surveillance
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Spy Agencies Work On Psychologically Profiling Everyone
Newly-released documents from Edward Snowden show that the NSA and other spy agencies are tracking people’s psychological and lifestyle traits such as sexual preference, extroversion-versus-introversion, and whether people are leaders or followers. Continue reading
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UK police demand Channel 4 hand over whistle-blower’s footage By Robert Stevens
British police have stepped up their efforts to seize material from the Channel 4 TV station relating to their broadcasting of revelations provided by former UK intelligence operative and whistle-blower Peter Francis. In recent years Francis has provided material to Channel 4 and the Guardian newspaper revealing that Britain’s intelligence services and police have organised… Continue reading
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The “Top 10” Surveillance Lies Edward Snowden’s Leaks Shed “Heat and Light” Upon By Lauren Harper
Despite stating he was “not going to dwell on Mr. Snowden’s actions or motivations,” the President did criticize Snowden’s “sensational” disclosures for “shedding more heat than light.” What the President did not say was that these surveillance reforms would never even have been contemplated without the Snowden revelations. In fact, these leaks did not just… Continue reading
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The Strategic Consequences of Edward Snowden’s Revelations (I) By Dmitriy Sedov
In the final days of last year, the former U.S. National Security Agency contractor addressed the international community in a televised speech in order to once again point out the seriousness of the problem. In his speech Snowden referred to George Orwell’s novel ‘1984’, saying that the means of monitoring people described by Orwell (the… Continue reading
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TAO: The NSA’s Band of Technology Criminals By Alfredo Lopez
The TAO unit, founded in 1997 and now comprised of an estimated 1,000 technologists and support staff in a half dozen offices nationwide, attacks highly selective and well-protected targets. It steals data, conducts on-line denial of service and other attacks against computers and servers in other countries (including government servers and websites), sneaks into offices… Continue reading
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American and British Spy Agencies Have INTENTIONALLY Weakened Security for Many Decades
Norway’s largest newspaper (Aftenposten) reports today that British spies pressured the developers of cellphone standards in the 1980s to intentionally weaken the cellphone’s encryption. In other words, hackers can break into cellphone calls much more easily because the British spies intentionally made the encryption 1,000 times weaker than it otherwise would have been. Continue reading
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Edward Snowden: Power, Privacy and the Public Good By Colin Todhunter
Since 1993, Channel 4 in Britain has broadcast an ‘alternative’ Christmas message, sometimes humorous, at other times serious. Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was given the opportunity to convey his message in 2008. This year, it was the turn of former National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden. Continue reading
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Video: Snowden’s New Year Message
UK’s Channel 4 News always broadcast an ‘alternative’ message on Christmas Day, an alternative that is to the Queen’s Speech. This year, it’s Edward Snowden. Continue reading
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US: The Monitoring of Our Phone Calls? Government Spooks May Be Listening
The American government is in fact collecting and storing virtually every phone call, purchases, email, text message, internet searches, social media communications, health information, employment history, travel and student records, and virtually all other information of every American. Continue reading
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Former Top NSA Official: “We Are Now In A Police State”
32-year NSA Veteran Who Created Mass Surveillance System Says Government Use of Data Gathered Through Spying “Is a Totalitarian Process” Continue reading
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Amnesty to sue UK intelligence over intercepted emails, phone calls
Human rights organization Amnesty International has declared it will take legal action against British security services. Amnesty claims its calls have been intercepted by UK intelligence agencies. The group has issued a claim at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) saying that the alleged actions by UK intelligence would be in breach of article 8 (right… Continue reading
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NSA gathering 5 billion records a day on cellphone locations around the world
The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world, according to top-secret documents and interviews with US intelligence officials, enabling the agency to track the movements of individuals — and map their relationships — in ways that would have been previously unimaginable. Continue reading
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What does the NHS’s new IT plan really want to extract from us? By Jane Fae Ozimek
The theory behind care.data is straightforward enough. Data from all (non-dissenting) UK patients is to be lodged in a central database, from where it may be used for admin purposes, for statistical analysis by the NHS or sold on to select research companies. Continue reading
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NSA strategy document envisions unrestrained global surveillance By Tom Carter
A top secret National Security Administration (NSA) strategy document leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden envisions spying on “anyone, anytime, anywhere,” free from all legal restraints, and radical expansions in the NSA’s activities in the period of 2012-2016. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 