privacy
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Wikileaks Newslinks 27-28 November 2011
28 November 2011 — williambowles.info 28 November 2011 WikiLeaks wins Australian journalism award AFP SYDNEY — WikiLeaks has been recognised in Australia for its “outstanding contribution to journalism”, with founder Julian Assange lashing out at “cowardly” Prime Minister Julia Gillard in an acceptance speech. The anti-secrecy website was lauded at … http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gQRUCe6qxRkV8J7Q8Ix6HUPcD_Eg?docId=CNG.2fcb0cdc5742d63c5b84cb23c3483da7.271 Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 22 November 2011
22 November 2011 — williambowles.info December court date for Manning in WikiLeaks case PhysOrg.com Supporters of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange display photographs of Assange (C) and US serviceman Bradley Manning (R) outside the High Court in central London, in July 2011. Manning, the US soldier alleged to have passed to WikiLeaks a trove of …… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 15 November 2011
15 November 2011 — williambowles.info Court Decision Forcing Twitter To Give Up Info On Wikileaks Associates … Techdirt You may recall that the US government has been seeking all sorts of info on some folks who were somehow connected to Wikileaks as a part of its grand jury investigation, using the obscure 2703(d) process, rather… Continue reading
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Rupert ‘Dirty Digger’ Murdoch Newslinks 22-23 July 2011
23 July 2011 — williambowles.info Hacking In Brief: 23/07/2011 The Independent – Media RSS Feed Today at Midnight News Corp executive ‘leaked Cable story’ Ian Burrell Kroll, the global corporate investigations company, has named a top News Corp executive as the strong suspect in ‘orchestrating’ the leak of a tape which led to the downfall… Continue reading
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ECHELON: The Global Eavesdropping Scheme Dwarfs Murdoch’s “News of the World” By Sherwood Ross
As eavesdroppers go, next to Uncle Sam and John Bull, Rupert Murdoch, the moral force behind Fox News, is an amateur. That’s because a global eavesdropping scheme being run today by the United States and Great Britain dwarfs anything that Rupert Murdoch’s editors at The News of The World (TNTW) ever dared attempt. Continue reading
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News Corp scandal just tip of privacy-breaching iceberg — RT
As the scandal over voicemail and phone-hacking by the Murdoch media empire rages, public and political fury has focused on ruthless tabloids out of control. But some say in this day and age, the whole concept of privacy is falling apart. Continue reading
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News Corp scandal just tip of privacy-breaching iceberg — RT
As the scandal over voicemail and phone-hacking by the Murdoch media empire rages, public and political fury has focused on ruthless tabloids out of control. But some say in this day and age, the whole concept of privacy is falling apart. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, No 1 of 2: 13 June 2011 (15/11)
13 June 2011 — Statewatch – e-mail: office@statewatch.org STATEWATCHING EUROPE: Civil Liberties, the state and the European Union Saturday 25 June 2011 (10.00-17.30) Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL Programme and Registration form: http://www.statewatch.org/conference/conference.pdf Book Online:http://www.statewatch.org/ordering/order.html EU: Statewatch Analysis: Rethinking the EU Security Research Programme by Ben Hayes Council of Europe: NGO letter… Continue reading
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The “Hi Tech” Corporate Police State: “Reengineering” the Internet … for Persistent Surveillance By Tom Burghardt
The secret world of “cyber situational awareness” is a spymaster’s wet dream, made all the more alluring by the advent of ultra high speed computing and the near infinite storage capacity afforded by massive server farms and the ubiquitous “cloud.” Within that dusky haze, obscured by claims of national security or proprietary business information, take… Continue reading
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National Outcry Over TSA Body Scanners and Invasive Pat-Downs
As one of the busiest travel seasons of the year approaches there is a public outcry over new airport security measures that include full-body scanners and invasive police-style pat-downs. We speak with the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the American Civil Liberties Union, as well as New York City Councilman David Greenfield, who introduced a… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 13 August 2010: EU: European Investigation Order (EIO): JUSTICE: Briefing on the European Investigation Order
13 August, 2010 — www.statewatch.org/ Statewatch European Documentation Centre (SEMDOC): www.statewatch.org/semdoc/ Sitemap: www.statewatch.org/sitemap.htm 1. EU: European Investigation Order (EIO) 2. UK: Torture Guidelines 3. UK: Annual report: Intelligence Services Commissioner, 2009 4. POLAND-GERMANY: Suspected Israeli spy subject to European Arrest Warrant 5. UK: RESPONSE TO HUMAN RIGHTS JUDGMENTS 6. EU: EURODAC: Annual report 2009 7. … Continue reading
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NO2ID Newsletter 14 April, 2010: Election special – promise to protect privacy
This week, POWER2010 are focussing on privacy and government abuse of our personal information. They have set up a simple tool on their website which allows you to e-mail a customiseable letter directly to each of the parliamentary candidates in your constituency Continue reading
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NO2ID Newsletter 14 April, 2010: Election special – promise to protect privacy
This week, POWER2010 are focussing on privacy and government abuse of our personal information. They have set up a simple tool on their website which allows you to e-mail a customiseable letter directly to each of the parliamentary candidates in your constituency Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online – 31 March 2010 (06/10)
Home page: www.statewatch.org/ Statewatch European Documentation Centre (SEMDOC): www.statewatch.org/semdoc/ Sitemap: www.statewatch.org/sitemap.htm 1. EP: Surveillance of the sea external borders with the involvement of Frontex 2. MALTA: Grupp29: Stop the criminalisation of art Maltese authors and artists 3. EU: Council: rights to interpretation and to translation in criminal proceedings 4. EU-ISRAEL: Should the EU subsidise Israeli… Continue reading
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Becky Hogge: BT wants to monitor your online activities
Phorm, which dials direct into your internet service provider’s network and intercepts communications between you and the websites you visit, using information about the sorts of things you are viewing to serve you targeted ads. Continue reading
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No to the database state! Spam Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for one day!
A Facebook protest against the government’s planned £12 billion ‘super database’ of electronic communications has called on people to forward all their emails to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for one day. Continue reading
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Christopher Parsons: Britain’s Digital Surveillance: Hiding from Her Majesty’s ‘Black Boxes’
I want to address that deficiency, calling attention to the Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technologies that will presumably be responsible for examining, categorizing, and heuristically evaluating the data flowing across British ISPs’ networks. Continue reading
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THE ALTERNATIVE CONSULTATION ON EU JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS POLICY
Please take a few moments to complete the survey and have your say on EU justice and home affairs policy: Continue reading
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The State under siege or is it the people? By William Bowles
Not since the 1920s has the capitalist state been so threatened but ironically not by revolution but by its own complete lack of creditability. On every front its actions are being questioned as never before, whether its actions in far-off lands or its domestic policies. Continue reading
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Big Brother is Watching/Acting By William Bowles
Rackspace is the US-owned corporation which hosts a number of Indymedia Websites that got closed down around the planet last week including a number here in London. In all, a total 140 Websites in around 17 countries have been shut down, and although some of the UK Indymedia servers are apparently up and running once… Continue reading
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