But swabbing hands does not, by itself, raise civil liberty problems, Stanley said.
Mr Blair is no liberal, splutters Mr Kennedy: just look at New Labour's authoritarian record on asylum-seekers, jury trials, civil liberty and all the rest.
This is a civil liberty which should be available to all.
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In the UK civil liberty groups fear that the EU law will be used to help usher in another controversial law that also mandates data retention.
Thus far it has been a gentlemanly, Lords-like debate - largely among lawyers and retired spooks - about the nuanced battle between national security and civil liberty.
The change meant police could keep DNA samples from suspects even if they went on to be acquitted at court - a move criticised by civil liberty groups.
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Civil liberty campaign groups expressed frustration with Mr Anderson's report.
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The ACLU Director Anthony Romero called it one of the worst civil liberty measures ever enacted in American history, and that kind of echoes what House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said.
But in the midst of a tetchy discussion, one voice did defend the Western understanding of democracy and civil liberty, and indeed the compatibility of those principles with the devout practice of Islam.
Now, three civil liberty groups, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and Privacy International, have sent another letter to the Council of Europe outlining their "continuing concerns" over the wording of the treaty and saying that their fears have not been laid to rest.
"We fully support the police using technology to combat crime and terrorism, but law-abiding New Yorkers should not end up in a police database every time they walk their dog, go to the doctor, or drive around Manhattan, " Christopher Dunn, associate legal director at the New York Civil Liberty Union, said.
The committee, consisting of an unpaid group of people from the world of corporate privacy as well as the civil liberty community, were asked last December to review the plan and provide feedback on which privacy protections need to be put in place when info from DHS components (which include the TSA, the Secret Service, and Immigration Services, to name a few) are consolidated.
John Wadham, director of civil rights organisation Liberty, described the law as "a fundamental part of our criminal justice system".
The head of the civil rights group Liberty, John Wadham, admitted it would be counter-productive to allow all those targeted by the police to find out if their phones were tapped.
The proposals have been strongly criticised by civil rights groups Amnesty, Liberty and Reprieve, who are opposed to the use of withheld evidence in civil cases and the power the changes will give ministers.
Civil liberties campaign group Liberty welcomed the fall in such searches but urged ministers to introduce restrictions.
On Monday, the inquiry published evidence from organisations including the Home Office, the Association of Police Authorities, the Police Federation, the Law Society and the civil rights group, Liberty.
John Ashcroft regarding religious liberty and civil rights -- specifically the rights of religious minorities and his willingness to use the Department of Justice to promote or advance his personal religious beliefs.
The freedom to engage in economic activity is constitutive of a civil society and fundamental to our liberty.
With only 20 members and services just once a month, New Liberty never played a part in the civil rights movement.
Mr. BARRY STEINHARDT (American Civil Liberties Union's Program on Technology and Liberty): Well, the primary thing that's wrong with it, of course, from a position of just an average citizen here, is it doesn't work.
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Civil society and governments are coming together as never before to promote liberty, share knowledge, and protect human dignity.
The Secretary of State for Justice, Ken Clarke, has suggested that financial help in civil cases should only be routinely available in situations where "life or liberty" was at stake.
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Brigitte Amiri, senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union, argued the business owners are trying to use a religious liberty claim to deny benefits to someone else.
Shami Chakrabarti, director of human rights campaign group Liberty, told the BBC that it would change procedures for people bringing a civil claim against public bodies.
One independent study for the World Bank a decade ago found a surprising link between projects the bank financed and civil liberties: projects in countries with strong civil liberties had far higher rates of return than those in countries with weak traditions of liberty.
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