Surveillance

The Very Existence Of The NSA Is Illegal

March 17, 2016 John Kiriakou, www.readersupportednews.org Educate! NSA, Surveillance

By John Kiriakou for Reader Supported News - The Washington Post reported last week that the National Security Agency soon would begin providing local law enforcement with data on American citizens intercepted without probable cause and without a warrant. This data has nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism. It apparently will be used mostly in drug cases, although it could conceivably be used against any American for any reason. Most Americans shrugged their shoulders when the news became public.

In Whitney Exhibit, Poitras Explores The Art Of Surveillance

March 15, 2016 Jocelyn Noveck, www.bigstory.ap.org Create! Art, Surveillance

By Jocelyn Noveck for Associated Press - NEW YORK (AP) — Here's a question you've likely never asked yourself: Can covert surveillance be beautiful? But you might be asking it as you stroll through "Astro Noise," journalist and filmmaker Laura Poitras' exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art, in which images stemming from mass government surveillance are, in a number of cases, physically striking. Take, for example, the patterns of bright greens, blues and oranges adorning the wall as one enters the exhibit.

FBI Quietly Changes Privacy Rules For Accessing NSA Data On Americans

March 15, 2016 Spencer Ackerman, www.theguardian.com Educate! FBI, Privacy, Surveillance

By Spencer Ackerman for The Guardian - The FBI has quietly revised its privacy rules for searching data involving Americans’ international communications that was collected by the National Security Agency, US officials have confirmed to the Guardian. The classified revisions were accepted by the secret US court that governs surveillance, during its annual recertification of the agencies’ broad surveillance powers. The new rules affect a set of powers colloquially known as Section 702, the portion of the law that authorizes the NSA’s sweeping “Prism” program to collect internet data.

War Zone Tactics: Pentagon Admits Domestic Spy Drone Use

March 11, 2016 Lauren McCauley, www.commondreams.org Educate! Drones, Pentagon, Surveillance

By Lauren McCauley for Common Dreams - An internal Pentagon report made public on Wednesday revealed that the U.S. Department of Defense has been using unarmed drones to conduct surveillance missions over American soil since 2006. The Pentagon inspector general report, entitled "Evaluation of DoD Use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for Support to Civil Authorities," obtained by USA Today through a Freedom of Information Act request, said that "less than 20" such missions occurred between 2006 and 2015, though they anticipate many more in the years to come.

Surveillance Of Blackness From The Slave Trade To Today

March 7, 2016 Claudia Garcia-Rojas, www.truth-out.org Educate! Black History, History, Surveillance, US history

By Claudia Garcia-Rojas for Truthout - Mobilizations around Black Lives Matter have revived attention around surveillance of Black organizers and communities by the police and state institutions. The intensification of surveillance calls up comparisons to the civil rights era, when government surveillance programs, such as Cointelpro, were established to infiltrate, surveil and target leading movement organizers. Yet, as Simone Browne, a professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, demonstrates in her new book Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness...

What’s Really At Stake In The Apple Encryption Debate

February 29, 2016 Julia Angwin, www.propublica.org Educate! Apple, Encryption, FBI, Surveillance

By Julia Angwin for Pro Publica - The FBI’s much-discussed request to Apple can seem innocuous: Help us extract six weeks of encrypted data from the locked iPhone of Syed Farook, an employee of San Bernardino’s health department who spearheaded an attack that killed 14 people. Most people believe Apple should comply. But the FBI is demanding a lot more than the data on a single phone. It has obtained a court order requiring Apple to build custom surveillance software for the FBI – which computer security expert Dan Guido cleverly dubs an FBiOS.

40+ Cities Rally Tuesday Against FBI Over Apple Conflict

February 21, 2016 Evan Greer, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Apple, FBI, Privacy, Surveillance

Evan Greer for Fight For The Future. The FBI just got a judge to order Apple to create a backdoor into the iPhone — putting all of our safety at risk by exposing personal information to hackers, criminals, terrorists, and government spies. The FBI has been trying this for years, but now they’re exploiting the tragedy in San Bernardino to push their reckless agenda. Our basic safety and security is at stake. So on Tuesday, February 23rd we will gather at Apple stores nationwide with one simple message: “Don’t Break Our Phones!” This isn’t just about the iPhone, because once the government is able to order companies to unlock their devices and build in backdoors, none of our data will be safe, because courts will be able to issue similar orders for Androids, PCs, and every other device out there. Ultimately, breaking the security features of our phones puts all of our safety at risk. Once a backdoor is built, anyone who finds it can use it. That means it won’t only be used by governments or law enforcement. It’s only a matter of time until someone else finds it, enabling malicious hackers, foreign governments, terrorists, thieves and stalkers to use our data against us.

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.

FBI Demands Apple Grant Power To Hack All iPhone Users

February 18, 2016 Kevin Gosztola, www.shadowproof.com Resist! Apple, FBI, Hacking, Surveillance

By Kevin Gosztola for Shadowproof - Apple CEO Tim Cook announced the company will oppose the court order, declaring, “The U.S. government has asked us for something we simply do not have, and something we consider too dangerous to create. They have asked us to build a backdoor to the iPhone.” The announcement from Cook may be one of the most significant examples of a corporation standing up to the abusive power of the security state in the aftermath of National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden’s disclosures. “The FBI wants us to make a new version of the iPhone operating system, circumventing several important security features, and install it on an iPhone recovered during the investigation,” Cook explained. “In the wrong hands, this software—which does not exist today—would have the potential to unlock any iPhone in someone’s physical possession.”

NYPD Has Secretly Been Spying On Cell Phones Since 2008

February 12, 2016 Ryan Grenoble, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! NYPD, spying, Surveillance

By Ryan Grenoble for The Huffington Post - The New York Police Department has secretly tracked cell phones more than 1,000 times between 2008 and 2015, documents obtained by the New York Civil Liberties Union show. The documents, released only after an inquiry under the state's Freedom Of Information Law, or FOIL, reveal for the first time the NYPD owns and uses Stingrays. Stingrays, also known as cell-site simulators, are devices that mimic cell phone towers, then collect information from phones that attempt to connect to them. That information allows police to pinpoint a person's location.

Leak Reveals Denver Police Use Undercover ‘Shadow Teams’…

February 9, 2016 Kit O'Connell, www.mintpressnews.com Educate! Police, Protests, Surveillance

By Kit O'Connell for Mint Press News - DENVER — A leaked police manual reveals how Denver police respond to marches and other forms of protest, including their use of undercover “platoons” of officers to pick out leaders for later arrest. On Jan. 19, Unicorn Riot, an independent media collective with several members in the state, published a heavily redacted version of the 2011 edition of the “Denver Police Department Crowd Management Manual” obtained through a Colorado Open Records Act request. Days later, an anonymous source sent them an unredacted copy of the 2008 edition of the manual.

Privacy Watchdog Wants Info On Tracking Peaceful Protests

February 8, 2016 Staff, www.metronews.ca Resist! Canada, Protests, Surveillance

By Staff of Metro News - OTTAWA—Canada’s privacy watchdog wants more information on a central government agency keeping tabs on peaceful protests. Documents obtained by Torstar News Service show privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien’s office has asked the Government Operations Centre (GOC) to review its tracking of lawful protest and dissent. “In (the letter), we asked that a more detailed analysis of the privacy risks relating to monitoring of public protests and demonstrations be undertaken and given to us to review,” Tobi Cohen, a spokesperson for Therrien, wrote in a statement.

Surveillance And Surveys In Kabul

January 28, 2016 Kathy Kelly, www.counterpunch.org Educate! Afghanistan, Surveillance, Survey, US military

By Kathy Kelly for Counter Punch - In Kabul, where the Afghan Peace Volunteers have hosted me in their community, the U.S. military maintains a huge blimp equipped with cameras and computers to supply 24 hour surveillance of the city. Remotely piloted drones, operated by Air Force and Air National Guard personnel in U.S. bases, also fly over Afghanistan, feeding U.S. military analysts miles of camera footage, every day. Billions of dollars have been invested in a variety of blimps which various vendors, such as Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, and Aeros have shipped to Afghanistan.

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