One of the most outrageous ways that the government has violated our Fourth Amendment rights against general seizures and searches has been through its system of tapping into the fiber optic cables of America’s telecommunications companies.
Long suppressed video finally makes it onto the web.
In an exclusive interview with Sputnik, the respected UK investigative reporter Duncan Campbell has said a western-led mass surveillance system developed in the 1960s is “bigger than ever, much more powerful and a critical component” of mass surveillance.
The most viewed tweets posted by @DCSSproject, and a few that went under the radar.
This is a guest post by author Gordon Corera, who looks at the history of the British spy services and explains one key truth: GCHQ is going to spy on you, no matter what David Cameron decides to do about encryption.
Concerns over Britain’s controversial Snoopers’ Charter are forcing tech companies based in the UK to leave the country. Following the 2015 general election in Britain, David Cameron announced the re-introduction of the Communications Data Bill, dubbed the ‘Snoopers’ Charter’. Details of the bill have yet to be disclosed, but according to…
Concern over personal data interception did not start with GCHQ and the NSA – hacking can be traced all the way back to the 19th century
One measure of a free society is how it treats its NGOs and campaign organisations. The recent revelation (Rights groups targeted by GCHQ spies, 23 June) that Amnesty International has been snooped on by the UK security services is the death of the canary in the coalmine.
WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Snapchat could all potentially be banned under the controversial so-called new ‘Snoopers Charter’ that’s being drafted at the moment. The Investigatory Powers Bill, mentioned in the 2015 Queen’s Speech, would allow the government to ban instant messaging apps that refuse to remove end-to-end encryption.
‘Librarians were the original search engine’ and long before Edward Snowden, thousands campaigned against the government violating privacy rights.
