Sentences with phrase «of civil liberties campaigners»

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.

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

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.

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.

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.»

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.