Surveillance

Global Surveillance Industry Database Helps Track Big Brother Worldwide

August 3, 2016 Deirdre Fulton, www.commondreams.org Educate! Surveillance

By Deirdre Fulton for Common Dreams - Offering a groundbreaking glimpse of the global surveillance industry—the tools it employs, the extent of its reach, and the accountability it largely evades—human rights watchdog organization Privacy International on Tuesday released a searchable database and accompanying report that track Big Brother worldwide. The initiative "provides much needed information about a secretive industry which has grown to meet government demand for more surveillance power," said Edin Omanovic, research officer at the U.K.-based Privacy International.

Snowden Designs Device To Warn If Your iPhone’s Radios Are Snitching

July 22, 2016 Andy Greenberg, www.wired.com Create! Edward Snowden, Surveillance

By Andy Greenberg for Wired - WHEN EDWARD SNOWDEN met with reporters in a Hong Kong hotel room to spill the NSA’s secrets, he famously asked them put their phones in the fridge to block any radio signals that might be used to silently activate the devices’ microphones or cameras. So it’s fitting that three years later, he’s returned to that smartphone radio surveillance problem. Now Snowden’s attempting to build a solution that’s far more compact than a hotel mini-bar.

Federal Agents Went Undercover To Spy on Anti-Fracking Movement

July 20, 2016 Lee Fang and Steve Horn, www.theintercept.com Resist! Fracking, Surveillance

By Lee Fang and Steve Horn for The Intercept - WHEN MORE THAN 300 protesters assembled in May at the Holiday Inn in Lakewood, Colorado — the venue chosen by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for an auction of oil and gas leases on public lands — several of the demonstrators were in fact undercover agents sent by law enforcement to keep tabs on the demonstration, according to emails obtained by The Intercept. The “Keep it in the Ground” movement, a broad effort to block the development of drilling projects...

Big Brother Is Listening As Well As Watching

July 14, 2016 Taylor Armerding, www.csoonline.com Educate! Mass Surveillance, Surveillance

By Taylor Armerding for CSO - In a world of ubiquitous security cameras, most people know by now that some form of Big Brother – government or private – is watching them. But they are less likely to know that in some areas, he is also listening. While it is not yet widespread, audio surveillance is increasingly being used on parts of urban mass transit systems. That is the bad news, in the view of privacy advocates. But the good news is that public awareness can, at least in some cases, curtail it.

An Internet For Everyone

July 10, 2016 Devin Coldewey, www.techcrunch.com Create! Decentralization, Democracy, Internet Freedom, Monopoly, Surveillance

By Devin Coldewey for Tech Crunch. The imagination is a powerful thing, and what it creates may in fact be powerful beyond our imagining. That was certainly the case with Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web, the creation of which is documented in a new short film, “Foreveryone.net,” which was directed by Jessica Yu and is currently showing at the Seattle International Film Festival. I sat down ahead of the film’s debut with Yu and Berners-Lee, who, in his inimitable manner, held forth on topics from encryption and social media to the need to, as he called it, “re-decentralize the web.” The film traces the story of the web from its prehistory as a twinkle in Berners-Lee’s eye to the various dangers it faces today: surveillance, the loss of net neutrality and an excess of commercialization and centralization.

Bipartisan Coalition Demands Congress End Warrantless Spying

June 7, 2016 Lauren McCauley, www.commondreams.org Resist! Congress, Edward Snowden, Surveillance

By Lauren McCauley for Common Dreams - Three years ago on Monday, the world was shattered by news that the United States was conducting sweeping, warrantless surveillance of people, heads of state, and organizations across the globe. To mark the anniversary of those revelations, brought forth by a then-unknowncontractor working for the National Security Administration (NSA), a coalition of public interest groups have launched a new campaign fighting for the expiration of the law that the government claims authorizes its mass spying.

Snowden Tried To Tell NSA About Surveillance Concerns

June 6, 2016 Jason Leopold, Marcy Wheeler, and Ky Henderson, www.news.vice.com Educate! Edward Snowden, NSA, Surveillance

By Jason Leopold, Marcy Wheeler, and Ky Henderson for Vice News - On the morning of May 29, 2014, an overcast Thursday in Washington, DC, the general counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Robert Litt, wrote an email to high-level officials at the National Security Agency and the White House. The topic: what to do about Edward Snowden. Snowden's leaks had first come to light the previous June, when the Guardian's Glenn Greenwald and the Washington Post's Barton Gellman published stories based on highly classified documents provided to them by the former NSA contractor.

Tomgram: Harwood And Stanley, Policing The Dystopia

May 20, 2016 Matthew Harwood and Jay Stanley, www.tomdispatch.com Educate! Policing, Surveillance, Technology

By Matthew Harwood and Jay Stanley for Tom Dispatch - For 15 years, Americans have been living in a constant state of “wartime” without any of the obvious signs of war. There is no draft. The public has in no way been mobilized. The fighting has all taken place in battle zones thousands of miles from the United States. Despite a rising homegrown fear of Islamic terrorism, an American in the continental U.S. faces greater danger from a toddler wielding a loaded gun. And yet, in ways often hard to chart, America’s endless wars -- Barack Obama is now slated to preside over the longest war presidency in our history -- have quietly come home.

Police Anti-Extremism Unit Monitoring Senior Green Party Figures

May 2, 2016 Rob Evans and Vikram Dodd, www.theguardian.com Educate! Green party, Police, Surveillance

By Rob Evans and Vikram Dodd for The Guardian - A secretive police unit tasked with spying on alleged extremists intent on committing serious crimes has been monitoring leading members of the Green party, the Guardian has learned. Newly released documents show that the intelligence unit has been tracking the political activities of the MP Caroline Lucas and Sian Berry, the party’s candidate for London mayor. Some of the monitoring took place as recently as last year and seemed to contradict a pledge from Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Metropolitan police commissioner, that the unit would only target serious criminals rather than peaceful protesters.

ACLU Condemns Surveillance Of Black Lives Matter Activists

April 23, 2016 Kit O'Connell, www.mintpressnews.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, ACLU, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Oregon, Surveillance

By Kit O'Connell for Mint Press News - PORTLAND, Oregon — An investigation of social media surveillance of Black Lives Matter activists shows a pattern of systemic racism and disregard for the law, according to an Oregon civil rights group. The comments from the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon came in response to a report issued this month by the Oregon Department of Justice on the DOJ’s Criminal Justice Division’s monitoring of the social media use of Black Lives Matter activists.

ACLU Critical Of Chicago Monitoring Protesters

April 11, 2016 Sarah Tisinger, www.wqad.com Resist! ACLU, Chicago, Protests, Surveillance

By Sarah Tisinger for WQAD - CHICAGO (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois says reports of Chicago police monitoring peaceful protest groups is “unsettling” and is calling for City Council hearings. The group issued a Sunday statement responding to a Chicago Sun-Times report, which outlined seven investigations by police since 2009 to monitor groups exercising free-speech rights. Emails released by the city in the wake of the 2014 fatal police-involved shooting of Laquan McDonald showed officials watched actions of protesters closely. The black teenager was shot by a white officer 16 times.

When Will US Government Stop Persecuting Whistleblowers?

March 22, 2016 Chelsea E Manning, www.theguardian.com Resist! Chelsea Manning, Politics, Surveillance

By Chelsea E Manning for The Guardian - The US government is heavily invested in an internal surveillance program that is unsustainable, ineffective, morally reprehensible, inherently dangerous and ultimately counterproductive. In the months following the US government’s initial charges against me over the release of government records in 2010, the current administration formed theNational Insider Threat Task Force under the authority of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and several other US government agencies.

Overseas Surveillance In An Interconnected World

March 21, 2016 Amos Toh, Faiza Patel, Elizabeth (Liza) Goitein, www.brennancenter.org Educate! NSA, Surveillance

By Amos Toh, Faiza Patel, Elizabeth (Liza) Goitein for Brennan Center for Justice - Recent debates about privacy and technology have focused on the actions of government agencies inside the U.S. — for example, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's efforts to break encryption on iPhones or the National Security Agency's bulk collection of Americans' phone records. But in a new report, we found that the NSA's overseas surveillance activities through Executive Order 12333, most of which remain shrouded in secrecy, may have a far great impact on Americans' privacy.

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