Sentences with phrase «liberties campaigners»

Civil liberties campaigners have spoken out against laws that could see young people added to the sex offender register for taking explicit pictures of themselves.

English Pen, Big Brother Watch and other civil liberties campaigners brought the action following revelations about GCHQ's collection of internet data from millions of people not under any suspicion.

DESPITE strong opposition from American civil liberties campaigners and even religious groups, the FBI can now eavesdrop on phone calls made on digital telephone systems.

Civil liberties campaigners could contest proposals which would see the police handed the discretion to remove videos from internet sites, even with judicial approval.

The comments quickly took the fire out of civil liberties campaigners, and just in time to nip a potential Liberal Democrat rebellion in the bud.

The complacency of civil liberties campaigners means the only pressure the government gets is from the securocrats and tabloids.

Civil liberties campaigners have reacted with outrage at the government's plans, contained in the Queen's Speech, to give law enforcers wider scope to monitor details about private phone calls.

The UK may block an extradition on the basis of procedural grounds but not for any other reason, raising concerns from civil liberties campaigners.

Limited rebellions saw the coalition's majority reduced to 32 and 40, ending frantic efforts by civil liberties campaigners to persuade backbenchers to challenge the government.

Even Labour, the party with the least understanding of the appropriate limits to state power, is run by a leader who made a special pledge to civil liberties campaigners - even if his shadow home secretary is clearly an unreconstructed authoritarian.

The difference between now and the New Labour years is that civil liberties campaigners are not on the back foot.

Tonight's vote over 42 - day detention is going to be «very, very close» with the full pressure of the government machine being brought to bear, civil liberties campaigners are saying.

Civil liberties campaigners have said the scans represent an invasion of privacy and their introduction may yet be challenged by the Human Rights Commission.

Anti-Corbyn MPs criticise peerage just weeks after the civil liberties campaigner presides over a «whitewash» into Labour anti-Semitism.

But the move enraged privacy and civil liberty campaigners, who were promised that the government would act to roll back the «database state» when it entered Downing Street.

The government is following the wording of the ruling, but has insisted on innocent people's DNA being kept for six years - angering civil liberty campaigners.

Tory MP and civil liberty campaigner David Davis told BBC Radio 5 Live: «Secret agencies naturally do not want to come out in a public area, they don't want to people to know what they are doing.

The measure, criticised by civil liberty campaigners as a «snooper's charter», has been taken out of a more general Home Office and Ministry of Justice - sponsored crime and courts bill, which ministers need to get on to the statute book as fast as possible.

«You can imagine how much data that is going to give MindGeek, if they're going to have stats on what people click on, what porn sites people click on, what they pay for,» Pandora Blake, a sexual liberties campaigner and pornographic website owner, told an Open Rights Group meeting in London last month.

Not exact matches

BHA Faith Schools Campaigner Richy Thompson commented, «These changes represent a significant victory in ensuring Academies and Free Schools have to respect the shared citizenship that all British people enjoy, which includes liberty, equality, tolerance for other views, and respect for the rule of English law.

Wes Streeting wrote today: «She may be one of the country's leading campaigners for civil liberties, but we shouldn't pretend that everything about the timing and nature of this appointment doesn't stink.»

Watson is perhaps best known as a dogged campaigner on issues related to civil liberties and privacy.

The move will be a massive relief to civil liberties groups and privacy campaigners, who had long opposed plans to hand details of users» internet use to intelligence agencies and police.