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Jade Helm, Terrorist Attacks, Surveillance and Other Fairy Tales for a Gullible Nation
Jade Helm, Terrorist Attacks, Surveillance and Other Fairy Tales for a Gullible Nation “Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.” ― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly Once upon a time, there was a nation of people who believed everything they were told by their government. When terrorists attacked the country, and government […]
Are You Ready for the e-PATRIOT Act?
Are You Ready for the e-PATRIOT Act? Earlier this month, news emerged that the US government had suffered its worst cyberattack ever. On June 4, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) revealed that hackers had penetrated its networks, possibly for many months. The data thieves stole personal information of up to 18 million current and […]
Leaked Documents Show FBI, DEA and U.S. Army Buying Italian Spyware
Leaked Documents Show FBI, DEA and U.S. Army Buying Italian Spyware The FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Army have all bought controversial software that allows users to take remote control of suspects’ computers, recording their calls, emails, keystrokes and even activating their cameras, according to internal documents hacked from the software’s Italian manufacturer. The […]
Bulk Phone Surveillance Lives Again, To Die in a More Orderly Fashion in Five Months
Bulk Phone Surveillance Lives Again, To Die in a More Orderly Fashion in Five Months A federal judge with the top-secret surveillance court on Monday breezily reinstated the NSA bulk domestic surveillance program that was temporarily halted a month ago, allowing the agency to go back to hoovering up telephone metadata for five months while it unwinds […]
Orwell’s Triumph: How Novels Tell the Truth of Surveillance
Orwell’s Triumph: How Novels Tell the Truth of Surveillance When government agencies and private companies access and synthesize our data, they take on the power to novelize our lives. Their profiles of our behavior are semi-fictional stories, pieced together from the digital traces we leave as we go about our days. No matter how many […]
If You Can’t Beat ‘Em: France Up in Arms Over NSA Spying, Passes New Surveillance Law
If You Can’t Beat ‘Em: France Up in Arms Over NSA Spying, Passes New Surveillance Law On Wednesday, France woke up to find that the National Security Agency had been snooping on the phones of its last three presidents. Top secret documents provided by Wikileaks to two media outlets, Mediapart and Libération, showed that the NSA had […]
Council of Europe Calls on U.S. to Let Snowden Have a Fair Trial
Council of Europe Calls on U.S. to Let Snowden Have a Fair Trial The Council of Europe, the self-proclaimed “democratic conscience of Greater Europe,” urged the United States on Tuesday to allow NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to return home and make the case that his actions had positive effects. The call for Snowden to be […]
Senators Walloped with ‘Intense’ Amount of Anti-C-51 Email
Senators Walloped with ‘Intense’ Amount of Anti-C-51 Email Words like ‘horrified’ and ‘terrified’ came up frequently, they report. Many senators say they’ve been stunned by the overwhelming flood of email they’ve received over C-51, the highly controversial Harper government security bill that passed a Senate vote earlier in the month. The vast majority of the […]
Hayden Mocks Extent of Post-Snowden Reform: “And this is it after two years? Cool!”
Hayden Mocks Extent of Post-Snowden Reform: “And this is it after two years? Cool!” Former National Security Agency director Michael Hayden on Monday marveled at the puny nature of the surveillance reforms put in place two years after NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed a vast expansion of intrusive U.S. government surveillance at home and abroad. […]
The American far-right’s trojan horse in Westminster
The American far-right’s trojan horse in Westminster Elites are using the Henry Jackson Society to sell surveillance, war, white supremacism, banks, and misogyny There is a violent extremist fifth column operating at the heart of power in Britain, and they stand against everything we hold dear in Western democracies: civil liberties, equality, peace, diplomacy and […]
