privacy
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Your medical data – on sale for a pound By Phil Booth
The government’s announcement today that private companies are to be given access to patient data for the princely sum of £1, is just the latest attack on the principles of patient confidentiality in the interests of commerce. Continue reading
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Snowden’s Asylum: ‘It’s the law, stupid’ By Richard Falk
Russia’s grant of temporary refugee status to Snowden for one year was in full accord with the normal level of protection to be given to anyone accused of nonviolent political crimes in a foreign country, writes Richard Falk Continue reading
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The infrastructure of a police state emerges in Europe By Peter Schwarz
The right to privacy—a basic human right enshrined in the American and every European Constitution—and the associated guarantee of the confidentiality of the post and telecommunications are being ripped to shreds. The wiretaps are so obviously illegal that intelligence agencies in one country often delegate their activities to foreign partners in order to avoid overly… Continue reading
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Snowden confirms NSA created Stuxnet with Israeli aid
The Stuxnet virus that decimated Iranian nuclear facilities was created by the NSA and co-written by Israel, Edward Snowden has confirmed. The whistleblower added the NSA has a web of foreign partners who pay “marginal attention to human rights.” Continue reading
The New Dark Age 