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Posts Tagged spying
Chinese Communists Have Infiltrated Western Companies and Governments
From The Federalist:
Based on this database, The Australian also disclosed the names of several companies that have employed CCP members, including Boeing, Volkswagen, Qualcomm, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Deutsche Bank, and J.P. Morgan. Further, as seen via the database, numerous CCP members have infiltrated Australian, American, and United Kingdom consulates in Shanghai, China.
aerospace, banking, ccp, china, chinese communist party, espionage, freedom, liberty, spies, spying, switzerland, technology, western civilization
Green Beret Charged With Spying From ’96 to 2011
From The Washington Examiner:
A former member of the U.S. Army Special Forces was arrested Friday on charges of conspiring with Russian intelligence operatives to provide them with classified information that could harm U.S. national security, including details about his unit deployed on the Russian border.
espionage, green beret, gru, national security, russia, spying
The Corporate Surveillance State
From The Guardian:
Imagine a government with the power to spy on any critic, reporter or activist. A state with the capacity to extort or silence by tracking not just a person’s movements but her conversations, contacts, photos, notes, emails … the entire content of one’s digital life.
This may sound like something from dystopian fiction, but such targeted surveillance is a grim reality of the digital age. It is increasingly a tool of repressive governments to stifle debate, criticism and journalism. Over and over, researchers and journalists have been uncovering evidence of governments, with the help of private companies, inserting malware through surreptitious means into the smartphones, laptops and other devices belonging to people they are seeking to suppress: people who play essential roles in democratic life, facilitating the public’s right to information.
communications, government spying, internet, phones, spying, surveillance, technology
Sign Petition To Stop Warrantless Spying
From EFF:
The law behind the NSA’s sweeping Internet surveillance programs—Section 702, as enacted by the FISA Amendments Act—is set to expire at the end of 2017. Built-in expiration dates like this force lawmakers to review, debate, and update wide-reaching surveillance laws that impact their constituents’ privacy.
The looming Section 702 sunset gives Congress a chance to rein in the warrantless surveillance of millions of innocent people’s online communications. But some have another, much more dangerous idea.
Sen. Tom Cotton and a group of other Senate Republicans recently introduced a bill (S. 1297) that would not only reauthorize Section 702 without making much-needed changes, but it would also make the law permanent, effectively forfeiting lawmakers’ responsibility to periodically reexamine Section 702 and the impact it has on their constituents.
It would be unacceptable for Congress to ignore our privacy concerns and hand off their obligation to review surveillance law.
Sign our petition and tell Congress to oppose S. 1297.
eff, electronic frontier foundation, internet, NSA, spying, technology, warrantless spying
Your Cell Phone Is Spying On You And It’s Great (or is it?)
Posted by Brian in News, Tech, Threat Watch on 10/Nov/2015 07:00
From The CATO Institute:
apple, audio, bruce schneier, cato institute, cell phone, google, iPhone, NSA, podcast, spying, surveillance, tracking
British Government Changes Law To Allow Themselves To Break Into Computers
From Hacker News:
The UK Government has quietly changed the Anti-Hacking Laws quietly that exempt GCHQ, police, and other electronic intelligence agencies from criminal prosecution for hacking into computers and mobile phones and carrying out its controversial surveillance practices.The details of the changes were disclosed at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, which is currently hearing a challenge to the legality of computer hacking by UK law enforcement and its intelligence agencies.
computers, gchq, intelligence, internet, spying, surveillance, UK, uk government
Surveillance Planes Tracked Over Baltimore
Posted by Brian in Law, News, Threat Watch on 7/May/2015 15:29
From The Washington Post:
Discovery of the flights — which involved at least two airplanes and the assistance of the FBI — has prompted the American Civil Liberties Union to demand answers about the legal authority for the operations and the reach of the technology used. Planes armed with the latest surveillance systems canmonitor larger areas than police helicopters and stay overhead longer, raising novel civil liberties issues that have so far gotten little scrutiny from courts.
baltimore, civil liberties, domestic surveillance, FBI, First Amendment, maryland, spying, technology
Surveillance State Repeal Act Introduced In House
Posted by Brian in Law, News, Threat Watch on 27/Mar/2015 12:55
From FreedomWorks:
That’s why it’s so refreshing to see a bill like the Surveillance State Repeal Act. It’s bold and effective. Specifically, here is what the bill would do:
- Repeals the Patriot Act (which contains the provision that allows for the bulk collection of metadata from U.S. citizens).
- Repeals the FISA Amendments Act (which contains provisions allowing for the government to monitor emails).
- It would extend judges’ terms on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and technical and legal experts to advise on technical issues raised during proceedings.
- Mandate that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) regularly monitor such domestic surveillance programs for compliance with the law and issue an annual report.
- Ban the federal government from mandating that the manufacturer of an electronic device must install spy software.
- Gives people a proper channel to report illegal activity in their department.
- Says that no information related to a U.S. person may be acquired without a valid warrant based on probable cause—including under Executive Order 12333.
- Retains tools that are useful to law enforcement such as not requiring a new warrant if the suspect switches devices in an attempt to break surveillance.
- Protects intelligence collection practices involving foreign targets for the purpose of investigating weapons of mass destruction.
domestic spying, email, fourth amendment, house of representatives, internet, NSA, patriot act, phone calls, spying, surviellance state
Your Apps Are Following You
From The Wall Street Journal:
Computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University concluded that a dozen or so popular Android apps collected device location – GPS coordinates accurate to within 50 meters – an average 6,200 times, or roughly every three minutes, per participant over a two-week study period.
The researchers recruited 23 users of Android version 4.3 from Craigslist and the Carnegie Mellon student body. Participants were allowed to use their own choice of apps after installing software that noted app requests for a variety of personal information; not only location but also contacts, call logs, calendar entries, and camera output. They weren’t told the purpose of the study and were screened to weed out people who had a technical background or strong views about privacy.
andriod, google, privacy, security, Smartphones, spying, surveillance, technology
How To Prevent The Government From Spying On Your Cellphone
Posted by Brian in Comms, News, Threat Watch on 3/Mar/2015 07:00
From Democracy Now:
american civil liberties union, cellphone, communications, domestic surveillance, FBI, First Amendment, fourth amendment, NSA, signal, spying, video
Sharyl Attkisson Sues DOJ For $35 Million
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 15/Jan/2015 07:00
From Fox News:
In a series of legal filings that seek $35 million in damages, Attkisson alleges that three separate computer forensic exams showed that hackers used sophisticated methods to surreptitiously monitor her work between 2011 and 2013.
“I just think it’s important to send a message that people shouldn’t be victimized and throw up their hands and think there’s nothing they can do and they’re powerless,” Attkisson said in an interview.
doj, domestic surveillance, Fast and Furious, fourth amendment, hacking, sharyl attkisson, spying
USA Freedom Act
Posted by Brian in Law, News, Threat Watch on 18/Nov/2014 14:06
The EFF gives a rundown of the bill and why it is important:
The USA Freedom Act is a bill that was first proposedlast year by Senator Patrick Leahy and Representative Jim Sensenbrenner. The original version of the bill limited the NSA’s call records collection program, introduced aspecial advocate into the secretive court overseeing the spying, mandated much needed transparency requirements, and included significant reform of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act (FISAA), the law used to collect Americans’ communications in bulk.
communications, electronic frontier foundation, freedom act, internet, national security administration, NSA, patriot act, phone calls, spying, surveillance, wire tapping
MQ-4C Triton in Flight Testing Over U.S.
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 22/Sep/2014 12:17
From ArsTechnica:
The drone is just the first piece in what the Navy calls Broad Area Maritime Surveillance, or BAMS. The MQ-4C Triton will be used to keep tabs on a wide area using “radar, infrared sensors and advanced cameras to provide full-motion video and photographs to the military,†according to The Washington Post. Eventually, a network of these drones could be deployed to fly around the world and provide 24-hour, 7-day-a-week coverage of a given area.
New DARPA Drone Has 1.8 Billion Pixel Camera
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 1/Sep/2014 07:00
darpa, domestic surveillance, drone, spying, surviellance state, video
FREEDOM Act To Reign In NSA Spying
Posted by Brian in Law, News, Threat Watch on 5/Aug/2014 16:19
From The EFF:
The new Senate version of the USA FREEDOM Act would:
- End the NSA’s illegal collection of millions of Americans’ telephone records by amending one of the worst provisions of the PATRIOT Act, Section 215
- Create a panel of special advocates that can argue for privacy and civil liberties in front of the FISA Court, the secret court that approves the NSA’s surveillance plans
- Provide new reporting requirements so that the NSA is forced to tell us how many people are actually being surveilled under its programs, including the program that allows the NSA to see the contents of Americans’ communications without a warrant
Support Senate Bill 2685 by emailing your members of congress here.
congress, domestic surveillance, freedom act, national security administration, NSA, patriot act, spying
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