ON BEING WATCHED!! 1

Operation Nomad

I had been pursuing an action for civil damages against the Avon and Somerset Police for the rude things they said about me in a police intelligence document - Operation Nomad bulletin. All to do with police interference of my photography, the Inglestone Common Free Festival and then Castlemorton. I have now settled the case.

Received a 1998 Big Brother Award
from Privacy International

Presented by Channel 4's Mark Thomas at the London School of Economics in October. Received an award for 'outstanding achievement' in contributions to the protection of privacy, for my photography of police surveillance techniques.

The presentation was made on the 50th anniversary of
the writing of George Orwell's 1984

Privacy International exists in response to a growing number of privacy threats, more than a hundred leading privacy experts and Human Rights organizations from forty countries linked to form an International organization for the protection of privacy. Members of the new body, including computer professionals, academics, lawyers, journalists, jurists and human rights activists, with a common interest in promoting an international understanding of the importance of privacy and data protection.