Privacy

Newsletter: End The Security State

February 20, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Black Panthers, Capitalism, Inequality, Infilitration, NSA, Occupy, Plutocracy, Privacy, spying

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. The conflict between democracy and state repression, often claimed as necessary to protect our safety and security, has moved the United States consistently toward a greater national security state that has become inconsistent with people’s privacy and freedom; as well as their ability to exercise First Amendment protected political activities. The depth of surveillance – including infiltration of political movements, cameras to enforce traffic laws and monitor activities almost everywhere in populated areas, aerial surveillance of neighborhoods and protests by helicopters, drones and airplanes and digital spying, have created a pervasive surveillance apparatus that undermines privacy, political activity and communication. We cannot have a real democracy with this level of surveillance.

Secret Memo Details U.S.’s Broader Strategy To Crack Phones

February 20, 2016 Michael Riley and Jordan Robertson, www.bloomberg.com Resist! Apple, FBI, Privacy, Surveillance

By Michael Riley and Jordan Robertson for Bloomberg Business - Silicon Valley celebrated last fall when the White House revealed it would not seek legislation forcing technology makers to install “backdoors” in their software -- secret listening posts where investigators could pierce the veil of secrecy on users’ encrypted data, from text messages to video chats. But while the companies may have thought that was the final word, in fact the government was working on a Plan B. In a secret meeting convened by the White House around Thanksgiving, senior national security officials ordered agencies across the U.S. government to find ways to counter encryption software...

Privacy Supporters Rally At Apple Store Over iPhone Order

February 20, 2016 Resist! Apple, FBI, Hacking, Privacy, Surveillance

By Elizabeth Weise for USA Today - SAN FRANCISCO — Privacy and security supporters held a rally outside Apple’s San Francisco store Wednesday to protest the U.S. government's demand that Apple give the FBI a backdoor to hack into an iPhone recovered from Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the attackers in the December San Bernardino, Calif., shooting that killed 14 people. “We want to show Apple that people are standing with them,” said Cindy Cohn, executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based cyber-liberties group.

Stratfor In Hiding Due To Protests?

January 15, 2016 Kit O'Connell, www.mintpressnews.com Resist! Jeremy Hammond, Privacy, spying, Stratfor, Whistleblowers

By Kit O'Connell for Mint Press News - AUSTIN, Texas — In what’s become an annual tradition, activists gathered in downtown Austin on Friday to celebrate the birthday of a political prisoner and hacktivist nearly forgotten and ignored by the mainstream media: Jeremy Hammond. In 2012, Hammond, along with other members of the Anonymous-associated group Lulzsec, hacked millions of emails from the servers of the Strategic Forecasting, also known as Stratfor, a private intelligence corporation located in the city, and leaked them to WikiLeaks, where they became known as the “Global Intelligence Files.”

100,000 NYC School Children Face Airport-Style Security Every Day

January 14, 2016 Cecilia Reyes, www.propublica.org Educate! New York City (NYC), Privacy, Schools, Students

By Cecilia Reyes for Pro Publica and WNYC - On the coldest morning New York City has seen this winter, a stream of teenage students hit a bottleneck at the front of a Brooklyn school building. They shed their jackets, gloves and belts, shivering as they wait to pass through a metal detector and send their backpacks through an x-ray machine. School safety agents stand nearby, poised to step in if the alarm bleats. It’s an everyday occurrence for more than 100,000 middle and high school students across the city. On this morning, as on every school day, senior Justin Feldeo prepares to be pulled aside for separate screening by a hand wand. Feldeo is studying to be a firefighter and the boots he wears for class trigger the metal detectors.

People Demand Debate On Controversial Anti-Terror Law

January 14, 2016 Jessica Murphy, www.theguardian.com Resist! Canada, Privacy, Surveillance

By Jessica Murphy for The Guardian - Opponents of Canada’s sweeping new anti-terror law are planning a major campaign to pressure the Liberal government to launch broad public consultations before overhauling the controversial legislation. Civil society groups, legal scholars and labour unions are calling on the government to hold a public debate on reforms for the legislation – known as C-51 – which they say are necessary to protect Canadian civil liberties, freedoms and personal privacy. “We know very little about the government’s plans for C-51, so our hope is they are going to listen to the huge number of Canadians who expressed deep, deep concerns about this bill when it was passed,” British Columbia Civil Liberties Association executive director Josh Paterson says.

NSA Targeted ‘The Two Leading’ Encryption Chips

January 9, 2016 Glenn Greenwald, www.theintercept.com Resist! Encryption, Glenn Greenwald, Internet, NSA, Privacy, Surveillance

By Glenn Greenwald for The Intercept - On September 5, 2013, The Guardian, the New York Times and ProPublica jointly reported — based on documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden — that the National Security Agency had compromised some of the encryption that is most commonly used to secure internet transactions. The NYT explained that NSA “has circumvented or cracked much of the encryption, or digital scrambling, that guards global commerce and banking systems, protects sensitive data like trade secrets and medical records, and automatically secures the emails, web searches, internet chats and phone calls of Americans and others around the world.”

Creepy Online Tracking Companies Fizzle In Face Of Privacy Badger

December 25, 2015 Cooper Quintin, www.eff.org Educate! Online data, Privacy

By Cooper Quintin for EFF. On August 3, EFF, Disconnect and a coalition of four (now five) other partners announced an implementation of “Do Not Track” (DNT) for Web browsing—this new policy standard, coupled with privacy software, will better protect users against sites that try to secretly follow and record their Internet activity. Trackers are blocked, while sites that adopt the DNT policy and respect users' privacy have their ads unblocked. This combination of deterrent and reward provides an incentive for advertisers and data collection companies to respect a user’s choice not to be tracked online, and encourages them to develop advertising technologies that do the same. The EFF and Disconnect’s partners in this launch are the innovative publishing site Medium, major analytics service Mixpanel, popular ad- and tracker-blocking extension AdBlock, and private search engine DuckDuckGo. Since the launch, the ad-tech company Adzerk has also joined. New partners have already signed up and will be announced in early 2016.

Finally! DOJ Reverses Course & Requires Warrants For Stingrays!

September 5, 2015 Nate Cardozo, www.eff.org Educate! Privacy, Surveillance, Technology

By Nate Cardozo in The Electronic Frontier Foundation - At long last, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced a slew of much-needed policy changes regarding the use of cell-site simulators. Most importantly, starting today all federal law enforcement agencies—and all state and local agencies working with the federal government—will be required to obtain a search warrant supported by probable cause before they are allowed to use cell-site simulators. EFF welcomes these policy changes as long overdue. Colloquially known as “Stingrays” after Harris Corporation’s brand name for a common model,cell-site simulators masquerade as legitimate cell phone towers, tricking phones nearby into connecting to them. This allows agents to learn the unique identifying number for each phone in the area of the device and to track a phone’s location in real time.

The Dream Of Internet Freedom Doesn’t Have To Die

August 7, 2015 Jennifer Granick, www.justsecurity.org Resist! Cybersecurity, Internet Freedom, Privacy, Surveillance

By Jennifer Granick for Just Security - Today, the dream of Internet Freedom that brought me to my first Def Con is dying. The dream is dying because, for better or for worse, we’ve prioritized things like security, online civility, user interface, and intellectual property interests above freedom and openness. As a result, the Internet is less open and more centralized. It’s more regulated. And increasingly it’s less global, and more divided. These trends: centralization, regulation, and globalization are accelerating. And they will define the future of our communications network, unless something dramatic changes. Let’s take a quick look at just a few of the things likely to happen if these trends continue.

Senate Fails On CISA Before Recess; Grassroots Opposition Grows

August 6, 2015 Staff, http://tumblr.fightforthefuture.org Resist! Cyber Security, Internet, Internet Freedom, Privacy, Surveillance

By Staff for Fight For The Future - Senate leadership had intended to move CISA to a cloture vote yesterday afternoon, but failed to strike a deal as more and more members raised concerns with the bill in the wake of two weeks of intense grassroots action that flooded Senate offices with more than 6.2 million faxes in addition to tens of thousands of emails, phone calls, and tweets. Most of the action came through FaxBigBrother.com a viral web page launched by Fight for the Future with a broad coalition of privacy and civil liberties groups. Senate leadership had intended to move CISA to a cloture vote yesterday afternoon, but failed to strike a deal as more and more members raised concerns with the bill in the wake of two weeks of intense grassroots action that flooded Senate offices with more than 6.2 million faxes in addition to tens of thousands of emails, phone calls, and tweets. Most of the action came through FaxBigBrother.com a viral web page launched by Fight for the Future with a broad coalition of privacy and civil liberties groups. Senate leadership had intended to move CISA to a cloture vote yesterday afternoon, but failed to strike a deal as more and more members raised concerns with the bill in the wake of two weeks of intense grassroots action that flooded Senate offices with more than 6.2 million faxes in addition to tens of thousands of emails, phone calls, and tweets. Most of the action came through FaxBigBrother.com a viral web page launched by Fight for the Future with a broad coalition of privacy and civil liberties groups. “The delay is good news, but Internet users are outraged that Congress is even considering this dangerous and unpopular legislation, and even more outraged at the Web companies who stand to benefit financially from CISA’s sweeping legal immunity who have remained silent, putting all of their users’ privacy at risk,” said Evan Greer, Fight for the Future’s campaign director.

Laura Poitras Sues US Government For Repeated Border Stops

July 15, 2015 Jenna McLaughlin, www.firstlook.org Resist! Law, NSA, Privacy, Surveillance

By Jenna McLaughlin in The Intercept - Over six years, filmmaker Laura Poitras was searched, interrogated and detained more than 50 times at U.S. and foreign airports. When she asked why, U.S. agencies wouldn’t say. Now, after receiving no response to her Freedom of Information Act requests for documents pertaining to her systemic targeting, Poitras is suing the U.S. government. In a complaint filed on Monday afternoon, Poitras demanded that the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence release any and all documentation pertaining to her tracking, targeting and questioning while traveling between 2006 and 2012. “I’m filing this lawsuit because the government uses the U.S. border to bypass the rule of law,” Poitras said in a statement. Poitras co-founded The Intercept with Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill.

What Happens When Policy Is Made By Corporations?

July 12, 2015 Evgeny Morozov, www.theguardian.com Educate! Privacy, Trade, TTIP

By Evgeny Morozov for the Guardian - One overlooked aspect of the emerging legal architecture that they enact is that, barring a Greece-like rebellion from the citizens, Europe will eventually sacrifice its strong and much-cherished commitment to data protection. This protectionist stance – aimed, above all, at protecting citizens from excessive corporate and state intrusion – is increasingly at odds with the “grab everything” mentality of contemporary capitalism. A recent op-ed penned by Carl Bildt, the perennial hawk of Swedish politics and now also chair of the Global Commission on Internet Governance, a thinktank, captures that neoliberal mentality quite accurately. According to Bildt: “Barriers against the free flow of data are, in effect, barriers against trade.” By the same token, building fences around your house is also an offence against capitalism. Who knows what kinds of advertising deals could be made with your data?

6 Tips For Protecting Your Communications From Prying Eyes

June 21, 2015 Julia Angwin, www.propublica.org Educate! Media, Privacy, Surveillance

By Julia Angwin in ProPublica. It's easy to feel hopeless about privacy these days. In the post-Snowden era, we have learned that nearly every form of communication-from emails, phone calls, to text messages – can leave a digital trace that can and likely will be analyzed by commercial data-gatherers and governments. Here are some ways to keep those communications private. While these tips were designed for journalists and confidential sources, they're just as useful for protecting any private communications, such as a conversation between family members, or a confidential business dealing. Some tactics are more difficult than others, but the good news is that not all of them require technical skills. The key is to figure out your communication strategy.

Google Handed Over Journalist’s Data To Wikileaks Grand Jury

June 21, 2015 Kevin Gosztola, www.firedoglake.com Educate! Google, Privacy, Surveillance, Wikileaks

By Kevin Gosztola in FireDogLake. United States - Google released another legal disclosure notice related to the United States government’s ongoing grand jury investigation into WikiLeaks. It informed journalist and technologist Jacob Appelbaum, who previously worked with WikiLeaks, that Google was ordered to provide data from his account. The disclosure suggests the grand jury investigation may have sought Appelbaum’s data because the US government believed data would contain details on WikiLeaks’ publication of State Department cables. Appelbaum has been under investigation because of his connection to WikiLeaks for four to five years.

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