surveillance
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The Omnipresent Surveillance State: Orwell’s 1984 Is No Longer Fiction By John W. Whitehead
Tread cautiously: the fiction of George Orwell has become an operation manual for the omnipresent, modern-day surveillance state. Continue reading
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The Trust Project: Big Media and Silicon Valley’s Weaponized Algorithms Silence Dissent by Whitney Webb
Given the Trust Project’s rich-get-richer impact on the online news landscape, it is not surprising to find that it is funded by a confluence of tech oligarchs and powerful forces with a clear stake in controlling the flow of news. Continue reading
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‘Unlimited reach, no safeguards’: Snowden warns of greatest social control scheme in history
The US government has a tendency to hijack and weaponize revolutionary innovations, Edward Snowden said, noting that the natural human desire to communicate with others is now being exploited on an unprecedented scale. Continue reading
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“Technotyranny”: The Iron-Fisted Authoritarianism of the Surveillance State By John W. Whitehead
Twenty years after the Wachowskis’ iconic 1999 film, The Matrix, introduced us to a futuristic world in which humans exist in a computer-simulated non-reality powered by authoritarian machines—a world where the choice between existing in a denial-ridden virtual dream-state or facing up to the harsh, difficult realities of life comes down to a red pill… Continue reading
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Britain: The Database State
By TruePublica: Britain is a surveillance state, the worst in the democratic West. In a short period of time, it has amassed a rather sordid history of citizen surveillance – and it continues to be unlawful. Last September’s damning judgement of British security operations against its own people saw the European Court of Human Rights… Continue reading
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New Zealand PM leads global Internet censorship campaign By Tom Peters
The so-called “ Christchurch Call ” summit in Paris on Wednesday, led by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and French President Emmanuel Macron, marked a significant escalation of the drive by governments throughout the world to censor the Internet. Continue reading
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France hosts “Christchurch call” summit to intensify internet censorship By Will Morrow
The international “Christchurch call” summit held Wednesday in Paris, hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinta Ardern, marked a further step in the drive by the world’s capitalist governments and the corporate technology giants to censor social media and muzzle rising social opposition in the working class and among young… Continue reading
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Open Rights Group: Let’s meet up in London next week
Join us in London on Tuesday 21 May for a special election week event spotlighting the nexus between data and democracy. Continue reading
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WhatsApp claims spyware attack has ‘all hallmarks’ of Israeli company that aides govt surveillance
A WhatsApp spyware attack that targeted human rights activists has clear links to a company known to help governments snoop, the messaging app firm said in a statement. Israeli firm NSO is accused of being behind the exploit. Continue reading
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Government forced to delete millions of illegal citizen biometric voiceprints
Last year, TruePublica published an article about how the British government were now going ‘full Orwellian‘ in their attempt to build a national biometric database. The opening line to the article was – “We said that the government would eventually take the biometric data of every single citizen living in Britain and use it for… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 13 May 2019 (12/19)
13 May 2019 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2019/may/email-may-13-19.pdf Please to support our work STATEWATCH NEWS 1. Mytilene, Greece: Peaceful demonstration and the human right to freedom of assembly prevails 2. EU: Frontex gets ready to deploy to the Balkans 3. EU: Construction of the European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) 4. EU criminal Continue reading
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The Open Rights Group 2019 Lineup
We are delighted to announce new speakers for our ORGCon 2019 lineup. If you’re yet to get your early bird ticket it isn’t too late – they’re on sale now! Continue reading
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The Government’s Secret Hostile Environment Database
Back in July 2011, David Cameron made a speech about transparency. He told the electorate of Britain that a new dawn of government transparency had arrived and the release of official data would change the way government delivered public services. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 29 April 2019 (10/19)
29 April 2019 — Statewatch Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2019/apr/email-29-april.pdf Please to support our work STATEWATCH NEWS 1. EU: Police press ahead with efforts to automate cross-border information-sharing 2. EU: National security and fundamental rights: problems with definitions and the rule of law 3. SPAIN: Ethnic profiling in Catalonia: for every police identity check on a Continue reading
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Julian Assange Exposed the Crimes of Powerful Actors, Including Israel A Review By Alison Weir
Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange is incarcerated in a UK prison that has been called “Britain’s Guantanamo.” His crime was exposing actions the US government, the media, the Democratic–Clinton machine, Israel, and others wanted kept hidden, including war crimes and torture. Continue reading
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The case against me will collapse into nothing: Ola Bini
In a note given to his parents who visited him at El Inca prison, Ecuador, software developer and activist Ola Bini said there was no substance to his case. He also condemned the war on knowledge being waged by the leaders of the world Continue reading
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EU: ‘Fingerprinting Regulation’ approved now we need your help to monitor its implementation
On 4 April the European Parliament voted in favour of a Regulation that introduces a requirement for the mandatory fingerprinting of all national identity card holders in the EU – but this is not the end of the story, because now the measures will be implemented by national governments. We need your support to continue… Continue reading
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Transportation Security Agency as Government Media ‘Watchdog’ By Dave Lindorff
Sometimes you have to leave the United States to understand how far this country has evolved towards becoming a police state. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 18 March 2019 (07/19)
18 March 2019 — Statewatch.org Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2019/mar/email-18-mar.pdf Please to support our work STATEWATCH NEWS 1. EU: Open letter to MEPs: oppose mandatory fingerprinting for national identity cards 2. EU: Security Union: new measures introduce biometric identity cards and a new database 3. ECHR: Three judgments: detention of and lack of care for unaccompanied Continue reading
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