ACLU lawsuit against NSA mass surveillance dropped by federal court
Judge TS Ellis III dismissed the suit because it relied on ‘subjective fear’ that National Security Administration collects information that is innately harmful
Category: Surveillance News
“Everybody is a Suspect”: European Rights Chief on Edward Snowden’s Call for Global Privacy Treaty
Last month, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald and other privacy activists launched a new campaign to establish global privacy standards.
Investigatory Powers Act: Civil liberty advocates slam ‘intrusive’ Snooper’s Charter
The Investigatory Powers Act, set to be introduced by the UK government in November, has been heavily criticised by privacy advocates for giving MI5, MI6 and GCHQ the power to hack into people’s smartphones. The so-called Snooper’s Charter will allow intelligence agencies to access private photographs, documents and communications without…
Apple CEO Tim Cook vs NSA: Good guys shouldn’t get their own backdoors
The NSA still wants backdoors to bypass encryption – but Apple’s CEO Tim Cook maintains that system just won’t do.
Let’s talk about that NSA Diffie-Hellman crack
‘Logjam’ crypto bug researchers expand on theory in talk
The Guardian view on surveillance: licence to pry on parliament
The ‘Wilson doctrine’ prohibited snooping on MPs, but it has been ruled to have no legal force. Maybe this will encourage them to start taking privacy seriously
On its way: A Google-free, NSA-free IT infrastructure for Europe
Take open source. Enlist Euro carriers. How hard was that?
Top five surveillance stories 12/10 to 18/10
The most viewed tweets posted by @DCSSproject, and a few that went under the radar.
Former NSA Directors Coming Out Strongly *Against* Backdooring Encryption
Earlier this summer, we were taken a bit by surprise when both former NSA/CIA boss Michael Hayden, along with former DHS boss Michael Chertoff, came out fairly strongly against backdooring encryption at a time when their counterparts still in the government seemed to be leaning in the other direction and…
Too much information… the threat of mass surveilance
Every click you make online can be harvested to build up a personal digital profile for use by snoops, governments and big business. Can this week’s European court ruling rein in such scary mass surveillance?