Statewatch is a non-profit organization founded in 1991 that monitors civil liberties and other issues in the

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been ...

and encourages investigative reporting and research. The organization has three free databases: a large database of all its news, articles and links since 1991, the Statewatch European Monitoring and Documentation Centre (SEMDOC) which monitors all new justice and home affairs measures since 1993. The predecessor to Statewatch was "State Research" (1977-1982), which produced a bi-monthly bulletin and carried research. Among other activities, it monitors

anti-terrorist legislation Counterterrorism (also spelled counter-terrorism), also known as anti-terrorism, incorporates the practices, military tactics, techniques, and strategies that Government, governments, law enforcement, business, and Intelligence agency, intellig ...

, has a Passenger Name Record observatory, is concerned about asylum issues,

data privacy Information privacy is the relationship between the collection and dissemination of data, technology, the public expectation of privacy, contextual information norms, and the legal and political issues surrounding them. It is also known as data ...

biometric Biometrics are body measurements and calculations related to human characteristics. Biometric authentication (or realistic authentication) is used in computer science as a form of identification and access control. It is also used to identify ...

s, etc. The organization and its director, Tony Bunyan, have received awards for their civil rights activism including a 1998 award from the British Campaign for Freedom of InformationChristiane Schulzki-Haddouti
"Netzdepesche: Eurokraten versus Europakritiker"
("Eurocrats Versus Europe critic"), '' Der Spiegel'', 20 January 2000 (in German). and the 2011 "Long Walk" award at the

Liberty Liberty is the ability to do as one pleases, or a right or immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant (i.e. privilege). It is a synonym for the word freedom. In modern politics, liberty is understood as the state of being free within society fr ...

's Human Rights Awards."Liberty award for Tony Bunyan and Statewatch"

University of Bristol The University of Bristol is a Red brick university, red brick Russell Group research university in Bristol, England. It received its royal charter in 1909, although it can trace its roots to a Society of Merchant Venturers, Merchant Venturers' sc ...

, 28 November 2011.

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