UK government shamefully cooperated with U.S. in torture of al-Qaeda suspects We Americans have had a painful and difficult national debate over the past 20 years relative to torture. Torture was official U.S. government policy from 2002 until at least 2005, and that iteration was not formally outlawed until passage of the McCain-Feinstein Amendment in 2015. (The…

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A robber who threatened to stab an 11-year-old girl before stealing her electric scooter in Islington has been jailed. Adam McGeady, 32, was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison on Friday 9 December at Snaresbrook Crown Court. McGeady carried out the “terrifying” robbery on 24 September 2020 at around 6:15pm. Footage shows…

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A bill returned to the House of Commons last week would allows UK communications regulator Ofcom to force private messaging platforms to scan users’ messages for “harmful content.” It would also allow Ofcom to end the messaging services altogether. Platforms such as Whatsapp, Telegram and Signal boast end-to-end encryption (E2EE), meaning that private messages are…

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