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Orwell’s Triumph: How Novels Tell the Truth of Surveillance

June 29, 2015

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 […]

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Emails Reveal Coziness Between Koch Lobbyists and Regulators

June 13, 2015

Emails Reveal Coziness Between Koch Lobbyists and Regulators The close ties between corporate interests and the regulators who are supposed to police them contributes, many argue, to fundamentally lax oversight. Emails I recently obtained through a records request show how cozy a Koch Industries lobbyist is with officials at the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, the […]

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The Computers Are Listening: NSA Won’t Say if it Automatically Transcribes American Phone Calls in Bulk

June 9, 2015

The Computers Are Listening: NSA Won’t Say if it Automatically Transcribes American Phone Calls in Bulk Third in a series. Part 1 here; Part 2 here. When it comes to the National Security Agency’s recently disclosed use of automated speech recognition technology to search, index and transcribe voice communications, people in the United States may well be asking: But are […]

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Did Max Boot and Commentary Magazine Lie About Edward Snowden? You Decide.

June 6, 2015

Did Max Boot and Commentary Magazine Lie About Edward Snowden? You Decide. In the neocon journal Commentary, Max Boot today complains that the New York Times published an op-ed by Edward Snowden. Boot’s objection rests on his accusation that the NSA whistleblower is actually a “traitor.” In objecting, Boot made these claims: Oddly enough nowhere in his article — which is datelined Moscow — does […]

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Spy agencies target mobile phones, app stores to implant spyware

May 21, 2015

Spy agencies target mobile phones, app stores to implant spyware Users of millions of smartphones put at risk by certain mobile browser gaps, Snowden file shows Canada and its spying partners exploited weaknesses in one of the world’s most popular mobile browsers and planned to hack into smartphones via links to Google and Samsung app […]

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The Computers Are Listening: Speech Recognition Is the NSA’s Best-Kept Open Secret

May 12, 2015

The Computers Are Listening: Speech Recognition Is the NSA’s Best-Kept Open Secret Second in a series. Part 1 here. Siri can understand what you say. Google can take dictation. Even your newsmart TV is taking verbal orders. So is there any doubt the National Security Agency has the ability to translate spoken words into text? But precisely when the […]

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The FBI Busts Up Another of its Own Terrorist Plots and Politicians Rush to Blame the First Amendment

April 10, 2015

The FBI Busts Up Another of its Own Terrorist Plots and Politicians Rush to Blame the First Amendment Like other recent sensational “terror plots,” however, the criminal complaint unsealed yesterday demonstrates the key role of an undercover law enforcement informant in both formulating and facilitating the alleged plot. It doesn’t appear that Velentzas or Siddiqui actually planned or attempted to […]

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BRITAIN USED SPY TEAM TO SHAPE LATIN AMERICAN PUBLIC OPINION ON FALKLANDS

April 3, 2015

BRITAIN USED SPY TEAM TO SHAPE LATIN AMERICAN PUBLIC OPINION ON FALKLANDS Faced with mounting international pressure over the Falkland Islands territorial dispute, the British government enlisted its spy service, including a highly secretive unit known for using “dirty tricks,” to covertly launch offensive cyberoperations to prevent Argentina from taking the islands. A shadowy unit of […]

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MEXICO’S JOURNALISTS GRAB A TECH SHIELD AS THEIR FIGHT AGAINST THE ESTABLISHMENT ESCALATES

March 31, 2015

MEXICO’S JOURNALISTS GRAB A TECH SHIELD AS THEIR FIGHT AGAINST THE ESTABLISHMENT ESCALATES Mexico, a country where tens of thousands have been killed in drug-related violence, and where government officials have been complicit in corruption, murders, and disappearances, seems like a natural place to launch a safe, anonymous way for sources to get information to journalists. […]

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