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UK’s GCHQ spy centre seeks new powers to circumvent encryption By Thomas Scripps
The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has proposed that tech companies allow state spies into encrypted chats and calls. The new surveillance measures, known as a “ghost protocol,” would allow a government agent to “sit in” on ostensibly secure private conversations without the knowledge of other participants. This news comes just days after MI5 and GCHQ’s… Continue reading
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Facebook: The global censor
The year 2018 has seen a vast intensification of internet censorship by Google, Facebook and Twitter, transforming them from tools for exchanging information and communicating around the world into massive censorship dragnets for policing what their users say, do and think. Continue reading