Re: [Fsuk-manchester] [GeekUp] OTish: Convention on Modern Liberty

[Mark Reynolds]

I've also read about that, I think I'll go to the Manchester one.

2009/2/1 Simon Ward <address@hidden>:
> I haven't seen anyone else post this yet.  I'm thinking I'll be at the
> Manchester conference, and have no plans for London, but if a few want
> to go we could share transport.
>
> Simon
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> Has anyone here seen this[1]?
>
> It appears to be a gathering (or set of gatherings around the UK) of various
> civil libertarian type people, including NO2ID, Open Rights Group and, err,
> the Countryside Alliance.  Basically a grand coalition of everyone who feels
> that, perhaps, ID cards, CCTV on every street corner, secret coroners'
> hearings, ever-longer detention without trial, extended emergency powers for
> ministers, restrictions on human rights and FOI only a few years after the
> relevant acts were introduced, state-sanctioned snooping on private computer
> systems without a warrant, national DNA databases of innocent and guilty
> alike and, well, the long list of other things that the government is trying
> its luck with might just be a bit of a bad idea.
>
> I've tagged this as OTish because I know that this isn't always the place
> for political debate, but given that so much of this has implications for
> both the IT sector as an industry and geekness as a way of life, and is
> being picked up by some tech blogs[2], I thought it'd be worth posting about
> it here.
>
> Now, the important thing:  the main conference is in London and will have
> various politicians, campaigners and the odd C-list celebrity with a
> conscience speaking.  Various satellite conferences are being held,
> including one here in Manchester, being organised by NO2ID.  Is anyone on
> the list planning on attending this?  It's on Saturday February 28th, for
> pretty much a full day.  Apparently the satellite conferences will have
> access to live video feeds from London and will be able to submit questions
> and participate online.
>
> I'm trying to decide between attending the Manchester satellite or going to
> the London one (perversely, despite living in Manchester I know more of the
> people who will be attending in London).  I'm leaning towards Manchester on
> the basis that it would be good if we could have almost everyone who cares
> about these issues in the North West to gather together and get to know each
> other in order to spark future initiatives.  What does everyone think?  In
> the meantime, blogging or Twittering about the event would be great!
>
> Regards,
>
> Rob
>
>
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> [1] http://www.modernliberty.net/
> [2] http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/01/09/the-uk-governments-plans/
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