State Surveillance, Counter-Terror Powers

A police photographer gathers data on activists as a unit of riot police clears Golden Square, Soho, during London protests against the G8 summit this summer. Image © Matt Salusbury

THE NUJ, together with the Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC), Statewatch, Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (CPBF), Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers invite you to a discussion on State Surveillance, Counter-Terror Powers and Global Securitisation Strategies.

The meeting follows recent revelations on new developments in the field of all-pervasive "security measures" and the rationale given for counter-terror measures and mass state surveillance.

Recent examples have been the unmasking of undercover police officers in activist circles; interrogation at airports under Schedule 7 to the Terrorism Act; the use of informers and electronic surveillance of - apparently - absolutely everyone by the NSA and GCHQ.

Speakers include:

• Tony Bunyan, director of Statewatch;
• Rob Evans, Guardian journalist and co-author of Undercover: the True Story of Britain's Secret Police;
• Matthew Ryder, QC at Matrix Chambers and representing David Miranda (subject of a recent Schedule 7 stop); and
• NUJ general secretary Michelle Stanistreet;

It's from 6.30-8.30pm on Tuesday 10 December 2013 at NUJ Headquarters in London.

It's free to attend, but you'll have to book - via Sarah Kavanagh, email: sarahk@nuj.org.uk.