spying
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How One Spook-Run London College Department Is Training the World’s Social Media Managers
Staffed by NATO military officers and former government ministers and notorious for training the West’s top spies, the Department of War Studies at King’s College London is also providing the workforce for many of the largest social media companies. This includes Facebook, TikTok, Google, and Twitter. Continue reading
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LIVE: Why are former CIA Agents flocking to Facebook & Google? With Lowkey & Alan MacLeod
Scheduled for Aug 17, 2022: Lowkey is joined by investigative journalist Alan MacLeod to examine the latest influx of former CIA agents into the rants of Facebook and Google. Continue reading
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CIA, Pompeo Sued For Allegedly Spying On US Attorneys And Journalists Who Met With Assange
A group of journalists and lawyers, who visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange while he was living under political asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy, sued the CIA and former CIA director Mike Pompeo. They allege that the agency under Pompeo spied on them in violation of their privacy rights. Continue reading
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BREAKING: 11 AM Press Conference! CIA & Mike Pompeo SUED for Spying on Americans!
Remember when news broke that the CIA plotted to kidnap or assassinate Julian Assange, and that they colluded with a foreign security firm to spy on those who visited him in the embassy? Today, attorneys announced a bombshell lawsuit against the CIA, its former Director Mike Pompeo, and the security firm he conspired with. Continue reading
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Privacy: Spam, Spies and SMS: How it works
By Crofton Black: Need to verify your identity on a phone? Reset a password? Log in to a sensitive site or account? You’ll probably get a text message to check who you are. But it won’t come directly from your account provider. Instead, it will come via one or more middlemen: little-known bulk messaging companies that… Continue reading
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Meet Toka, the Most Dangerous Israeli Spyware Firm You’ve Never Heard Of
LONDON – This past Sunday, an investigation into the global abuse of spyware developed by veterans of Israeli intelligence Unit 8200 gained widespread attention, as it was revealed that the software – sold to democratic and authoritarian governments alike – had been used to illegally spy on an estimated 50,000 individuals. Among those who had their communications and… Continue reading
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U.S. Takes Down Israeli Spy Software Company
A number of international papers report today on the Israeli hacking company NSO which sells snooping software to various regimes. The software is then used to hijack the phones of regime enemies, political competition or obnoxious journalists. All of that was already well known but the story has new legs as several hundreds of people who were… Continue reading
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Examining the Stasi, Seeing the NSA
From the Archives: For many years, the East German Stasi was viewed as the most totalitarian of intelligence services, relentlessly spying on its citizens during the Cold War. But the Stasi’s capabilities pale in comparison to what the NSA can now do, notes former U.S. intelligence analyst Elizabeth Murray. Continue reading
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U.S. Warms Up Old Spy Story To Warn Of Foreign Espionage
For more than half a century, governments all over the world trusted a single company to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers and diplomats secret. But what none of its customers ever knew was that Crypto AG was secretly owned by the CIA in a highly classified partnership with West German intelligence. These spy… Continue reading
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COPS campaign update April 2018
29 April 2018 — COPS It’s been a busy month of revelations abour Britain’s political secret police. Here’s a rundown: The Met finally admitted that Special Branch officers illegally supplied info on political activists for construction industry blacklisting. Activists have long shown that spycops officer Mark Jenner was a member of construction union UCATT, and Continue reading
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For an international coalition to fight Internet censorship
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. Continue reading
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NSA: National Security Agency Tracking of U.S. Citizens – “Questionable Practices” from 1960s & 1970s
The National Security Agency’s (NSA) own official history conflated two different constitutionally “questionable practices” involving surveillance of U.S. citizens, according to recent NSA declassifications published today by the National Security Archive, an independent research organization based at The George Washington University. Continue reading
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China’s Cyberspying Is ‘on a Scale No One Imagined’–if You Pretend NSA Doesn’t Exist
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… Continue reading
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Britain’s GCHQ Domestic Spying Apparatus to be granted Greater Surveillance Powers after Paris Attacks By Steven MacMillan
Following the tragic events in Paris, David Cameron is meeting with security heads to potentially grant the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) even greater spying powers. In a disgusting (yet predictable) move by Cameron and fellow Western leaders, these latest attacks are being used as a justification for illegal GCHQ and National Security Agency (NSA) spying,… Continue reading
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United Nations report: US, UK surveillance programs violate international law By Thomas Gaist
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. Continue reading
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What Exactly Are the Spy Agencies Actually DOING with their Bag of Dirty Tricks?
Newly-released documents from Edward Snowden show that the British spy agency GCHQ has developed numerous offensive digital tools. Continue reading
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British government rushes through emergency surveillance legislation By Richard Tyler
The UK coalition government, with support from the opposition Labour Party, is rushing through emergency legislation maintaining broad surveillance powers ruled unlawful by the European Court of Justice. Continue reading
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NSA’s Retention of Intimate Details and Photos of Innocent Americans Which are Admittedly “USELESS” for National Security Shows Malintent
So why does the NSA retain these intimate – but wholly irrelevant – details and images of innocent Americans? In other words, even if they were – as the NSA claims – accidentally collected, why on earth is the NSA keeping them? According to one of the co-authors of the Washington Post story – Ashkan… Continue reading
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Station Chief Ousted as CIA Spies Found in German Parliament and Spy Agency By Dave Lindorff
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. Continue reading
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Airport security agency bans powerless electronic devices on flights to US By Thomas Gaist
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… Continue reading
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