Governments can now easily see where we’re going, who we’re talking to, and what interests we have. All without our knowledge or consent, writes Elizabeth Farries.

Virtual reality computer technology will be used to investigate allegations that police in the North failed to protect a Catholic man beaten to death in a sectarian attack, it was revealed today.

IN Liberty v The United Kingdom, the European Court of Human Rights last week held that a system of mass surveillance operated by the British government to spy on all telephone calls, faxes and emails to and from Ireland was in breach of the right to privacy under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

THE British government was wrong to spy on phone calls, faxes and emails between Ireland and Britain, Europe’s highest court has ruled.

A human-rights body is planning to send a dossier to the United Nations and the US Congress on allegations that the RUC protected the loyalist murderers of a Belfast man.