Showing posts with label gchq. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gchq. Show all posts
26 July 2014

European Court Of Human Rights Fast-tracks Case Against GCHQ; More Organizations Launch Legal Challenges To UK Spying

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Back in December, we wrote about a legal action that a group of digital rights activists had brought against GCHQ, alleging that the UK...
25 July 2014

Why Mozilla Was Right: GCHQ & NSA Track Cookies

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During 2013, I've written a few articles about Mozilla 's attempt to give users greater control over the cookies placed on their ...

Legal Challenges To Spying Mount In UK

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It's taken a while for Europeans to recover from the discovery that they are being spied upon by the NSA (with some help from its fr...
24 July 2014

Companies Developing Crowd Analysis Programs To Detect 'Abnormalities' In Behavior And Match Faces Against Giant Databases

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One of the reasons that the total surveillance programs of the NSA and GCHQ are possible is that computers continue to become more power...

Australia Spied On Japanese Companies To Help Its Industries Negotiate Trade Deals

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As more information comes to light about the global snooping being conducted by the NSA and GCHQ, it is becoming clearer that much of it...
24 November 2013

Dutch Telcos Used Customer Metadata, Retained To Fight Terrorism, For Everyday Marketing Purposes

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One of the ironies of European outrage over the global surveillance conducted by the NSA and GCHQ is that in the EU, communications metad...
23 November 2013

Ex-MI6 Deputy Chief: 'Serious Actors' Already Knew About NSA's Techniques Before Snowden

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One of the key issues in the debate surrounding Snowden's leaks is whether they might be threatening our security by letting the ba...

The Deeper Meaning Of Miranda's Detention And The Destruction Of The Guardian's Hard Drives

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As many have already observed, the detention of David Miranda comes across as an act of blatant intimidation , as does the farcical destr...

NSA's Crypto Betrayal: Good News for Open Source?

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Revelations from documents obtained by whistleblower Edward Snowden that GCHQ essentially downloads the entire Internet as it enters and...
19 September 2013

UK Police Routinely Spy On 9000 'Domestic Terrorists' Very Loosely Defined

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In the wake of the news that spies at GCHQ -- the UK equivalent of the NSA -- have been tapping into every fiber optic cable that comes...

GCHQ Revelations Destroy Case for Snooper's Charter

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So the revelations from Edward Snowden keep on coming, exposing ever-more profound attacks on privacy and democracy in the UK and elsewh...