For an international coalition to fight Internet censorship

January 24, 2018Leave a comment

23 January 2018 — WSWS

An open letter from the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site to socialist, anti-war, left-wing and progressive websites, organizations and activists

The United States government, in the closest collaboration with Google, Facebook, Twitter and other powerful information technology corporations, is implementing massive restrictions on Internet access to socialist, antiwar and progressive websites. Similar repressive policies are being enacted by capitalist governments in Europe and throughout the world.

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Facebook and Google outline unprecedented mass censorship at US Senate hearing By Andre Damon

January 18, 2018Leave a comment

18 January 2018– WSWS

Behind the backs of the US and world populations, social media companies have built up a massive censorship apparatus staffed by an army of “content reviewers” capable of seamlessly monitoring, tracking, and blocking millions of pieces of content.

The character of this apparatus was detailed in testimony Wednesday from representatives of Facebook, Twitter, and Google’s YouTube before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, chaired by South Dakota Republican John Thune.

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NSA "Intelligence Report" Does NOT Show "Russia Executed A CyberAttack" By Moon Of Alabama

June 7, 2017Leave a comment

6 June 2017 — Moon of Alabama

Yesterday The Intercept published a leaked five page NSA analysis about alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections. Its reporting outed the leaker of the NSA documents. That person, R.L. Winner, has now been arrested and is likely to be jailed for years if not for the rest of her life.

Intercepted source – R.L. Winner

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National Security Archive 16 September 2015: President’s Daily Briefs from Kennedy and Johnson Finally Released

September 17, 2015Leave a comment

16 September 2015 — National Security Archive

President’s Daily Briefs from Kennedy and Johnson Finally Released (Eight Years After Archive, Professor Larry Berman Lawsuit)

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China’s Cyberspying Is ‘on a Scale No One Imagined’–if You Pretend NSA Doesn’t Exist

August 4, 20151 Comment

4 August 2015 — FAIR

Stories about cyberespionage–like the data theft at the US Office of Personal Management believed but not officially stated to have been carried out by China–are weird. For one thing, they include quotes about how “we need to be a bit more public” about our responses to cyberattacks–delivered from White House officials who speak only on condition of anonymity.

That’s from a July 31 piece by the New York Times‘ David Sanger, which, as Marcy Wheeler of the blog Emptywheel (8/1/15) pointed out, had a certain amount of fiction mixed in with its reporting.

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Treasure Map: The NSA and GCHQ Campaign Against German Satellite Companies

September 15, 2014Leave a comment

14 September 2014 — The Intercept

“Fuck!” That is the word that comes to the mind of Christian Steffen, the CEO of German satellite communications company Stellar PCS. He is looking at classified documents laying out the scope of something called Treasure Map, a top secret NSA program. Steffen’s firm provides internet access to remote portions of the globe via satellite, and what he is looking at tells him that the company, and some of its customers, have been penetrated by the U.S. National Security Agency and British spy agency GCHQ.

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UK journalists could be labeled ‘terrorists’ for attempting to uphold public interest

July 23, 2014Leave a comment

22 July 2014 – RT

British journalists who publish politically motivated content could be labeled terrorists if UK authorities deem the material to be a threat to public safety, according to Britain’s counter-terrorism watchdog.

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United Nations report: US, UK surveillance programs violate international law By Thomas Gaist

July 18, 2014Leave a comment

18 July 2014 — WSWS

A report released Wednesday by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) Navi Pillay, entitled “The Right to Privacy in the Digital Age”, finds that surveillance practices carried out by the major powers, the United States and the United Kingdom, in particular, violate basic principles of international law and are destructive of democratic rights.

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DRIP filter: Controversial data retention bill forced through parliament

July 16, 2014Leave a comment

16 July 2014 — RT

British MPs are pressing ahead with implementing a controversial bill requiring phone and internet companies to retain their customer’s data for up to a year granting security services unprecedented access to it. Continue reading →

What Exactly Are the Spy Agencies Actually DOING with their Bag of Dirty Tricks?

July 16, 2014Leave a comment

16 July 2014 — WashingtonsBlog

SPECIFIC EXAMPLES OF WHAT THEY MAY BE DOING

Newly-released documents from Edward Snowden show that the British spy agency GCHQ has developed numerous offensive digital tools.

But what exactly are they doing with these dirty tricks?

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‘It defies belief’: Snowden condemns UK’s new surveillance bill

July 14, 2014Leave a comment

14 July 2014 — RT

NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, has denounced the UK’s emergency surveillance bill, criticizing its heightened powers of intrusion along with the distinct lack of public debate it encompassed.

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The CIA spying scandal and the disintegration of American democracy By Tom Carter

July 14, 2014Leave a comment

14 Julyb2014 — WSWS

Last Thursday, the US Department of Justice quietly announced that it would not launch a criminal investigation following the revelation in March that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had spied on the staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee. News of this decision—which concerns one of the most significant constitutional breaches in modern American history—was barely reported in the establishment media and prompted no significant response from any section of the political establishment.

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NSA’s Retention of Intimate Details and Photos of Innocent Americans Which are Admittedly “USELESS” for National Security Shows Malintent

July 11, 2014Leave a comment

11 July 2014 — WashingtonsBlog

” ‘Collect It All, Know It All’ Is Actually the Stasi Model”

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Station Chief Ousted as CIA Spies Found in German Parliament and Spy Agency By Dave Lindorff

July 11, 2014Leave a comment

11 July 2014 — Dissident Voice

MUNICH — You have to wonder how much more the German public will take of the country’s ongoing humiliation by the United States and its extensive program of secretly spying on what nominally is one of America’s most reliable allies.

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Fascism…are we there yet? Wall Street is making it happen By Margarida Fragoso

July 10, 2014Leave a comment

10 July 2014 — The Greanville Post

Want to hear the worst idea in the history of horrible ideas? How about we take the industry responsible for destroying the U.S. economy and wrecking the lives of tens of millions of people, and then allow it to create a “government-industry cyber war council.”It appears that trillions in taxpayer bailouts simply wasn’t enough for Wall Street.

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The National Security State: UK gov rushes through emergency law on data retention By Kelly Fiveash

July 10, 2014Leave a comment

10 July 2014 — The Register

Cameron: ‘The consequences of not acting are grave’

Emergency law is expected within days to be pushed through Parliament that will force ISPs to retain customer data to allow spooks to continue to spy on Brits’ internet and telephone activity, after existing powers were recently ruled invalid by the European Union’s highest court.

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Airport security agency bans powerless electronic devices on flights to US By Thomas Gaist

July 10, 2014Leave a comment

10 July 2014 — WSWS

The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) began implementing a policy this week barring international air travelers en route to the US from bringing uncharged or “powerless” electronic devices onboard their flights. The new restriction is one element of heightened airport security measures announced by the US government last week in accordance with its latest “terror alert.”

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NSA Targets As “Extremists” Americans Who Simply Wish to Protect Themselves from Oppression

July 6, 2014Leave a comment

6 JUly 2014 — WashingtonsBlog

Like a Cancer that Treats Any Immune System Response as a Threat to Be Challenged

In the wake of revelations about the extent of mass surveillance by the NSA and other agencies, people are trying to protect themselves by adopting encryption and other privacy tools.

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NSA targets anyone interested in online privacy By Joseph Santolan

July 4, 2014Leave a comment

4 July 2014 — WSWS

An article published on July 3 by German public broadcaster Das Erste reveals that the National Security Agency (NSA) is using its surveillance program XKeyScore to target users of the traffic anonymizing software Tor and the Tails operating system, for deep packet inspection, data retention, and heightened surveillance.

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Government Stops Glenn Greenwald from Publishing His Big Snowden Revelation … But Others Will Release ALL of the Snowden Documents to Prevent a War

July 1, 2014Leave a comment

1 July 2014— WashingtonsBlog

It’s been a dramatic day for whistleblowing news.

A month ago, Glenn Greenwald announced that he was going to publish his biggest story yet: the names of those the NSA has been spying on. Earlier today, Greenwald tweeted that he would finally publish the story tonight at midnight.

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