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		<title>Privacy International launches &#8216;Big Brother Incorporated&#8217; project on sale of surveillance tech to authoritarian regimes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mathias Vermeulen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m happy to announce that Privacy International has (re)launched it new big project called &#8216;Big Brother Incorporated&#8217;, which will (inter alia) investigate the sales of surveillance technologies to authoritarian regimes. The web content is available here and more comprehensively here. PI has now put online a comprehensive database of companies that sell surveillance products, some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=legalift.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5069658&amp;post=7666&amp;subd=legalift&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011 EHHR Special Issue on Protecting Human Rights while Countering Terrorism a Decade after 9/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mathias Vermeulen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Essex Human Rights Review has issued a &#8216;Special Issue on Protecting Human Rights while Countering Terrorism a Decade after 9/11&#8242;, which&#160; focuses on the practical implications and challenges of the changing landscape of counter terrorism measures since 9/11 and their impact on human rights. All articles can be downloaded from the website. Introduction Christina [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=legalift.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5069658&amp;post=7663&amp;subd=legalift&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parliamentary oversight of security and intelligence agencies in the EU</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mathias Vermeulen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the reasons for the lack of posts on this blog the past months is that I co-authored this large study (446 pages), together with Aidan Wills, for the European Parliament&#8217;s Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee (LIBE). The study came out today, and also includes a number of attachments written by national [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=legalift.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5069658&amp;post=7661&amp;subd=legalift&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New book by Kent Roach &#8211; The 9/11 Effect: Comparative Counter-Terrorism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mathias Vermeulen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 9/11 Effect &#8211; Comparative Counter-TerrorismKent Roach, University of Toronto Publication date: August 2011 448 pages Abstract: This book critically and comparatively examines the responses of the United Nations and a range of countries to the terror attacks on September 11, 2001. It assesses the convergence between the responses of western democracies including the United [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=legalift.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5069658&amp;post=7657&amp;subd=legalift&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Warsame and Somalia</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 01:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mathias Vermeulen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a brief experiment to couple the twitter-account to the blog via storify. &#8220; Kevin Heller and @benjaminwittes debate whether NYT has the right bearings on #Warsame http://bit.ly/qimjyP http://bit.ly/nva42D #lawsofwar opiniojuris July 19, 2011 &#8220; NYT editorial denouncing detention of Warsame prior to transfer to civilian custody. @benjaminwittes commentary to come. http://tinyurl.com/6aosvx6 lawfareblog July [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=legalift.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5069658&amp;post=7655&amp;subd=legalift&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A brief note to our readers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mathias Vermeulen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Due to many other commitments the posts on this blog have been less frequent, but I like to remind readers again that we are posting more frequently shorter links to news articles on our twitter account (http://twiter.com/legalift). Future posts here will be less frequent, but will contain more analyis.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=legalift.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5069658&amp;post=7651&amp;subd=legalift&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator on the Arab uprisings and the need for security sector reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mathias Vermeulen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The current situation in North Africa is one of great potential risk, but also great opportunity. The success of The European Union post Lisbon will be judged by the effectiveness with which we respond to these extra-ordinary opportunities, and this means successfully managing the risks involved. The way in which the autocratic regimes of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=legalift.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5069658&amp;post=7649&amp;subd=legalift&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Former Guantanamo detainee who was resettled in Slovakia arrested upon arrival in Egypt</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mathias Vermeulen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Egyptian security forces arrestedAdel Fotouh Ali al-Gazzar on Monday as he returned to Egypt for the first time in more than 10 years. al-Gazzar was resettled in Slovakia by the Obama Administration in January 2010 due to fears of persecution or imprisonment in Mubarak’s Egypt, where he was sentenced in absentia in 2001 by an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=legalift.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5069658&amp;post=7647&amp;subd=legalift&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Analysis of proposed PNR Directive</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mathias Vermeulen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read it here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=legalift.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5069658&amp;post=7645&amp;subd=legalift&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>9/11 Ten years on: Detection Technologies and Counter-Terrorism in Europe Conference &#8211; Brussels, 7 September 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mathias Vermeulen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DETECTER (Detection Technologies, Terrorism, Ethics and Human Rights) is an EU-funded FP 7 Security Research project which examines ethical and legal norms governing the use of detection technology in counter-terrorism. The project began in December 2008 and comes to an end in December 2011.&#160; The project has carried out original research on controversial topics, like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=legalift.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5069658&amp;post=7643&amp;subd=legalift&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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