Sentences with phrase «civil liberties activists»

Civil liberties activists detest them.

The issue of pre-charge detention became a symbolic battle between civil liberties activists and the Home Office under Labour, with many observers noting that the government had effectively scrapped habeas corpus, considered by many constitutional historians to be the foundation of a free society.

However, civil liberties activists have argued that «reasonable suspicion» is extremely subjective.

Civil liberties activists were carefully scrutinising details of the protection of freedom bill today, after the government finally published details of how it would restore British freedoms.

But civil liberties activists question why it took a court decision to force the government to remove innocent people's DNA in the first place, saying the home office was engaged in creating a universal database by stealth.

Theresa May's draft Investigatory Powers Bill sent a jolt down the spines of civil liberties activists everywhere and made even Edward Snowden gasp in a widely shared tweet where he called the Snooper's Charter «the most intrusive and least accountable surveillance regime in the West».

child porn, to use a popular boogeyman of censors and civil liberties activists complaining about censors alike), and then expand the apparatus over time until eventually it gets into the hands of some enterprising young hotshots that promptly decide they can make a few billion dollars through the cryptoeconomic equivalent of LIBOR manipulation.

The photographs from Mapplethorpe's show were projected onto the exterior of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, while gay rights activities, civil liberty activist and artists picketed outside the Corcoran.

The move has also received a cautious welcome from the likes of Big Brother Watch and veteran Conservative rebel and civil liberties activist David Davis — with the conditions that its use has proper oversight and isn't a bridge towards the reintroduction of the Snooper's Charter, which May clearly wants.

Not exact matches

Farron has said the three issues he wants to own are housing, civil liberties and climate change — touchstone issues for Lib Dem activists, but there's an open question about how far they will resonate with the wider public, especially an ageing electorate, with over-55s expected to comprise a majority of voters by 2020.

Initial reports that the Government wants to change how private communications data can be stored and accessed have rightly caused great concern, not least amongst Liberal Democrat activists and Parliamentarians who all seek to safeguard civil liberties from erosion...

Initial reports that the Government wants to change how private communications data can be stored and accessed have rightly caused great concern, not least amongst Liberal Democrat activists and Parliamentarians who all seek to safeguard civil liberties from erosion by state surveillance.

Yet Clegg and his team feel they get scant credit from activists for constantly battling to thwart Tory efforts to sneak through illiberal measures on civil liberties and immigration, within a coalition in which they're out - numbered five to one.

She has also faced criticism from some activists after she refused to support extension of public housing opportunities to all people living with HIV, as opposed to only those with an AIDS diagnosis; from civil liberties advocates for supporting a requirement than any outdoor demonstration of at least 50 people obtain a police permit; and from Lower Manhattan residents angry that more was not done to save St. Vincent's Hospital.

Subsequent protests labeled the «Blackout 505 Movement» led by Anwar Ibrahim drew hundreds of thousands of disgruntled voters to the streets, however the Malaysian government responded by persecuting and jailing numerous opposition activists, underscoring the tenuous state of political rights and civil liberties in the country.

As an organization devoted to civil liberties and human rights, the CCLA endorses the Women's March and stands in solidarity with women's rights activists in the United States and around the world to send a loud and clear message: Human rights must be respected, discrimination will not be tolerated.

It's a law that activists, civil liberties advocates and concerned citizen types plead about endlessly and earnestly — and to whose pleas the yawns of mass apathy mostly echo back.