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The super-recognisers of Scotland Yard
How an elite police unit is catching some of London’s most prolific criminals. By Xan Rice.
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BBC Now Training Its Secret, Likely Imaginary, Fleet Of Detector Vans On Your WiFi
Nearly a decade ago, we wrote about the fact that the BBC supposedly has a fleet of totally secret "detector" vans that drive around trying to figure out who was watching the BBC without paying for it. By Mike Masnick.
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Thailand's military government plans to track foreigners' every move through their phones
Any foreigner stepping foot in Thailand may soon have their movements closely tracked by the country's military dictatorship thanks to a new plan to require a special tracking SIM card for visitors of any kind. Anyone who doesn't hold a Thai passport would be required to use the new SIM card, the country's telecom authority announced last week. The plan, which could be enacted within six months, has been justified by authorities who cite the country's fight against terrorism and crime.
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The Internet Doesn’t Route Around Surveillance
One of the most famous quotes about the web says that “the Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” But what about surveillance? Is it possible to make the internet route around spying? In the last few years, especially after revelations of pervasive monitoring by the NSA and its British sister spy agency the GCHQ, some countries, Brazil being the most vocal, have publicly announced their intentions to avoid sending internet traffic to the US and the UK in an effort to dodge surveillance.
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WiFi Signals Can ID Individuals by Body Shape
WiFi can be used to identify people in their own home based on body shape and motion patterns with over 90 percent accuracy. By Daniel Oberhaus. (Aug. 21, 2016)
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The NSA’s British Base at the Heart of U.S. Targeted Killing
The narrow roads are quiet and winding, surrounded by rolling green fields and few visible signs of life beyond the occasional herd of sheep. But on the horizon, massive white golf ball-like domes protrude from the earth, protected behind a perimeter fence that is topped with piercing razor wire. Here, in the heart of the tranquil English countryside, is the National Security Agency’s largest overseas spying base.
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Obama-era surveillance worse than Stasi, says Oliver Stone
US film director Oliver Stone on Thursday accused President Barack Obama's administration of implementing a surveillance system worse than that of the feared Stasi secret police in East Germany. Speaking at the San Sebastian film festival in northern Spain, where he presented his film "Snowden," Stone said many in the US had grown disillusioned with a president they once saw as "a man of great integrity."
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Spy Tech 'Hacks WhatsApp Encrypted Chat From A Backpack'
An Israeli company is marketing what appears to be an astonishing surveillance capability, claiming it can siphon off all WhatsApp chats, including encrypted communications, from phones within close proximity of a hidden Wi-Fi hacking device in a backpack. Brochures leaked to FORBES, and published below, revealed a non-public offering from Haifa-based Wintego called CatchApp. It promises an “unprecedented capability” to break through WhatsApp encryption and grab everything from a target’s account. It does so through a “man-in-the-middle” (MITM) attack; in theory the traffic is intercepted between the app and the WhatsApp...
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UK security agencies unlawfully collected data for 17 years, court rules
British security agencies have secretly and unlawfully collected massive volumes of confidential personal data, including financial information, on citizens for more than a decade, top judges have ruled. The investigatory powers tribunal, which is the only court that hears complaints against MI5, MI6 and GCHQ, said the security services operated secret regimes to collect vast amounts of personal communications data, tracking individual phone and web use and large datasets of confidential personal information, without adequate safeguards or supervision for more than 10 years.
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MI6, MI5 and GCHQ 'unlawfully collected private data for 10 years'
The UK's security services, including GCHQ, MI5 and MI6, have been unlawfully collecting and using mass datasets of personal information for more than 10 years. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has ruled in a judgement published online that the bodies had been collecting data without safeguards or supervision.
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Congress should unveil American surveillance
The US intelligence community still appears to be violating Americans' privacy with domestic spying operations. But to reform these actions, Congress first needs to know how spies really operate. By Nathan Leamer.
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Germany reforms its main intelligence service
The German parliament has subjected the country's intelligence service, the BND, to increased government scrutiny. But critics object that it also gives the BND wide-ranging new powers to spy on foreign nationals. By Jefferson Chase. (Oct. 21, 2016)
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The Little-Known Company That Enables Worldwide Mass Surveillance
Internal Endace documents reveal the firm’s key role helping governments harvest vast amounts of data on private emails, chats, and browsing histories. By Ryan Gallagher, Nicky Hager.
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AT&T Is Spying on Americans for Profit, New Documents Reveal
New documents reveal the telecom giant is doing NSA-style work for law enforcement—without a warrant—and earning millions a year from taxpayers. By Kenneth Lipp.
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Say goodbye to the fingerprint. It’s your digital footprint the FBI wants
Counterterrorism investigators rely as much on social media as they do on surveillance cameras to identify potential terrorism suspects. Data analysis a key part of the toolkit, they say. By Tim Johnson.
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Canadian newspaper says Montreal police tracked journalist's iPhone
A Montreal journalist whose iPhone was monitored by police for months said Monday he was outraged to discover he’d been “spied on” as part of what he calls an effort to identify his sources. The French-language newspaper said it learned at least 24 surveillance warrants were issued for columnist Patrick Lagace’s phone this year at the request of Montreal’s police’s special investigations unit. That section is responsible for looking into crime within the police force.
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Three New Scandals Show How Pervasive and Dangerous Mass Surveillance is in the West, Vindicating Snowden
While most eyes are focused on the presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, three major events prove how widespread, and dangerous, mass surveillance has become in the west. Standing alone, each event highlights exactly the severe threats which motivated Edward Snowden to blow his whistle; taken together, they constitute full-scale vindication of everything he’s done.
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President Obama Should Stop NSA Spying Before It's Too Late
President Obama has just 71 days until Donald Trump is inaugurated as our next commander-in-chief. That means he has a matter of weeks to do one thing that could help prevent the United States from veering into fascism: declassifying and dismantling as much of the federal government’s unaccountable, secretive, mass surveillance state as he can — before Trump is the one running it.
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Harsher Security Tactics? Obama Left Door Ajar, and Donald Trump Is Knocking
President Obama imposed self-constraints on his use of power in the war on terrorism, but his flexible approach gives Mr. Trump “a fully loaded weapon,” one critic said. By Charlie Savage.
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Your Government Wants to Militarize Social Media to Influence Your Beliefs
A conference in London this week brings together military and intelligence officials hoping to use social media as a tool in the armed forces. By Nafeez Ahmed.
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