Further reading
If you want to find out more about the loss of civil liberties and the development of a surveillance society, this is a chronological list of reports from other organisations (select committees, academics, pressure groups and think tanks).
2009
- House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution, “Surveillance: Citizens and the State”
- Liberty, “ID Cards – Fiction and Fact”
2008
- The Royal Academy of Engineering, “Dilemmas of Privacy and Surveillance – Challenges of Technological Change”
- Home Affairs Select Committee, “A Surveillance Society”
- Dr. C.N.M Pounder Amberhawk, “Nine principles for assessing whether privacy is protected in a surveillance society”
- Surveillance Commissioners, “Annual Report 2007-2008”
- Home Affairs Select Committee, “A Surveillance Society?: Information Commissioner’s Response”
- London School of Economics, “Perceptions of Government Technology, Surveillance and privacy: The UK Identity Cards Scheme”
- Knowledge Politics, “Media and Public Perceptions of Identity Cards, Privacy and Surveillance – Public Opinion and Policy”
2007
- Surveillance Commissioners, “Annual Report 2006-2007”
- Liberty, “Overlooked: Surveillance and personal privacy in modern Britain”
- Privacy International, “Country Reports – UK”
- Privacy International, “Leading surveillance societies in the EU and the world 2007”
2006
- Surveillance Commissioners, “Annual Report 2005-2006”
- Surveillance Studies Network, “A Report on the Surveillance Society”
2005
- London School of Economics, “The Identity Project – an assessment of the UK Identity Cards Bill and its implications”
- Surveillance Commissioners, “Annual Report 2004-2005”
2004
- Surveillance Commissioners, “Annual Report 2003-2004”
2003
- Statewatch, “Surveillance of communications goes through the roof-doubling under the labour government”
- GreenNet, “Privacy and Surveillance – How and when organisations and the state can monitor your actions”
- Statewatch, “Identity Cards in the UK- a lesson from history”
2002
- Surveillance and Society, Nick Taylor, “State Surveillance and the Right to Privacy”
- State Watch, “The alternative 2002 annual report on surveillance”
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