Top five surveillance stories 05/10 to 11/10
The most viewed tweets posted by @DCSSproject, and a few that went under the radar.
Category: Surveillance News
Tim Cook: The NSA Won’t Be Asking for Backdoors (Anymore)
Apple CEO Tim Cook said he doesn’t think we will hear the U.S. National Security Agency asking for a back door into our iPhones, at least not any more. In an interview on NPR’s All Things Considered on Thursday, Mr. Cook implied that even the FBI is coming around on…
France’s Government Aims to Give Itself—and the NSA—Carte Blanche to Spy on the World
The United States makes an improper division between surveillance conducted on residents of the United States and the surveillance that is conducted with almost no restraint upon the rest of the world. This double standard has proved poisonous to the rights of Americans and non-Americans alike.
Carly Fiorina on providing HP servers to the NSA: ‘I felt it was my duty to help’
‘What I knew at the time was our nation had been attacked.’
Human Rights Watch sues U.K. spy agency
Rights group wants to know if its communications were spied on and illegally shared with the U.S. National Security Agency.
Beyond Privacy: The Costs and Consequences of Mass Surveillance
Thus far, the debates surrounding mass communications surveillance have tended to focus on the importance of preserving privacy rights. Yet, as Esther Kersley reminds us today, the global shift to security by ‘remote control’ also comes with other costs and consequences.
Top five surveillance stories 07/09 to 13/09
The most viewed tweets posted by @DCSSproject, and a few that went under the radar.
Stop using difficult-to-guess passwords, UK’s spying agency GCHQ recommends
The British spying agency, found to have been conducting wholesale surveillance on UK citizens, has recommended that the public make their passwords less complex.
Homeland Security shuts down anonymous internet browsing at public library
First Library to Support Anonymous Internet Browsing Effort Stops After DHS Email.
NSA whistleblower James Bamford profiles Edward Snowden
Bamford was the first-ever NSA whistleblower, whose bravery led to the Church Commission and the unprecedented curbs on the agency’s spying powers — his long, sympathetic Wired profile of Snowden is full of insight and wisdom.