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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 […]
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 […]
Crazyland
Crazyland A long time ago—almost a quarter of a century—I worked in a research lab, designing measurement and data acquisition electronics for high energy physics experiments. In the interest of providing motivation for what follows, I will say a few words about the job. It was interesting work, and it gave me a chance to […]
How Canada Can End Mass Surveillance
How Canada Can End Mass Surveillance Third chapter in OpenMedia’s crowd-sourced privacy plan. Just two short years ago, if you asked strangers on the street about mass surveillance, you’d likely encounter many blank stares. Some may remember East Germany’s Stasi spy agency, or reference China’s extensive Internet censorship. But few would express fear that western democratic governments […]
Canadians to Spy Agencies: Get a Warrant!
Canadians to Spy Agencies: Get a Warrant! Ranked first among privacy priorities, the people of Canada have spoken. Second in a series. Do our digital homes deserve the same right to privacy as our brick-and-mortar homes? This is one of the questions Canadians are asking after CBC News revealed that a government spy agency — the Communications […]
ENCRYPTING YOUR LAPTOP LIKE YOU MEAN IT
ENCRYPTING YOUR LAPTOP LIKE YOU MEAN IT Time and again, people are told there is one obvious way to mitigate privacy threats of all sorts, from mass government surveillance to pervasive online tracking to cybercriminals: Encryption. As President Obama put itearlier this year, speaking in between his administration’s attacks on encryption, “There’s no scenario in which […]
CSE worried about how its use of Canadian metadata might be viewed
CSE worried about how its use of Canadian metadata might be viewed Questions over spy agency’s definition of ‘tracking Canadians’ Canada’s electronic spy agency fretted over how its collection of cellphone and email metadata might be perceived even before CBC published a story on the agency using Wi-Fi data to track airport passengers, new documents obtained by CBC […]
Congress is Attempting to Reauthorize Key Patriot Act Provisions by Sneaking it Into “USA Freedom Act”
Congress is Attempting to Reauthorize Key Patriot Act Provisions by Sneaking it Into “USA Freedom Act” Yet with Section 215’s lifespan now stretching to a matter of weeks, supporters of broad surveillance powers have yet to put forth a bill for their preservation – evidence, opponents believe, that the votes for reauthorization do not exist, particularly […]
Inventor of Antivirus Sofware: The Government Is Planting Malicious Software On Your Phone So It Can Bypass Encryption and See What You’re Doing
Inventor of Antivirus Sofware: The Government Is Planting Malicious Software On Your Phone So It Can Bypass Encryption and See What You’re Doing Spy Agencies Are Intentionally Destroying Digital Security Top computer and internet experts say that NSA spying breaks the functionality of our computers and of the Internet. It reduces functionality and reduces security by […]
Police asked telcos for client data in over 80% of criminal probes
Police asked telcos for client data in over 80% of criminal probes Ottawa also sought legal advice on telco’s transparency reports Canadian police seek online and phone data from telecommunications companies in almost every criminal investigation, according to a briefing note to the federal minister for public safety, obtained by CBC News. The scale of the practice […]
Facebook tracking of online activity breaches EU law, report says
Facebook tracking of online activity breaches EU law, report says Tracking cookies collect data even if you don’t have a Facebook account, says Belgian universities Facebook can track your online activity even if you don’t have a Facebook account, and that may breach European privacy laws, according to a report by two Belgian universities. According to […]
