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Surveillance law prompts unease in France
A proposed French law to beef up intelligence-gathering in the face of jihadist violence has provoked outspoken criticism about infringement of civil liberties, says Hugh Schofield.
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How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text - The Intercept
Most people realize that emails and other digital communications they once considered private can now become part of their permanent record. But even as they increasingly use apps that understand what they say, most people don’t realize that the words they speak are not so private anymore, either.
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DEA Can't Tell Senate How Detained Student Was Left to Drink Own Urine to Live
During an obscure Senate hearing on Tuesday morning, lawmakers vented their frustrations with the Drug Enforcement Agency for failing to answer questions about an incident that saw a man almost die of dehydration while in its custody. “At what point do I have to conclude that the [Drug Enforcement Agency] is hiding something about what happened here?” asked Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, unsuccessfully prodding a DEA witness to explain why Senate inquiries into...
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China rates its own citizens - including online behaviour
The Chinese government is currently implementing a nationwide electronic system, called the Social Credit System, attributing to each of its 1,3 billion citizens a score for his or her behavior. The system will be based on various criteria, ranging from financial credibility and criminal record to social media behavior. From 2020 onwards each adult citizen should, besides his identity card, have such a credit code.
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NSA is so overwhelmed with data, it's no longer effective, says whistleblower
A former National Security Agency official turned whistleblower has spent almost a decade and a half in civilian life. And he says he's still "pissed" by what he's seen leak in the past two years. In a lunch meeting hosted by Contrast Security founder Jeff Williams on Wednesday, William Binney, a former NSA official who spent more than three decades at the agency, said the US government's mass surveillance programs have become so engorged with data that they are no longer effective...
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“It’s pure authoritarianism”: Glenn Greenwald exposes the link between Baltimore’s uprising and the NSA
Award-winning journalist tells Salon why the erosion of civil liberties at home and abroad is interconnected.
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Court’s Reversal Leaves Phones Open to Warrantless Tracking
Today US circuit court handed privacy advocates a surprising reversal on a landmark pro-privacy decision.
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The FBI’s secret air force watched the streets of Baltimore
Surveillance aircraft were sent to help Baltimore police spot "possible criminal activity."
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German spies curb Internet snooping for U.S. after row: media
Germany has halted its Internet surveillance for the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) in response to a row over the BND intelligence agency's cooperation with Washington, German media reported on Thursday.
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Federal court rules NSA illegally spied on millions of Americans
The data collection is not authorized under the Patriot Act.
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Bill C-51 passes in House of Commons
The federal government's controversial new anti-terrorism bill has won the approval of the House of Commons. The Anti-Terrorism Act, also known as Bill C-51, easily passed third reading by a margin of 183 to 96, thanks to the Conservative government's majority and the promised support of the third-party Liberals. The legislation gives the Canadian Security Intelligence Service more power to thwart suspected terrorist plots — not just gather information about them.
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Bill C-51: Soon to be law, and as murky as ever
‘Bill C-51 about to be passed in Canada. See you in the slammer, kids,” Margaret Atwood tweeted on Tuesday. With all due respect to the author of The Handmaid’s Tale, we don’t think she will end up in a prison cell after the Harper government’s anti-terrorism act goes into law. On the other hand, we don’t exactly know...
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Banks Now Eyeing Cell Phone Metadata To Determine Your Loan Risk
We've long talked about how companies are only just starting to figure out the litany of ways they can profit from your cell location, GPS and other collected data, with marketers, city planners, insurance companies and countless other groups...
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Germany has stopped sharing internet surveillance info with the NSA
Last month, it was revealed that Germany's electronic surveillance agency, the BND, spent years spying for the NSA, snagging communications on European politicians and defense contractors. The revelation has caused a scandal in Germany, and Reuters reports that the BND has now stopped sharing the sensitive information.
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The FBI's Secret Air Force Is Watching Us
This might come as a shock: The FBI has a secret air force of sorts that’s recently been buzzing over Baltimore. Or maybe it’s not a shock at all. The FBI’s been using aircraft for decades. These new planes, however, use surveillance equipment designed for warfare and capable of tracking innocent citizens. That’s bad.
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Court Vindicates Edward Snowden
The decision vindicates his contention that the NSA's metadata collection program is unlawful. (May 7, 2015)
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1975 Article On Internet Spying Not Written By Time Traveler, Probably
People often think about internet spying as relatively new. But the internet was used for spying before we even called it the internet—and when we look back at news articles from the era, we can’t say we weren’t warned. As just one more in a long list of examples, take a December 1975 article by Tad Szulc in The Washington Monthly. Szulc explains that this new thing called the ARPANET (the packet-switched precursor to our modern internet) had the potential to be used by...
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NSA asked Germany ‘to spy’ on Siemens
The US intelligence agency NSA asked its German partner service BND to spy on the European country's engineering and technology giant Siemens, a German newspaper reported Sunday. In the latest report on a widening spying scandal, the newspaper said the US National Security Agency (NSA) suspected that Siemens was supplying communications technology to a Russian secret service, said the newspaper, citing unnamed US intelligence sources.
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Warrantless airport seizure of laptop “cannot be justified,” judge rules
Feds said a laptop is simply a "container" that can be searched without warrant.
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