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If You Care About Privacy, You Should Change Your Twitter Settings Right Now
If You Care About Privacy, You Should Change Your Twitter Settings Right Now (ANTIMEDIA) Since Wednesday, Twitter has been sending out emails and notifications to its over 300 million monthly users to inform them of changes to their privacy policy. The new policy, which goes into effect on June 18, includes changes to data collection, […]
5 Gray Man secrets I learned as a surveillance operative
5 Gray Man secrets I learned as a surveillance operative One of the questions I get fairly often is “what is the gray man,” and rightly so. It’s a concept that most people have a vague idea about, if any idea at all, since pretty much all they’ve been exposed to is maybe reading The US […]
What happens when a Canadian border agent asks to search your phone?
What happens when a Canadian border agent asks to search your phone? And what can you do if it happens to you? Agents on both sides of the border can go through your photos, contacts, apps and other information stored on your devices. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Cody Anderson was one of millions of Americans who […]
French Government to Track Everyone, Everywhere
French Government to Track Everyone, Everywhere COMMENT: Martin, it happens now, as you wrote, all of each french citizen will be registered, fingerprints, adress, Job, banking account..they want to own us..Hell on earth ANSWER: Yes. As of Tuesday, February 21st, the registration requirement that they said were only to be applied to Yvelines and Brittany, it will be extended […]
On WikiLeaks, Journalism, and Privacy: Reporting on the Podesta Archive Is an Easy Call
On WikiLeaks, Journalism, and Privacy: Reporting on the Podesta Archive Is an Easy Call FOR YEARS, WIKILEAKS has been publishing massive troves of documents online — usually taken without authorization from powerful institutions and then given to the group to publish — while news outlets report on their relevant content. In some instances, these news outlets work in direct […]
New Film Tells the Story of Edward Snowden; Here Are the Surveillance Programs He Helped Expose
NEW FILM TELLS THE STORY OF EDWARD SNOWDEN; HERE ARE THE SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMS HE HELPED EXPOSE OLIVER STONE’S LATEST film, “Snowden,” bills itself as a dramatized version of the life of Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who revealed the global extent of U.S. surveillance capabilities. Stone’s rendering of Snowden’s life combines facts with Hollywood invention, covering […]
Privacy Advocates Fear Bill C-51 Consultations Will Be Skewed
Privacy Advocates Fear Bill C-51 Consultations Will Be Skewed Backgrounder on national security written to address policy concerns, not the public’s, says OpenMedia. The Liberal government has announced wide-ranging consultations on national security, including Bill C-51. Photo by Kent Lins, Creative Commons licensed. A Liberal government plan to hold public consultations on national security including changes […]
Looking Forward
Looking Forward Since its inception, International Man has offered prognostications about what the future will bring – economically, politically and socially. The principle writers of the publication have been at this for decades. Each one began by studying world economics and politics in order to make the best choices as to where to live, where to […]
New Study Shows Mass Surveillance Breeds Meekness, Fear and Self-Censorship
New Study Shows Mass Surveillance Breeds Meekness, Fear and Self-Censorship A newly published study from Oxford’s Jon Penney provides empirical evidence for a key argument long made by privacy advocates: that the mere existence of a surveillance state breeds fear and conformity and stifles free expression. Reporting on the study, the Washington Post this morning described this phenomenon: “If we think that […]
Intelligence Community Olive Branch on Data Sharing Greeted With Skepticism
Intelligence Community Olive Branch on Data Sharing Greeted With Skepticism TOP INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY lawyer Robert Litt has offfered a rare olive branch to privacy advocates on Wednesday, in the form of information. In a post on one of their favorite blogs on Wednesday, Litt, general counsel for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, outlined new intelligence data-sharing guidelines that he said […]
5 Things You Should Know About the FCC’s Proposed Privacy Rules
5 Things You Should Know About the FCC’s Proposed Privacy Rules It stops Verizon’s zombie cookie in its tracks, but allows AT&T to keep charging customers extra if they want privacy. Federal Communications Commisison Chairman Tom Wheeler testifies at a committee hearing on Capitol Hill in March 2015. (Lauren Victoria Burke/AP Photo) Last week, the […]
New Safe Harbor Data “Deal” May Be More Politicking Than Surveillance Reform
New Safe Harbor Data “Deal” May Be More Politicking Than Surveillance Reform Lobbyists, government officials, and technology executives celebrated newsfrom Strasbourg on Tuesday morning that the European Commission and the United States had reached an agreement to reinstate the free flow of massive amounts of data between companies in the United States and the European Union, […]
Telecoms Must Defend Our Privacy, Court Confirms
Telecoms Must Defend Our Privacy, Court Confirms Ontario decision orders companies to represent subscribers’ interests. Court ruled law enforcement’s request for thousands of subscribers’ cell phone records breached Canadian Charter rights. Anonymous photo via Shutterstock. In today’s communications driven world, no one collects as much information about its customers as telecom companies. As subscribers increasingly rely on […]
