2009 was a bad year for liberty in Great Britain.
Consider:
2009: A bad year for civil liberties
28 December, 2009 • The 20,000 snooper army: Vast number of town hall bureaucrats get power to enter your home without a warrant
28 December, 2009 • Conwy near top of “Big Brother barge-in league”
23 December, 2009 • Police officers claim we're not a Big Brother state
22 December, 2009 • The real cost – and value – of CCTV
21 December, 2009 • Is Britain becoming the censorship capital of the world?
21 December, 2009 • ‘MUSIC BAN WILL HIT BRITISH WAY OF LIFE’
21 December, 2009 • The Equality Bill could Outlaw Evangelical Christianity In The U.K.
21 December, 2009 • The growing threat to free speech
21 December, 2009 • Equality legislation means our very right to believe is under fire
20 December, 2009 • The horror of virtual courts is upon us
18 December, 2009 • Local councils ‘have trebled number of CCTV cameras in a decade
16 December, 2009 • Town hall 'enforcers' with police powers increase by a fifth in a year
15 December, 2009 • Army of private snoopers growing
16 December, 2009 • Fishermen to get bigger quotas if they carry CCTV
12 December, 2009 • Why not just scrap ID cards, then?
9 December, 2009 • The great 'big state' debate
8 December, 2009 • The police are right not to remain silent on civil liberties
5 December, 2009 • Swiss MP fears for Britain
5 December, 2009 • Buy your children toy weapons for Christmas and you could face an armed raid, police warn parents
5 December, 2009 • Equality snoopers to keep files on your sexuality
3 December, 2009 • BOY TAKEN INTO CARE FOR BEING 2 POUNDS TOO LIGHT
30 November, 2009 • £500 to spy on your neighbour
30 November, 2009 • Home-schooling parents may face criminal record checks
27 November, 2009 • Thousands of children jailed – before being found guilty
27 November, 2009 • PREGNANT MUM TO FLEE UK
26 November, 2009 • New U.K. Bill Requires Homeschooled Children be Registered with Authorities
26 November, 2009 • DNA database has eroded liberty
25 November, 2009 • More than 1 in 10 people now have their DNA on West Midlands Police's database
24 November, 2009 • UK national identity register is 'up and running'
24 November, 2009 • Police are arresting innocents to meet DNA database targets
19 November, 2009 • CCTV IN HOMES TO SPY ON NEIGHBOURS
18 November, 2009 • Blindly fingerprinting children
18 November, 2009 • The Nanny State even inspects our wallpaper
18 November, 2009 • Big Brother quiz for new school parents: Officials launch 83-point probe into families' lives
16 November, 2009 • 'Big Brother' ID cards cost taxpayers £230,000 each days'
16 November, 2009 • NOW HEALTH AND SAFETY SNOOPERS VISIT YOUR HOME
12 November, 2009 • Councils deploy snooping powers 200 times a week
11 November, 2009 • Leave Child-Rearing to Parents, Not the State
11 November, 2009 • DNA profile database plans unveiled
10 November, 2009 • Home Office aspires to read your emails
10 November, 2009 • Police report pregnant woman to social services over half-decorated home
9 November, 2009 • Chipping away at free speech
9 November, 2009 • Army of 'citizen snoopers' recruited by council to spy on neighbours
9 November, 2009 • Mother trailed by policeman and warned by council for telling off son at checkout
7 November, 2009 • ContactPoint database of 11million children’s details to go ahead despite security fears
6 November, 2009 • Who has authority over our children?
5 November, 2009 • Disguising the detention of children
5 November, 2009 • Spy victim mother takes snooping council to court
5 November, 2009 • Curb on Big Brother 'Doesn't Go Far Enough'
4 November, 2009 • Out of Afghanistan, into a police state
4 November, 2009 • Alan Johnson announces plans to curb excessive council surveillance
2 November, 2009 • When in Europe Watch What You Say
28 October, 2009 • Policing of Opinion Has No Place In Our Country
28 October, 2009 • Britain passes Big Brother landmark: More than one in 10 people now on DNA database
28 October, 2009 • Councils get ‘Al Capone’ power to seize assets over minor offences
27 October, 2009 • ID card plan 'needs 28m people to sign up to cover costs'
27 October, 2009 • Brussels 'Home Office' plot to snoop on all of Europe
26 October, 2009 • 'Bedroom snooping' by 2011 census
26 October, 2009 • Innocent protesters' details collected for police databases
26 October, 2009 • Police compiling database of 'domestic extremist' protesters
25 October, 2009 • Secret court seizes £3.2bn from elderly
25 October, 2009 • Brussels is 'Plotting a Spy State"
24 October, 2009 • Want to help the neighbours with the rubbish? It's illegal
22 October, 2009 • Teacher 'bullied' by council for leaving bag of waste paper next to full recycling bin
22 October, 2009 • Social workers remove new-born baby from obese mother
21 October, 2009 • Spying on Communities Contravenes Cherished British Freedom
21 October, 2009 • DNA database now holds profiles of 5.6m Britons (but crimes solved using it falls by a fifth)
22 October, 2009 • Armed police to permanently patrol Britain's streets
21 October, 2009 • Liberty warns of new secret inquests threat
21 October, 2009 • Big Brother Britain: £380 a MINUTE spent on tracking your every click online
21 October, 2009 • Hundreds of council workers duped into answering Health and Safety questions on eating biscuits
19 October, 2009 • Trafigura: 'Never again should a newspaper be barred from reporting Parliament'
15 October, 2009 • MEPs call for compulsory 'EU lessons' in schools
15 October, 2009 • Terror Act used on climate activist
13 October, 2009 • A David for this surveillance Goliath?
12 October, 2009 • Equality database sought by government
12 October, 2009 • £1,000 fine for putting any food scraps in the dustbin
9 October, 2009 • Council Snoops Have Power to Issue £300 Fines
8 October, 2009 • Big Brother culture attacked by country's top barrister
7 October, 2009 • Authoritarian? China’s not a patch on Britain
7 October, 2009 • Amateur photographer is quizzed by police (for taking snap of the sunset)
3 October, 2009 • English children abroad to be included on government database
1 October, 2009 • Couple fail to win return of obese children
1 October, 2009 • The United States of Europe Will Come
29 September, 2009 • Europe spies on your pay and savings
28 September, 2009 • Council hires hoodie spies to rummage through bins and see what is being thrown away
25 September, 2009 • Police threaten to 'put mother in the cells'... for pulling up dead plant from flowerbed
20 September, 2009 • Brown misleads Conference on ID cards
20 September, 2009 • Restaurant use CCTV cameras
15 September, 2009 • Presumed guilty
15 September, 2009 • Police must 'be ordered' to ditch DNA
15 September, 2009 • Holyrood security officials accused of illegally snooping on neighbours
15 September, 2009 • Another invasion of liberty. And only the Tories are alert
16 September, 2009 • Conservatives would cut back ‘Big Brother’ state
13 September, 2009 • Government issues 'snooper handbook' to staff
13 September, 2009 • We need to repeal 12 years of vile laws attacking our liberty
13 September, 2009 • Security guards ban boy, 9, from sailing toy boat on pond because it 'frightens the fish'
12 September, 2009 • Eurocrats to Control Britain's Borders
9 September, 2009 • Police given assault warning over DNA samples taken from children
8 September, 2009 • Does your council persecute households?
7 September, 2009 • MoD spends £426,000 spying on injured soldiers
5 September, 2009 • Town halls are spying on us at tips and in car parks
4 September, 2009 • ID cards: A new layer of compulsion
2 September, 2009 • £500 fine if you put out wheelie bin on the wrong day
25 August, 2009 • CCTV: the worst of all possible worlds
20 August, 2009 • ASBO for buskers who only knew two songs
17 August, 2009 • Millions Wasted on Nonsense 'Nanny-State' Jobs
15 August, 2009 • Police stop and search children as young as two
12 August, 2009 • 300 children a day added to DNA database
11 August, 2009 • Big Brother Britain has more CCTV cameras than China
10 August, 2009 • 1,500 snoop requests made every day
7 August, 2009 • Police told to ignore human rights ruling over DNA database
5 August, 2009 • Government Announces 24-Hour CCTV Surveillance for Bad Parents
4 August, 2009 • CCTV cameras installed in classrooms
4 August, 2009 • EU "Equality" Directive an "Instrument of Oppression" against Religious Believers
3 August, 2009 • ContactPoint database could put 11 million children at risk
1 August, 2009 • Health and safety row over man who died in 18in of water as 999 teams were told it was too risky to rescue him
30 July, 2009 • Drippy health and safety police ban swimmers from doing lengths
30 July, 2009 • Johnson due to unveil new ID card
27 July, 2009 • Get £500 to spy on neighbours
21 July, 2009 • Police given powers to enter homes and tear down anti-Olympics posters during Games
21 July, 2009 • Councils still breaking surveillance laws
18 July, 2009 • Child database: danger of malicious reporting
16 July, 2009 • Police force calls time on stop and search - after using power 3,400 times but failing to make single terror arrest
14 July, 2009 • DNA database expanding by 40,000 profiles a month
10 July, 2009 • On-the-spot fines replace court hearings
6 July, 2009 • £1,000 fines to bolster ID cards as Tories pledge to scrap scheme
1 July, 2009 • ID scheme is an 'embarrassment'
29 June, 2009 • Police 'got it wrong' at G20 summit
25 June, 2009 • Government forced to again deny ID cards U-turn
23 June, 2009 • ‘Police robbed me of my dignity with strip search’
22 June, 2009 • EU security plans threaten freedom, says rights expert
22 June, 2009 • Police criminal records database may be slashed
20 June, 2009 • Twins removed after mother jokes with social workers
17 June, 2009 • Stop and search made for 'racial balance'
16 June, 2009 • Tories 'will end Big Brother state'
16 June, 2009 • Former Law Lord calls ID cards an 'invasion' of civil liberties
12 June, 2009 • Town halls hire citizen snoopers as young as SEVEN to spy on neighbours
12 June, 2009 • Man who dropped a ten pound note is fined £50...for littering
12 June, 2009 • Anti-discrimination laws persecute everyone, including atheists
11 June, 2009 • Big Brother database on adults working with children may ruin innocent lives, warns watchdog
10 June, 2009 • Met police: six officers accused of torturing drug suspects
10 June, 2009 • Has New Mobile Directory Got Your Number?
8 June, 2009 • Fighting Nineteen Eighty-Four
8 June, 2009 • How equality legislation threatens liberty
4 June, 2009 • Police target 'innocent' youths for arrest in bid to increase DNA samples on database
4 June, 2009 • Nanny State Spells End of Pick Your Own Fruit
3 June, 2009 • Ministers warned over DNA plans
28 May, 2009 • The surveillance society is an EU-wide issue
27 May, 2009 • Police chiefs want DNA from minor offenders to be kept on database
27 May, 2009 • MI5 faces fresh torture claims
26 May, 2009 • State recruits an army of snoopers with police-style powers
25 May, 2009 • State 'spying on Heathrow critics'
23 May, 2009 • Over-regulated Britain
22 May, 2009 • Children revolt against classroom CCTV
21 May, 2009 • Surveillance of protesters ruled illegal
19 May, 2009 • CCTV doesn't cut crime
18 May, 2009 • Town halls hire citizen snoopers as young as SEVEN to spy on neighbours and report wrongs
18 May, 2009 • Government child database goes live
16 May, 2009 • Headteachers to get more power to 'snoop'
14 May, 2009 • Health officials brand little boy overweight for being just a pound above NHS guidelines
13 May, 2009 • Calls to disband the Met squad in G20 riots
10 May, 2009 • G20 police 'used undercover men to incite crowds'
7 May, 2009 • Why no respect for the presumption of innocence?
7 May, 2009 • Free Speech in Europe
7 May, 2009 • ID cards: A weapon to beat terrorism or a threat to civil liberties?
7 May, 2009 • Ministers keep innocent on DNA database
28 April, 2009 • David Blunkett: 'ID cards should be scrapped'
28 April, 2009 • More than 180,000 on police DNA database
28 April, 2009 • Phone bills 'will rise' to pay for database
27 April, 2009 • Government climb down over the database
26 April, 2009 • Police could get water cannons
25 April, 2009 • Police can snoop on every email and eavesdrop on Internet phone calls under new plan
24 April, 2009 • Paying billions for our database state
24 April, 2009 • Police caught on tape trying to recruit Plane Stupid protester as spy
23 April, 2009 • A historic attack on liberty
22 April, 2009 • Civil servants want to read your emails
21 April, 2009 • Russian journalist blasts 'Big Brother Britain' and compares it to life in the old Soviet Union
21 April, 2009 • Thought police muscle up in Britain
20 April, 2009 • Police 'taught to treat the public as the enemy'
20 April, 2009 • G20 officer ‘pointed Taser at protesters’
17 April, 2009 • Surveillance evidence to be allowed in court
17 April, 2009 • Home Office dodges the issue on snooping powers
17 April, 2009 • Ministers to review councils' use of anti-terrorism surveillance powers
16 April, 2009 • DNA database: proven guilty
16 April, 2009 • Police, protest and the surveillance society
15 April, 2009 • DNA database brands people as criminals, says professor
15 April, 2009 • Internet privacy: Britain in the dock
14 April, 2009 • Eyeball spy turns the tables on Big Brother
14 April, 2009 • Abuse of police powers is unexceptiona
7 April, 2009 • Wasteful empire-building of ID agency
6 April, 2009 • Campaigners warn of user data creep
5 April, 2009 • Plan For `Internal Borders` Within The UK
3 April, 2009 • The Government wants to know about your day trip to the Isle of Wight
3 April, 2009 • Communications database could be brought in without parliamentary debate
3 April, 2009 • Why did the police punish bystanders?
2 April, 2009 • No 'surveillance society' for British, says Minister
2 April, 2009 • Police diversity guide derided for 'political correctness'
1 April, 2009 • National police database to share intelligence on millions
1 April, 2009 • Student finds mobile phone and is ARRESTED after handing it in to police
31 March, 2009 • DNA database grows faster than forecast
31 March, 2009 • Big Brother is watching: surveillance box to track drivers is backed
31 March, 2009 • Council accused of wasting cash after hiring ‘spy plane’ for £30
30 March, 2009 • 'Transexual joke led to police warning'
29 March, 2009 • Government advertisements run 10,000 times a day
29 March, 2009 • Headteacher bans eggs at Easter because of health and safety fears
29 March, 2009 • Big Brother is watching Bridgend
26 March, 2009 • Councils spied on public 10,000 times
26 March, 2009 • Government to monitor Facebook in 'Big Brother' database plan
25 March, 2009 • Council spying: List of odd uses for anti-terror powers
25 March, 2009 • Government to monitor Facebook in 'Big Brother' database plan
23 March, 2009 • Illegal government databases and what we can do about them
23 March, 2009 • Quarter of UK's databases are 'illegal'
22 March, 2009 • New rights spark ‘nanny state’ row
18 March, 2009 • Brits consider tracking all UK Facebook traffic
16 March, 2009 • Channel 4 defends use of hidden cameras in schools
12 March, 2009 • Pub landlord wins right not to fit CCTV cameras
12 March, 2009 • DNA bank for pregnant women
12 March, 2009 • Disturbing report into policing of Kingsnorth protest
11 March, 2009 • Internet ad tracking system will put a 'spy camera' in the homes of millions
4 March, 2009 • CCTV installed to monitor classrooms
2 March, 2009 • UK underground centre that is spy capital of the world
1 March, 2009 • Liberty groups unite to defend UK rights
27 February, 2009 • Database makes suspects of us all, watchdog warns
26 February, 2009 • Mass civil liberties rallies planned for UK
25 February, 2009 • Big Brother spy drones may soon hover over your home
25 February, 2009 • Fight against terror 'spells end of privacy'
24 February, 2009 • Straw forced into retreat over ‘Big Brother’ data sharing plan
24 February, 2009 • Remote-controlled planes could spy on British homes
23 February, 2009 • Blunkett warns over ‘Big Brother’ Britain
22 February, 2009 • Hazel Blears to attack political correctness
22 February, 2009 • Privacy law threat to Gordon Brown's phone tap plan
22 February, 2009 • Straw is told to ditch the 'snoop' law on personal data
20 February, 2009 • Children as young as two 'must be tested for obesity'
19 February, 2009 • UK has 'suffered wholesale removal of civil liberties'
17 February, 2009 • Ex spy chief says government risks "police state"
12 February, 2009 • Primary school receptionist 'facing sack' after daughter talks about Jesus to classmate
12 February, 2009 • Whatever happened to free speech?
11 February, 2009 • Councils to be given power to snoop on calls and emails
10 February, 2009 • The secret police are watching you
8 February, 2009 • Spy centre will track you on holiday
8 February, 2009 • The Government is creating a surveillance state
6 February, 2009 • Surveillance state is threat to freedom, say peers
2 February, 2009 • Call for two-child limit on families from Government adviser
2 February, 2009 • DNA tests done without consent
30 January, 2009 • Welcome to the brave new world of broadband for all – and Big Brother
26 January, 2009 • Food police come knocking on your kitchen door
26 January, 2009 • Child database plans unveiled
14 January, 2009 • Census answers could be passed to snoopers
14 January, 2009 • New giant database will store private details of EVERY person in 'Big Brother' Britain
12 January, 2009 • An Englishman's home is no longer his castle
10 January, 2009 • Call for safeguards over Big Brother database
10 January, 2009 • Now even police can't object to gipsy camp in picturesque village...because it's racist
9 January, 2009 • Email law 'attacks civil liberties'
7 January, 2009 • Britain's jack-booted paramilitary police
7 January, 2009 • Hundreds of children's details added to database every day
5 January, 2009 • UK's database plan condemned by Europe
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