Telesur | 26 Jan 215 Google took nearly three years to inform WikiLeaks that it provided the U.S. Justice Department massive amounts of emails of group’s staff. WikiLeaks strongly criticized Google at a press conference in Geneva Monday for taking two and a half years to divulge that it had handed over staff emails from…
Cory Doctorow | | January 26, 2015 Michael from Muckrock sez, “Starting on April 19, 1956, the federal government practiced and planned for a near-doomsday scenario known as Plan C. When activated, Plan C would have brought the United States under martial law, rounded up over ten thousand individuals connected to ‘subversive’ organizations, implemented a…
Nafeez Ahmed | Medium.com | January 24, 2015 Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, western governments are moving fast to legitimize expanded powers of mass surveillance and controls on the internet, all in the name of fighting terrorism. US and…
Melanie Newman | Bureau of Investigative Journalism | 23 Jan 2015 The increasing use of encryption technologies in everyday emails and messaging services will lead to “ethically worse” behaviour by the intelligence agencies, a former head of GCHQ has predicted. Sir David Omand warned there would be greater intrusion on individuals’ privacy, not less, if agencies are…
Fidel Martinez and Daniel Rivero | Fusion | January 13, 2015 Millions worldwide have expressed their support for victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack by Islamic extremists, which left 12 dead. The tragic shooting has since become a referendum on people’s inalienable right to freely express themselves, a sentiment epitomized by the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie (“I…
Vincent Eastwood | Dec 5, 2014 This unprecedented town hall meeting highlights the fact that resisting state surveillance and the GCSB is one of the major battlegrounds of freedom in our time. Will we elect to preserve our rights and privacy or choose to become subservient to the will of a corrupt state and the wall…
RT | 4 Dec 2014 Collecting the call records of millions of Americans is nothing compared to the latest revelation about the National Security Agency. According to documents published on Thursday, the NSA is working to exploit every cell phone network on Earth. Classified documents provided to The Intercept by former United States government contractor…
Glenn Greenwald | The Intercept | 26 Nov 2014 Nobody – including al Qaeda or ISIS – so effectively terrorizes U.S. and British citizens as much as their own governments do. In May, 2013, a British Army soldier, Lee Rigby, was killed on a suburban London street by two Muslim British citizens, who said they were acting to…
by Mikael Thalen | Infowars.com | November 7, 2014 “It’s always on… voice recognition hears you from across the room” [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkOCeAtKHIc?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] Controlled by a user’s voice, Amazon boasts the device’s ability to answer questions, provide weather updates, and play music. “Amazon Echo is designed around your voice. It’s always on—just ask for…
by Cory Doctorow | BoingBoing | November 2, 2014 Biggest expansion of FBI spying power in its history The Bureau is seeking a rule-change from the Administrative Office of the US Courts that would give it the power to distribute malware, hack, and trick any computer, anywhere in the world, in the course of…