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November 4, 2013

Statewatch News Online, 4 November 2013 (19/13): Metropolitan police detained David Miranda for promoting ‘political’ causes

4 November 2013 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org Continue reading

Europe, Statewatch, UK

EU, NSA, police, surveillance
November 3, 2013

Police State UK: New threats against the Guardian newspaper and Snowden in Westminster debate By Chris Marsden

Tthe [parliamentary] debate sponsored by three MPs underscored the degree to which all three main parties are intent on suppressing evidence of mass surveillance by the US National Security Agency and the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). The debate—called by Julian Huppert of the Liberal Democrats, Conservative Dominic Raab, and the Labour Party’s Tom Watson—renewed… Continue reading

UK

Chris Marsden, d-notice, edward snowden, GCHQ, intelligence, newspapers, Prime Minister, security, spying, surveillance, the guardian, WSWS
November 2, 2013

Police State UK: Kick starting a movement against mass surveillance By Anthony Barnett

We are sleepwalking into despotism. Especially here in Britain. The fact of the nascent despotism is obvious. The UK state is developing systems of total surveillance to collect the metadata that maps the pattern of everyone’s relationships, movements, reading and communications. At the same time it is creating secret courts that will protect its use… Continue reading

Events, UK

culture, GCHQ, metadata, MI5, security, surveillance, the state
November 2, 2013

Police State UK: Britain’s GCHQ shepherding mass surveillance operations throughout Europe

British intelligence agency GCHQ has helped counterpart entities in France, Germany, Spain, and Sweden develop methods of mass surveillance of internet and phone traffic in the last five years, a new report reveals. Continue reading

UK

Europe, GCHQ, Germany, intelligence, IP, MI5, NSA, RT, snowden, Spain, surveillance
October 28, 2013

Statewatch News Online, 28 October 2013 (18/13): full background coverage on EU-UK-USA Data Surveillance

28 October 2013 — Statewatch News Online, 28 October 2013 (18/13) Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org Continue reading

Europe, Statewatch

EU, GCHQ, intelligence, NSA, surveillance
October 28, 2013

As Europe Erupts Over US Spying, NSA Chief Says Government Must Stop Media By Glenn Greenwald

The most under-discussed aspect of the NSA story has long been its international scope. That all changed this week as both Germany and France exploded with anger over new revelations about pervasive NSAsurveillance on their population and democratically elected leaders. Continue reading

UK, USA

Europe, GCHQ, Glenn Greenwald, Government, NSA, press freedom, rights, snowden, spying, surveillance
October 27, 2013

Statewatch News Online, 28 October 2013 (17/13): EU rules on maritime rescue: Member States quibble while migrants drown

28 October 2013 — Statewatch News Online, 28 October 2013 (17/13) Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org EU “SEARCH & RESCUE Continue reading

Europe, Statewatch

CIA, EU, migrants, surveillance
October 26, 2013

Police State UK: ‘Press handling with talking heads’: Snowden files reveal enormous GCHQ efforts to escape legal challenge

The UK’s spy agency GCHQ was doing whatever it could to avoid igniting a “damaging public debate” and a subsequent possibility of a legal threat over its surveillance practices and cooperation with telecoms, new Snowden papers reveal. Continue reading

UK

GCHQ, Government, Home Office, intelligence, MI5, MI6, NSA, PR, privacy, RT, snowden, surveillance
October 19, 2013

Police State UK: Guardian faces parliamentary investigation over Snowden revelations By Chris Marsden

Britain’s Guardian newspaper is facing an investigation by at least one parliamentary committee, in line with demands made by Prime Minister David Cameron, concerning the exposures of Edward Snowden, the whistleblower from America’s National Security Agency (NSA). Continue reading

Media, UK

Chris Marsden, database state, GCHQ, Home Affairs, NSA, parliament, police, security, snowden, surveillance, the guardian, WSWS
October 19, 2013

How to Protect Ourselves on Social Networks and from Data Collection Systems of Governments and Corporations

orporations are taking advantage of these times by changing their privacy policies so that they can track us, use us, and sell us whatever their algorithms decide that we need or want based on data they have acquired about our movements, contacts, desires, fantasies, or kinks. Governments on the other hand are using our data… Continue reading

National Security State

EFF, Internet, mining, NSA, privacy, security, surveillance, travel
October 17, 2013

“Intelligence Led Surveillance” and Britain’s Police State: The Manufacture of “Mass Surveillance by Consent” By Charles Farrier

In the dark ages known as the twentieth century, mass surveillance of entire populations was a sport practised only by elitist totalitarian states . Those unlucky enough to live in what was then termed a “free country”, had to sit on the sidelines and simply imagine what it was like to be subject to constant… Continue reading

UK

CCTV, crime, data mining, database state, GCHQ, Global Research, Home Office, intelligence, liberties, MI5, police, privacy, special branch, surveillance
October 16, 2013

NSA harvesting hundreds of millions of personal email contact lists – report

The National Security Agency is logging hundreds of millions of email and instant messaging contacts belonging to Americans and others around the world, according to a report based on documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Continue reading

USA

data mining, database state, intelligence, Microsoft, National Security Agency, NSA, privacy, RT, snowden, surveillance, Yahoo
October 16, 2013

Mining your information for big brother By Pratap Chatterjee

Big Bro is watching you. Inside your mobile phone and hidden behind your web browser are little known software products marketed by contractors to the government that can follow you around anywhere. No longer the wide-eyed fantasies of conspiracy theorists, these technologies are routinely installed in all of our data devices by companies that sell… Continue reading

Internet, USA

Asia, database state, FBI, intelligence, NSA, privacy, Raytheon, security, surveillance, Times Online, Twitter
October 14, 2013

Statewatch News Online, 14 October 2013 (16/13): EU-USA Data Surveillance

14 October 2013 — Statewatch – e-mail: office@statewatch.org e-mail on EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE follow later : See Observatory: http://www.statewatch.org/eu-usa-data-surveillance.htm 1. EU: SEARCH & RESCUE AT SEA: WILL ALL EU MEMBER STATES TAKE RESPONSIBILITY? Continue reading

Europe, Statewatch

Asylum, CIA, data mining, database state, EU, privacy, surveillance
October 12, 2013

Luxembourg NSA dragnet hauls in Skype for investigation – report

Once heralded as a communication tool free from eavesdropping, Skype is now reportedly under scrutiny for secretly and voluntarily handing over personal data on users to government agencies. Continue reading

Internet, Liberties

data mining, database state, intelligence, Microsoft, New York, NSA, prism, privacy, RT, snowden, surveillance
October 12, 2013

Top Websites Secretly Track Your Device Fingerprint

Websites that really want to track you without permission have a way. A new report shows a surprising number of top Internet websites using so-called “device fingerprints” to secretly track visitors—a method that avoids legal limits on the use of cookies and also ignores the Do Not Track HTTP header. Continue reading

Internet, National Security State

anonymous, Belgium, data mining, database state, Internet, mobile phones, New York, privacy, surveillance, World Wide Web, York University
September 24, 2013

The Government Is Spying On Us Through Our Computers, Phones, Cars, Buses, Streetlights, At Airports And On The Street, Via Mobile Scanners And Drones, Through Our Smart Meters, And In Many Other Ways

Even now – after all of the revelations by Edward Snowden and other whistleblowers – spying apologists say that the reports are “exaggerated” or “overblown”, and that the government only spies on potential bad guys. In reality, the government is spying on everyone’s digital and old-fashioned communications. Continue reading

USA

database state, DHS, drones, FBI, Government, Internet, land, NSA, privacy, rights, security, spying, surveillance
September 23, 2013

New Statewatch Journal 23 September 2013: Informants, spies and subversion

The intention is not to sort the “good” grasses from the “bad” but rather to interrogate the relationship between states and informers and better understand the role that they play not just in the pursuit of security and criminal justice, but state subversion and the pursuit of profit.” Continue reading

Europe, Spies-R-Us, Statewatch

database state, Journal, justice, liberties, police, privacy, security, surveillance, the state
September 6, 2013

With The NSA, The GCHQ, The FRA Planting Crypto Backdoors In Infrastructure, They Are Now The Enemy Of All Mankind

The security services of the US, UK, and Sweden have been actively working to plant backdoors into most commercial cryptography software. While intended to use for wiretapping business secrets, medical journals and bank transactions, those backdoors are also there for any other adversary. This is effectively a declaration of war from the security services against… Continue reading

National Security State

bank, database state, EU, GCHQ, NSA, security, surveillance, Sweden
September 4, 2013

The Snowden Affair: Web Resource Documents the Latest Firestorm over the National Security Agency

Recent press disclosures about National Security Agency (NSA) electronic surveillance activities — relying on documents provided by Edward Snowden — have sparked one of the most significant controversies in the history of the U.S. Intelligence Community. Today, the nongovernmental National Security Archive at The George Washington University posts a compilation of over 125 documents –… Continue reading

National Security Archive

extradition, George Washington, history, NSA, security, snowden, surveillance, White House

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