“Research shows that up to 90% of CCTV installations fail to comply with the Information Commissioner’s UK CCTV Code of Practice and many installations are operated illegally. That has profound implications for the reputation of the CCTV and camera surveillance industry and all concerned with it. It‚s clear there is a need for an organisation dedicated to promoting the legal and effective use of CCTV. I’m not surprised there’s confusion. It’s a complex area not just covering appropriate siting and signage issues, but also various pieces of legislation. In particular, the Data Protection Act covers images of people and requires they are held securely if the data is to be used as legal and admissible evidence. Storing images of people is also impacted by the EU Human Rights Act. As things stand today, clever legal counsel could drive a horse and cart through most CCTV evidence and that is not in anybody’s best interests.”
Black Triangle Campaign- Labour will not repeal the bedroom tax shadow DWP Byrne tells GeordiesBy Adrian Pearson 17 May 2013 Labour cannot promise to repeal the bedroom tax, its shadow benefits minister has told a Newcastle audience. Liam Byrne was in Tyneside to set out Labour’s plans to create jobs if it forms the next … Continue reading →
- Labour will not repeal the bedroom tax shadow DWP Byrne tells Geordies
- Boycott Workfare
- Government must reveal workfare exploiters!Some great news: The government has lost its appeal and must reveal the organisations that have used Mandatory Work Activity, Work Experience, and Work Programme placements. That means we’re going to be able to show those organisations what we think of them profiting from free labour! The evidence the government submitted reveals what a huge [...]
- Government must reveal workfare exploiters!
- DPAC
- Call Out for Disabled People who Missed Out on Applying to the Independent Living FundGovernment plans to permanently shut the Independent Living Fund are a concern for all disabled people and to everyone who cares about inclusion and social justice in the UK. The ILF was set up to support disabled people with the highest level of support need to live independently in the community regardless of their level… Continue Reading Call Out for Disa […]
- Call Out for Disabled People who Missed Out on Applying to the Independent Living Fund
- Freedom Press
- REOPENING PARTYWe will be having a grand reopening party for the Freedom Bookshop on Saturday 1st June starting 2pm. There will be nibbles and refreshments as well as highbrow bookish discourse and witty repartee. We extend an especial invite to everyone who has contributed to the cleanup and restoration. (p.s we’re still open upstairs in the [...]
- REOPENING PARTY
- Ian Bone
- ANTI-CAPITALIST ACTION MANCHESTERAnother sound local group…….lets hope they hook up with the Teeside comrades http://www.acamanchester.co.uk
- ANTI-CAPITALIST ACTION MANCHESTER
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- Bins, buses and bossnappings: post-May Day round-upSo, it’s been a while since May Day, and the excitement of having a holiday born out of the class struggle has faded a bit. May Day was born out of the struggle for an eight-hour-day, which was an attempt … Continue reading →
- Bins, buses and bossnappings: post-May Day round-up
- Ipswich Unemployed Action.
- Sanctions Report: Questions Unanswered.An internal inquiry at the Department for Work and Pensions into the covert regime of welfare targets at jobcentres says it has found no evidence of the practice – yet it accepts that action is taken against those jobcentres that do not sanction benefits as much as others. Reports the Guardian today. This follows this (from Watching A4E), In the […]
- Sanctions Report: Questions Unanswered.
- Fitwatch
- Why we need dissenting voices to ruin the state show.Thatcher has been given a state ceremonial funeral. Our ruling class want to show the world how much she was loved and respected. They desperately don’t want any dissenting voices ruining the show. Fitwatch truly hopes that they do not get their wish. Thatcher was a prime architect of repressive policing and institutional racism. If [...]
- Why we need dissenting voices to ruin the state show.
Ridiculous! I feel safe knowing that they’re there…
Why are you so worried anyway? What’ve you got to hide?
Is this guy having you on? It’s hard to imagine that a nation which used to be identified with individualism [Poll Tax riots] would just roll over and play dead. What the hell is happening over there? I was borne in Colchester and most of my people are still in the West country, but I just don’t understand the England of today. The basic answer to people like Stopard (IF he is being serious)is, of course, pretty standard. We are not in this world to justify ourselves to the State. I don’t want to be “protected”, “understood” or micromanaged by government. When politicians get on the “law and order” bandwagon things get worse not better to say the least.
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