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Petition: Repeal the new Surveillance laws (Investigatory Powers Act)
A bill allowing UK intelligence agencies and police unprecedented levels of power regarding the surveillance of UK citizens has recently passed and is awaiting royal assent, making it law. This means it's not too late! This is an absolute disgrace to both privacy and freedom and needs to stop!
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Germany planning to 'massively' limit privacy rights
A draft law released by the German union for data protection (DVD) this week revealed that the interior ministry was proposing to drastically limit the powers of Germany's data protection authorities, banning them from investigating suspected breaches of people's medical and legal records. As well as expanding video surveillance with facial recognition software, the bill would limit the government's own data protection commissioners to checking...
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‘Snoopers’ charter’ petition hits signatures target
A petition asking government to repeal its Investigatory Powers Act has more than 118,000 signatures. By Zoe Kleinman.
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Enter ‘The Glass Room,’ Where Privacy Goes To Die
A new temporary exhibition in New York City offers an up-close look at the tools of the surveillance state—and how to fight them. By Joshua Kopstein.
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A World of Surveillance Doesn’t Always Help to Catch a Thief
A reporter’s credit card was stolen, so he counted all the video cameras in stores where it was used afterward. And then he included the data from the Uber rides. By Quentin Hardy.
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New U.K. Surveillance Powers Are 'Illegal', Rules E.U.'s Highest Court
The European Union's highest court has ruled that the "general and indiscriminate retention" of electronic communications by governments is illegal, in a direct challenge to the U.K.'s recently passed Investigatory Powers Act, the so-called "Snooper's Charter" (via The Guardian). The U.K. bill requires that internet service providers retain a record of all websites visited by citizens for 12 months at a time, but today's decision by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg ruled that the collection of data in such a manner puts citizens under...
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Watch Where You Click: From Today The Government Is Logging All Of Your Internet Activity
Oh! You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout - I'm telling you why: Draconian bulk data collection is coming to Britain. They're making a list, checking it twice, gonna find out who's naughty or nice, because the government is legally mandating ISPs to log your internet activity from today. They see you when you're sleeping, they know when you're awake, they know if you've been bad or good, so surrender your civil liberties for goodness sake!
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Dirty Money
The public health case for a cashless society. By Dina Fine Maron.
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A well-kept open secret: Washington is behind India’s brutal experiment of abolishing most cash
In early November, without warning, the Indian government declared the two largest denomination bills invalid, abolishing over 80 percent of circulating cash by value. Amidst all the commotion and outrage this caused, nobody seems to have taken note of the decisive role that Washington played in this. By Norbert Häring.
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Red Light Cameras, Drones and Surveillance
Fleecing the Taxpayer in the Age of Petty Tyrannies. By John W. Whitehead.
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Eyes Over Baltimore
How Police Use Military Technology to Secretly Track You. By Benjamin Powers.
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The Intimate Spectacle of “Public, Private, Secret”
Zack Hatfield contemplates secrecy as he surveys “Public, Private, Secret,” the latest exhibit at the International Center for Photography.
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It’s Official: Sixteen Government Agencies Now Have Access To Unminimized Domestic NSA Collections
The NSA can now be used for second-hand domestic surveillance, thanks to new rules approved by President Obama that went into effect on January 3rd. Those unhappy to see Trump in control of these expanded powers have no one to thank but their outgoing president for this parting gift. By Tim Cushing.
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Lawyer sues Chicago police, claims they used stingray on him
A local attorney has sued the City of Chicago and numerous police officials in a proposed federal class-action lawsuit, claiming that he and countless others were unconstitutionally searched when the police used a cell-site simulator without a warrant. In the suit, Jerry Boyle, who describes himself as an “attorney and longtime volunteer legal observer with the National Lawyers’ Guild,” alleged that while attending the “Reclaim MLK Day” event in Chicago nearly two years ago...
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NSA to share data with other agencies without “minimizing” American information
On Thursday The New York Times reported that the Obama administration had recently finalized rules to give the National Security Agency (NSA) more leeway in sharing its vast trove of intercepted communications with the 15 other government agencies that make up the Intelligence Community. Previously, agencies like the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation would have to request information on a target from the NSA.
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Trump Now Inherits an Expansive Surveillance State
In his final week in office, President Obama made several feel-good moves that played to his base. He transferred 10 Guantanamo detainees to Oman. He commuted the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning. He donated his children’s swing set to a D.C. shelter. And then there was his decision to significantly strengthen the surveillance state.
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Tor-developed smartphone app will detect internet censorship and surveillance
The Tor Project, responsible for software that enables anonymous Internet use and communication, is launching a new mobile app to detect internet censorship and surveillance around the world. The app, called “OONIProbe,” alerts users to the blocking of websites, censorship and surveillance systems and the speed of networks. Slowing internet speeds down to a crawl is one way governments censor internet content they deem illegal. The app also spells out how users might be able to circumvent the blockage.
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UK public faces mass invasion of privacy as big data and surveillance merge
The privacy of the public is at risk of being invaded on a mass scale without its consent as the collection of big data meshes with proliferation of video surveillance, the government’s CCTV watchdog has warned. Launching a new three-year strategy, the surveillance camera commissioner, Tony Porter, admitted that regulators and the government were struggling to keep up with the pace of technological change.
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Japan Made Secret Deals With the NSA That Expanded Global Surveillance
Top-secret documents reveal the complex relationship the NSA has maintained with Japan over a period of more than six decades. By Ryan Gallagher.
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‘I See You’: A Domestic Violence Survivor Talks About Being Surveilled By Her Ex
The pluspluspodcast dives into the horrifying world of smartphone spyware. By Jason Koebler.
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