Homeland Security spends millions for ‘biosurveillance’ of social networks Published: 16 November, 2012, 01:22 U.S. Department of Homeland Security analysts work at the National Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) located just outside Washington in Arlington, Virginia (Reuters/Hyungwon Kang) The … Continue reading
United Nations report calls for Internet surveillance, saying lack of “internationally agreed framework for retention of data” is a problem, as are open Wi-Fi networks in airports, cafes, and libraries. by Declan McCullagh October 22, 2012 1:18 PM PDT … Continue reading
A Look Inside Ex-Top-Secret Database Centre If you’re looking for the beating heart of the digital age — a physical location where the scope, grandeur, and geekiness of the kingdom of bits become manifest—you could do a lot worse than … Continue reading
NOTICE OF MOTION FOR LEAVE TO APPEAL Legal Action Update : Motion to BC Court of Appeal David Aaron, lawyer for Citizens for Safe Technology Society, has now filed Motion to BC Court of Appeal regarding the wireless function of … Continue reading
Bureaucrats risk national security breaches Illustration Top Secret Compromised by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times By Lori Handrahan Friday, August 10, 2012 Allen W. Dulles, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) wrote in “The Craft of Intelligence,” … Continue reading
Federal investigators viewed the Facebook profile of an alleged gangster in the Bronx by asking his informant “friend” to show it to them. A judge ruled this was not unconstitutional because Facebook users can’t control what other people do with … Continue reading
Obama considering executive order for infrastructure protection Published 13 August 2012 President Barack Obama is exploring whether to issue an executive order to protect the U.S. critical computer infrastructure from cyber attacks; White House sources say an executive order … Continue reading
Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with the late Steve Jobs, predicted “horrible problems” in the coming years as cloud-based computing takes hold. Wozniak, 61, was the star turn at the penultimate performance in Washington of The Agony and the Ecstasy … Continue reading
A teenager insulted a public figure on twitter. Then he got arrested. Why? Because in the U.K., it’s a “criminal offense” to tweet messages that are considered “menacing, offensive, or indecent.” Via The Independent: A 17-year-old boy has been arrested … Continue reading
Twitter had suspended the account of a journalist for posting the email address of an NBC executive in a series of tweets critical of the network’s coverage of the 2012 London Olympics Games. Now, it’s been revealed that Twitter itself took … Continue reading
The Internet should be adapted to allow for oversight by the National Security Agency, the organization’s boss says. Tom Simonite Friday, July 27, 2012
Neustar is Spying on You
Facebook and other social platforms are watching users’ chats for criminal activity and notifying police if any suspicious behavior is detected, according to a report. The screening process begins with scanning software that monitors chats for words or phrases that … Continue reading
Samsung’s 2012 top-of-the-line plasmas and LED HDTVs offer new features never before available within a television including a built-in, internally wired HD camera, twin microphones, face tracking and speech recognition. While these features give you unprecedented control over an HDTV, … Continue reading
NSA Whistleblower on Surveillance Society
Three NSA Whistleblowers Back EFF’s Lawsuit Over Government’s Massive Spying Program EFF Asks Court to Reject Stale State Secret Arguments So Case Can Proceed San Francisco – Three whistleblowers – all former employees of the National Security Agency (NSA) – … Continue reading
By Pete Norman, Sky News Online Sixty million euro has been stolen from bank accounts in a massive cyber bank raid after fraudsters raided dozens of financial institutions around the world. According to a joint report by software security firm … Continue reading
It’s bad enough when you run a search company in an increasingly social world. It’s worse when anti-trust regulators say you have unfairly and illegally used your dominance in search to promote your own products over those of competitors. Now … Continue reading
Details of internet use in the UK will have to be stored for a year to allow police and intelligence services to access it, under government plans. Records will include people’s activity on social network sites, webmail, internet phone calls … Continue reading
The United Nations is considering a new Internet tax targeting the largest Web content providers, including Google, Facebook, Apple, and Netflix, that could cripple their ability to reach users in developing nations. The European proposal, offered for debate at a … Continue reading
Via Junkscience.com, comes this worrisome editorial from the Washington Times. The new world order invades your computer Imagine if everything you did online was subject to monitoring and control by the United Nations. Powerful authoritarian states, including China and Russia, … Continue reading
House lawmakers will consider an international proposal next week to give the United Nations more control over the Internet. The proposal is backed by China, Russia, Brazil, India and other UN members, and would give the UN’s International Telecommunication Union … Continue reading
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