Hopkins & Jake Morris - BBC,
16 Feb 2015
3 Feb 2015 – Police forces in England and Wales have uploaded up to 18 million “mugshots” to a facial recognition database – despite a court ruling it could be unlawful. They include photos of people never charged, or others cleared of an offence, and were uploaded without Home Office approval.
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Nick Hopkins and Matthew Taylor – The Guardian,
9 Dec 2013
The UN’s senior counter-terrorism official is to launch an investigation into the surveillance powers of American and British intelligence agencies following Edward Snowden’s revelations that they are using secret programmes to store and analyse billions of emails, phone calls and text messages.
→ read full articlePrivate Firms Selling Mass Surveillance Systems around World, Documents Show
Nick Hopkins and Matthew Taylor – The Guardian,
25 Nov 2013
One Dubai-based firm offers DIY system similar to GCHQ’s Tempora programme, which taps fibre-optic cables. Private firms are selling spying tools and mass surveillance technologies to developing countries with promises that “off the shelf” equipment will allow them to snoop on millions of emails, text messages and phone calls, according to a cache of documents published on Monday [18 Nov 2013].
→ read full articleCompanies Ejected From London Arms Fair for ‘Promoting Cluster Bombs’
Nick Hopkins – The Guardian,
19 Sep 2011
Violation of Oslo accord discovered by MP who calls for action to investigate ‘what other breaches are occurring’ at the fair. The action was taken after Caroline Lucas, the Green party leader, discovered that Pakistani arms manufacturers were actively promoting “banned cluster bombs” at their pavilions. Details of the munitions were in brochures readily available to potential customers. The episode is an embarrassment to the fair, which has had 1,300 firms from more than 40 countries seeking orders for weapons.
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