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24 November 2013
Europe's Largest Internet Exchange Decides To Open US Office, Risks Making Itself Subject To NSA Demands
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The Internet may be a series of tubes, but those tubes have to be joined together. That takes place at Internet exchanges (IXs), where ...
23 November 2013
Nigeria Closer To Bringing In Comprehensive Internet And Phone Spying System, Probably Complete With Third-Party Backdoors
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One of the unfortunate consequences of the revelations about NSA spying on just about everyone is that it creates a false impression that...
Lavabit's Levison Now Avoids Email Altogether, Has Turned Into A 'Political Activist' Thanks To The NSA
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A couple of weeks ago, Mike reported on the extraordinary turn of events involving Edward Snowden's email supplier, Lavabit. The com...
The Canary in the Coal Mine: Groklaw Shuts Down
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If you follow me on Twitter or elsewhere, you'll have noticed that I've been tweeting rather extensively about the NSA' s spyi...
26 October 2013
UK Police's 'Ring Of Steel' Spying On Every Car Entering And Leaving Town Ruled Disproportionate
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The UK is famous for its abundant CCTV cameras, but it's also pretty keen on the equally intrusive Automatic Number Plate Recognition...
What Edward Snowden Has Given Us
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When Edward Snowden first revealed himself as the source of the NSA leaks, the Guardian released a short video interview with him in whic...
Leaked EU Policy Papers Show TAFTA/TTIP's Huge Challenges -- And Some Subtle Signals
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After last Wednesday's debate , the European Parliament passed a resolution on the subject of NSA surveillance , which included the f...
Controversial EU Data Protection Regulation May Be Negotiated In Secret In Breach Of Parliamentary Process
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Today, the European Parliament held a three-hour long debate on PRISM, Tempora and what the EU response should be. Many wanted TAFTA/TTI...
Turkish Police Shoot Down Surveillance Drone During Istanbul Protests
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As the growing number of Techdirt stories on the subject testify, drones are becoming a more familiar part of modern life. But their pr...
19 September 2013
Australia Drops Snooping Plans -- For Now
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Last year, we reported on Australia's plans to bring in comprehensive snooping on its citizens, and more recently how its spies had r...
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...
How Does Prism Change the Way We See Things?
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The extraordinary revelations about the NSA' s global spying programme Prism have only just started - was it really just last Thursd...
NSA Spying Revelations Start To Cause Outrage In Europe; China Next?
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News that the NSA has unfettered access to most of the leading Internet services inevitably has an international dimension. After all, ...
Australian Spies Want To Hack Tor After Realizing It Routes Around Their Surveillance
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One of the key flaws with the data retention schemes being proposed by the UK and elsewhere, supposedly to catch terrorists and serious ...
18 September 2013
Kiwis Want To Spy On All Communications, VPNs, And Be Able To Use Secret Evidence Against You
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Although New Zealand's decision not to allow patents for programs " as such " was welcome, other moves there have been more...
Indian Government Quietly Brings In Its 'Central Monitoring System': Total Surveillance Of All Telecommunications
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There's a worrying trend around the world for governments to extend online surveillance capabilities to encompass all citizens -- of...
20 July 2013
UK 'Snooper's Charter' Torn Up; Now What?
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Since the UK government published the draft version of its Communications Data Bill -- better known as the "snooper's charter&qu...
Lithuania And Estonia Use Google Maps Street View To Catch Tax Cheats
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As we've noted before, the information captured by Google's Street View has been put to some surprising uses, and the Boston Glo...
Please Write to Your MPs About Snooper's Charter
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It seems that the UK government will be deciding what to do about the Snooper's Charter this week. It is already under huge pressur...
17 March 2013
Top German Police Officer: 'Anyone On The Internet Has Left The Private Sphere'
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The Internet as a mass medium is still relatively young, so it's no surprise that its function in society and in our daily lives is s...
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