BIG BROTHER & Co. are WATCHING us.... How Defenders Of NSA Dragnet Surveillance Are Stretching A 1979 Ruling To Pretend It's Constitutional. FBI Wants Backdoors in Facebook, Skype and Instant Messaging. The FBI has been lobbying top internet companies like Yahoo and Google to support a proposal that would force them to provide backdoors for government surveillance, according to CNET.
The Bureau has been quietly meeting with representatives of these companies, as well as Microsoft (which owns Hotmail and Skype), Facebook and others to argue for a legislative proposal, drafted by the FBI, that would require social-networking sites and VoIP, instant messaging and e-mail providers to alter their code to make their products wiretap-friendly. The FBI has previously complained to Congress about the so-called “Going Dark” problem – the difficulty of doing effective wiretap surveillance as more communications have moved from traditional telephone services to internet service companies. Ca m’énèrve #libre #microsoft #NSA #hadopi #pellerin #peillon #maman. Skype with care – Microsoft is reading everything you write. Did the FBI Lean On Microsoft for Access to Its Encryption Software? The NSA is reportedly not the only government agency asking tech companies for help in cracking technology to access user data.
Your Online Pictures Will Be Used To Identify You On CCTV. Despite the growing criticism worldwide for the privacy violations of the NSA, the National Security Agency continues to harvest millions of images of people from the web.
These images come from the communications that the NSA intercepts through its global surveillance operation, which comes equipped with a sophisticated facial recognition program. Yes, the FBI and CIA can read your email. Here's how. Yes, The FBI Used Malware To Try To Reveal Tor Users. Feds put heat on Web firms for master encryption keys. Large Internet companies have resisted the government's demands for encryption keys requests on the grounds that they go beyond what the law permits, according to one person who has dealt with these attempts. (Credit: Declan McCullagh) The U.S. government has attempted to obtain the master encryption keys that Internet companies use to shield millions of users' private Web communications from eavesdropping. These demands for master encryption keys, which have not been disclosed previously, represent a technological escalation in the clandestine methods that the FBI and the National Security Agency employ when conducting electronic surveillance against Internet users.
Aaron Swartz Explains Why The NSA Needs To Be Stopped. Lutte pour un net libre. Crypto prof asked to remove NSA-related blog post. Matthew Green is a well-known cryptography professor, currently teaching in the computer science department of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Last week, Green authored a long and interesting blog post about the recent revelations that the National Security Agency (NSA) has, among much else, subverted crypto standards. Supreme Court Sets Powerful Limits for Cell Searches, Fails to Protect Internet Streaming. San Francisco - The U.S.
Supreme Court issued two big rulings in important technology cases today. In a groundbreaking decision on cell phone privacy, the court set powerful limits for police searches of cell phones, ruling in two consolidated cases that law enforcement must get a warrant before accessing the data on an arrested person's cell phone. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed amicus briefs in both of the cell phone search cases that were at issue in today's decision. "These decisions are huge for digital privacy," EFF Staff Attorney Hanni Fakhoury said.
"The court recognized that the astounding amount of sensitive data stored on modern cell phones requires heightened privacy protection, and cannot be searched at a police officer's whim. In its opinion, the court confirmed the importance of the warrant requirement, writing "Our answer to the question of what police must do before searching a cell phone seized incident to an arrest is accordingly simple—get a warrant.
" How Britain exported next-generation surveillance — Matter. OVER THE PAST DECADE, countries all around the world have started to employ the same technologies Britain has been building for 30 years.
Australia began fitting mobile ANPR units to its highway patrol vehicles in 2009. The small Belgian city of Mechelen was selected to trial the system in 2011: by the following year, the city was already monitoring a quarter of a million vehicles every month. Push for Australians' web browsing histories to be stored. Intelligence agency ASIO is using the Snowden leaks to bolster its case for laws forcing Australian telecommunications companies to store certain types of customers' internet and telephone data for a period of what some law enforcement agencies would like to be two years.
The federal spying agency is supported by the Northern Territory Police, Victoria Police, Australian Federal Police, Australian Crime Commission and Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity, who all say they are in support of a data-retention regime. [Web history] as important to capture as telephone records. Northern Territory Police What type of data should be stored by internet and phone providers is another question. Silicon Valley protecting yourPrivacy? ; "the_conspiracy" Your Interest in Privacy Will Ensure You're Targeted By The NSA. Have you ever wondered if you’re on an NSA observation list?
The internet is fucked. In a perfect storm of corporate greed and broken government, the internet has gone from vibrant center of the new economy to burgeoning tool of economic control.
Where America once had Rockefeller and Carnegie, it now has Comcast’s Brian Roberts, AT&T’s Randall Stephenson, and Verizon’s Lowell McAdam, robber barons for a new age of infrastructure monopoly built on fiber optics and kitty GIFs. And the power of the new network-industrial complex is immense and unchecked, even by other giants: AT&T blocked Apple’s FaceTime and Google’s Hangouts video chat services for the preposterously silly reason that the apps were "preloaded" on each company’s phones instead of downloaded from an app store. Verizon and AT&T have each blocked the Google Wallet mobile payment system because they’re partners in the competing (and not very good) ISIS service. We’re really, really fucking this up. Leaked Watchlist Guidelines Show How the Obama Admin Abuses the 'State Secrets' Privilege.
The Intercept published a must-read story yesterday revealing the secret and incredibly vague rules the US government uses to place people on its terrorism watchlist.
Ashk4n : Of the 4 US webmail providers ... UK spy agency intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users. Britain's surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, secret documents reveal. Germany Opens Criminal Investigation On Alleged NSA Merkel Phone Tap. Documents provided by NSA leaker Edward Snowden indicated in October that the U.S. was monitoring Merkel's cellphone conversations, as well as those of 35 other foreign leaders. German Chancellor Angela Merkel smiles as she arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, 2014. Intrusion massive de la DGSE dans les communications des clients d'Orange : libertés en danger ! Communiqué commun de l'Observatoire des libertés et du numérique (OLN)1 Paris, 22 avril 2014 — Dans un dossier publié le 20 mars 2014, Le Monde a révélé – sur la base d'un document de 2010 du GCHQ britannique (Government Communications Headquarters) – que la DGSE avait accès « libre et total » aux réseaux d'Orange et flux de données qui y transitent.
L'article « Espionnage : comment Orange et les services secrets coopèrent » montre par ailleurs que les agents de la DGSE et d'Orange coopèrent à casser le chiffrement des flux de données correspondants. Ces activités ont lieu hors de tout cadre légal et judiciaire. Il est sidérant que ces informations n'aient donné lieu à aucune réponse du gouvernement. L'Observatoire des libertés et du numérique (OLN) exige que des réponses politiques, légales et pénales soient apportées à ces agissements. 1. CEOs and CISOs must share blame for data breaches. June 04, 2014. Cable Companies Are Astroturfing Fake Consumer Support to End Net Neutrality. Activists protesting outside FCC headquarters in Washington, DC, on May 15, 2014.
Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images. The Government Can No Longer Track Your Cell Phone Without a Warrant. How the Justice Department Keeps Its Cell Phone Snooping a Secret. A demonstration against NSA mass surveillance in Washington, DC, in October 2013. Photo by Elvert Barnes Photography In a move that has alarmed civil-liberties groups and transparency advocates, the Department of Justice has been working with local police departments across the country to squelch public-records requests on controversial cell-phone surveillance technology.
In December, USA Today reported that cell-phone surveillance technology originally designed for the US military was finding its way into state and local police departments across the country. Since the USA Today report, public-records requests have unearthed documents showing state and local police departments in 15 states using so-called “International Mobile Subscriber Identity" (IMSI) catchers such as Stingray, Kingfish, Harpoon, Amberjack, and Hailstorm. Machines that steal your phone’s data. Wireless network tracks civilians. ‘Smart’ Street Lights Analyze Voices, Track People. The airborne panopticon: How plane-mounted cameras watch entire cities. Apple's Fingerprint ID And How It May Take Away Your 5th Amendment Right To Protect Your Data.
Samsung's Smart TVs Are Collecting And Storing Your Private Conversations. Techdirt - Guess who's eavesdropping on you now? It's not... Bot Blocking Features of Distil's Content Protection Network. Facebook email: pointless endeavor, spammer's dream, or both? Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others launch campaign for NSA reform.