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Government consults over ending 28 days pre-charge detention and control orders

25 June 2010 , ,
Following on from the welcome news of the review into ending Labour’s policy of detaining children for immigration purposes, yesterday a wide-ranging review into anti-terrorism measures was announced. (It’s a review that I of course have rather an interest in.) Liberty’s take on the review is: Help us end 28 day detention Pre-charge detention refers [...]

More than 30 million pieces of private data go missing

1 August 2009 ,
Liberty has a new fun little film about why the Government’s plans for a national identity database are a bad idea: