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Tag Archives: security
Mar 31 2013
Book Review: Trading Secrets: Spies and Intelligence in an Age of Terror
Leave a commentTweet In Trading Secrets, former Financial Times security correspondent Mark Huband aims to provide a unique and controversial assessment of the ability of the major intelligence agencies to combat the threat of twenty-first century terrorism. With access to intelligence officers from Rome to Kabul … Continue reading
Posted by: March 31, 2013
Tagged with: anti-terrorism, intelligence, security, terrorism
Feb 18 2013
Liberty and Security: we must recover the finest meanings of these terms
Leave a commentTweet Conor Gearty will be delivering a public lecture at the LSE tomorrow to promote his new book; Liberty and Security. In this post he explores the main tenets of the book and argues that we should recover the universal dimensions of … Continue reading
Posted by: February 18, 2013
Tagged with: conor gearty, liberty, polity press, security
May 8 2012
The government’s proposal for data communications surveillance will be invasive and costly with minimal effectiveness
4 CommentsTweet The government has proposed providing law enforcement officials with unprecedented access to internet communications. Joss Wright argues that this amounts to a hugely expensive and invasive scheme that will have only minimal effectiveness in achieving its stated goals. The means through which … Continue reading
Posted by: May 8, 2012
Tagged with: liberty, privacy, security, surveillance
Oct 18 2011
Senior politicians are beginning to see the importance of cyberspace governance, but current international treaties need updating.
Leave a commentTweet Ahead of the UK Cyberspace Conference in London on 1-2 November, Peter Sommer welcomes the British Foreign Secretary’s interest in cyber space and cyber security policies, but fears that current international cyberspace treaties that are too vague and generalised … Continue reading
