1. Amnesty International Responds to U.K. Government Surveillance
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   A British tribunal admitted on Wednesday that the U.K. government had spied on Amnesty International and illegally retained some of its communications.
2. Australian government orders ASIO raids to suppress East Timor spying evidence
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   The Abbott governmen ordered Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and Australian Federal Police (AFP) raids on the homes and offices of a lawyer and former intelligence agency whistleblower involved in an international legal challenge to Australia’s spying on the East Timor government during maritime border talks in 2004.
3. Big Brother's Getting Bigger
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2012
   Government surveillance and attacks on the privacy of American citizens were bad enough under the Bush regime but they are getting even worse during the Obama years.
4. Big Oil's Chokehold on Canadian Democracy
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2014
   The fight against Big Oil corporatism may be the most important one you ever support.
5. The Big Secret That Makes the FBI's Anti-Encryption Campaign a Big Lie
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   McLaughlin discusses how hacking techniques and their increasing use are justified in a prevalent way by the American government.
6. Bold Scientists
   Dispatches from the Battle for Honest Science
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2014
   Accounts of scientists working in the public interest despite powerful opposition.
7. The boss is spying
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   The data mining by large U.S. corporations gets less attention than U.S. government surveillance. It goes beyond the tracking of every mouse-click, purchase and "like" registered by every consumer on the internet, and relies not only on sophisticated electronic devices, but on the currency of fear and sheer intimidation which would make a Big Brother tyrant proud, the kind depicted in George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984.
8. Bringing the Battlefield to the Border
   The Wild World of Border Security and Boundary Building in Arizona
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2012
   The U.S.-Mexican border has not only become Ground Zero for every experiment in immigration enforcement and drug interdiction, but also the incubator, testing site, showcase, and staging ground for ever newer versions of border-enforcement technology that, sooner or later, are sure to be applied globally.
9. Canada's Spy Groups Divulge Secret Intelligence to Energy Companies
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2012
   Documents raise fears that info on environmentalists, indigenous groups and more shared with industry at biannual, secret-level, briefings.
10. Capitalist Surveillance State: Everyone's a Target
    Threatening Reporters, Spying on Public
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    There is an inherent tendency for the state, which governs on behalf of a minuscule, ruthless class of obscenely wealthy exploiters, to attempt to amass ever greater power to control the population because it hates and fears the working people.
11. Chatter: Dispatches From the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    
12. Citizens Against State Surveillance
    Organization profile published 1984
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1984
    Inactive/Defunct Organization
    
13. 'City of Surveillance': Google-backed smart city sounds like a dystopian nightmare
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A Google-backed project to build the interconnected, data-driven ‘city of the future’ sounds like all George Orwell’s nightmares come true, and is now in the spotlight after a privacy expert resigned from the project in protest. Toronto’s Waterfront district used to be an industrial wasteland, but Sidewalk Labs – a sister company of Google – wants to turn that wasteland into a prototype ‘city of the future,’ where data helps planners micromanage every aspect of urban life.
14. The Computers are Listening
    How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Top-secret documents from the archive of Edward Snowden show the National Security Agency can now automatically recognize the content within phone calls by creating rough transcripts and phonetic representations that can be easily searched and stored.
15. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1984
    
16. Connexions Library: Human Rights and Civil Liberties Focus 
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on civil liberties and human rights.
17. Cookie Monster: the Nuts and Bolts of Online Tracking
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    Big Tech has become notorious for its hoarding of its users' personal data, collected with great breadth and down to minute details. Billions have been paid by online platforms to settle legal charges over their invasive and reckless privacy follies.
18. Coronavirus vs. the Mass Surveillance State: Which Poses the Greater Threat?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    Emboldened by the citizenry's inattention and willingness to tolerate its abuses, the government has weaponized one national crisis after another in order to expands its powers. The war on terror, the war on drugs, the war on illegal immigration, asset forfeiture schemes, road safety schemes, school safety schemes, eminent domain: all of these programs started out as legitimate responses to pressing concerns and have since become weapons of compliance and control in the police state's hands.
19. Corporate Coercion and the Drive to Eliminate Buying with Cash
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Consumer freedom and privacy are examined as coercive commercialism quickly moves toward a cashless economy, when all consumers are forced into corporate payment systems from credit/debit cards, mobile phones and perhaps even through facial recognition technology.
20. The Corporate State of Surveillance
    Opting Out
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    America was founded on the ideals of personal liberty, freedom and democracy. Now mass spying, surveillance and the unending collection of personal data undermine civil liberties and our privacy rights. We find ourselves in the midst of an all-out invasion on what’s-none-of-their-business and its coming from both government and corporate sources. Snooping and data collection have become big business. Nothing is out of their bounds anymore.
21. Corporations Spy on Nonprofits with Impunity
    Dow Chemical vs. Greenpeace
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Here's a dirty little secret you won't see in the daily papers: corporations conduct espionage against US nonprofit organizations without fear of being brought to justice.
22. Data Mining You
    How the Intelligence Community Is Creating a New American World
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Joseph K., that icon of single-lettered anonymity from Franz Kafka’s novel The Trial, would undoubtedly have felt right at home in Washington.
23. The Devil Operation 
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    A tale of corporate espionage unfolds in this exposé of torture, intimidation, and murder of Peruvian eco-activists and indigenous farmers. Shocking video footage, horrifying photos, and meticulous reports compiled by private security firms working for U.S. and British-owned gold mines are co-opted by the filmmakers to reveal the truth.
24. #DomesticExtremist trend mocks UK police surveillance of protesters
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Non-conformists across the UK are taking to social media to declare themselves #DomesticExtremists in a bid to raise awareness about secretive police powers.
25. Eavesdropping on the Planet
    The Inalienable Right to Snoop?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Like a mammoth vacuum cleaner in the sky, the National Security Agency (NSA) sucks it all up: home phone, office phone, cellular phone, email, fax, telex … satellite transmissions, fiber-optic communications traffic, microwave links … voice, text, images … captured by satellites continuously orbiting the earth, then processed by high-powered computers … if it runs on electromagnetic energy, NSA is there, with high high tech. Twenty-four hours a day. Perhaps billions of messages sucked up each day. No one escapes. Not presidents, prime ministers, the UN Secretary-General, the pope, the Queen of England, embassies, transnational corporation CEOs, friend, foe, your Aunt Lena …
26. Edward Snowden's Warning to Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Whistleblower Edward Snowden talks about Bill C-51 and the weak oversight of Canada's intelligence agencies.
27. EFF Launches IFightSurveillance.org and Counter-Surveillance Success Stories
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Sites Highlight How Opponents of Mass Surveillance Around the World Lead by Example
28. Even the Machines Are Racist. Facial Recognition Systems Threaten Black Lives.
    The use of surveillance technology for "security" comes at the expense of civil liberties for Black and Brown people.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    Politicians and companies pushing facial recognition technology say that, like the near-certainty of DNA and the exactness of fingerprint matches, the software is a precise, unbiased alternative to human bigotry in policing. Yet in reality, facial recognition technology is prone to false positives that target Black and Brown people, and then tracks them when they're on parole.
29. Eye in the Sky
    Surveillance and the Art of Arnold Mesches
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Round about the turn of this century Arnold Mesches, who is neither monk nor medievalist nor Christian, began illuminating manuscripts from the world that long since had killed God but appropriated or accommodated to a version of His all-seeing eye. The manuscripts in question: Mesches’ FBI file, 1945 to 1972.
30. Eyes Wide Open
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The recent revelations, made possible by NSA-whistleblower Edward Snowden, of the reach and scope of global surveillance practices have prompted a fundamental reexamination of the role of intelligence services in conducting coordinated cross-border surveillance.
31. Face Surveillance Is a Uniquely Dangerous Technology
    CounterSpin interview with Shankar Narayan on facial recognition
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Lightly edited transcript of an interview regarding face recognition technology and how it will impact people who are already over-policed.
32. Facebook and the Rise of Anti-Social Media
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    For those who haven't thought about it, the internet is insidious because of the very capacity that Cambridge Analytica claims to be able to exploit: customization. Users have limited ability to confirm the authenticity of anything they see, read or hear on it. Print editions can be compared and contrasted-- technology limits print media to large-scale deceptions. With the capacity to create entire realms of deception -- identities, content, web pages and entire online publications, trust is made a function of gullibility.
33. Fake cell phone 'towers' may be spying on Americans' calls, texts
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    More than a dozen 'fake cell phone towers' could be secretly hijacking Americans' mobile devices in order to listen in on phone calls or snoop on text messages, a security-focused cell phone company claims. It is not clear who controls the devices.
34. FBI Ignored Deadly Threat to Occupiers
    US Intelligence Machine Instead Plotted with Bankers to Attack Protest Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Dcuments show that the FBI and other intelligence and law enforcement agencies began a campaign of monitoring, spying and disrupting the Occupy Movement at least two months before the first occupation actions began in late September 2011.
35. The FBI: Silent Terror of the Fourth Reich
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Lately, there's been a lot of rhetoric comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. The concern is that a Nazi-type regime may be rising in America. That process, however, began a long time ago.
36. The FBI's secret biometrics database they don't want you to see
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) wants to prevent information about its creepy biometric database, which contains fingerprint, face, iris, and voice scans of millions of Americans, from getting out to the public. The Department of Justice has come up with a proposal to exempt the biometric database from public disclosure. It states that the Next Generation Identification System (NGI) should not be subject to the Privacy Act, which requires federal agencies to give people access to records that have been collected concerning them, "allowing them to verify and correct them if needed."
37. The FBI's Secret Rules
    President Trump has inherited a vast domestic intelligence agency with extraordinary secret powers.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    A collection of articles exploring the contents and implications of a cache of internal FBI manuals, offering a rare window into the FBI’s quiet expansion since 9/11.
38. Fighting Secrecy and the National Security State
    An Interview With Birgitta Jonsdottir, the Co-Producer of WikiLeaks's "Collateral Murder" Video
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    An interview with Iceland Member of Parliament Birgitta Jonsdottir of the Pirate Party on the status of the international struggle against government secrecy and surveillance.
39. First Nations Under Surveillance
    Harper Government Prepares for First Nations "Unrest"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    There needs to be unity on the ground with coordinated political actions between First Nations Peoples in order to protect, defend and advance First Nation pre-existing sovereignty, and First Nation Aboriginal and Treaty rights to lands and resources. Divide and conquer tactics can only be met with new strategies of alliance-building, and by bringing the leadership back down to the land.
40. Freedom, Valor, Love: On Snowden's Permanent Record
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Edward Snowden's life reveals it's not just "the computer guy" (or other non-male folks) at tech's helms, but the general U.S. public that bears witness to corporatized data surveillance state violations, or the data industrial complex. This secretive sprawling network is the invasive rule today; it involves regular media outlets, telecommunications, social media platforms, Internet service providers, and government agencies.
41. GCHQ and European spy agencies worked together on mass surveillance
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Edward Snowden papers unmask close technical cooperation and loose alliance between British, German, French, Spanish and Swedish spy agencies.
42. Genetic Testing of Citizens Is a Backdoor into Total Population Surveillance by Governments and Companies
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The new Chief Executive of the National Health Service (NHS) in England, Simon Stevens, was recently reported arguing that the NHS must be transformed to make people’s personal genetic information the basis of their treatments.
43. Die Globale Teleueberwachung des 21. Jahrhunderts
    Resource Type: Article
    Es entsteht zur Zeit eine globale Teleuberwachung, die sich von allen ethischen oder diplomatischen Voreingenomenheiten freimacht.
44. Google keeps tracking you even when you specifically tell it not to: Maps, Search won't take no for an answer
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Google has admitted that its option to "pause" the gathering of your location data doesn't apply to its Maps and Search apps – which will continue to track you even when you specifically choose to halt such monitoring.
45. Government Spying Aims to Silence Us
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    What the ruling class is aiming at, with these occasional "leaks" about its spying on us, is not so much to collect information about us but rather to make us feel so totally spied upon that we will be afraid to do or say anything we know the government doesn't want us to do or say.
46. GovernmentSources.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    A portal with information about government, Canadian and international, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
47. Here come the thought police
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has declared his intention to fast-track legislation expanding CSIS and police powers of “surveillance, detention and arrest.”
48. How California police are tracking your biometric data in the field
    Agencies are using mobile fingerprint scanners, tattoo and facial recognition software
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    EFF and MuckRock got together to reveal how state and local law enforcement agencies are using mobile biometric technology in the field by filing public records requests around the country. Thousands of pages of documents were obtained from more than 30 agencies.
49. How Drug Courier Profiles Begot Terrorism Watch Lists
    The Drug War and the Fourth Amendment
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    More than a million names are now included on the catch-all terrorist watch list maintained by U.S. government agencies.
50. If U.S. Mass Media Were State-Controlled, Would They Look Any Different?
    Snowden Coverage
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The Edward Snowden leaks have revealed a U.S. corporate media system at war with independent journalism. Many of the same outlets that missed the Wall Street meltdown and cheer-led the Iraq invasion have come to resemble state-controlled media outlets in their near-total identification with the government.
51. India's UID And The Fantasy Of Dataveillance
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The perils of establishing nationwide identity systems have always been a hot topic of debate in countries that attach great value to privacy and human rights of its citizens. In India, there is not even a whimper of protest from politicians and civil society groups.
52. Information Overload
    Driving a Stake Through the National Security State
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Here’s an idea. Let’s all start salting all of our conversations and our written communications with a selection of those 300 key words. If every liberty-loving person in America virus were to do this, the NSA would have to employ all 15 million unemployed Americans just to begin to look at all those transcripts!
53. Inside NSA, Officials Privately Criticize 'Collect It All' Surveillance
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    As Members of Congress struggle to agree on which surveillance programs to re-authorize before the Patriot Act expires, they might consider the unusual advice of an intelligence analyst at the National Security Agency who warned about the danger of collecting too much data.
54. Intelligence Online
    Resource Type: Website
    Online newsletter dealing with intelligence issues.
55. IntelligentSearch.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2017
    A web portal featuring topics related to research and the Internet. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
56. The Intercept
    Resource Type: Website
    A platform to report on the documents previously provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, with a long-term mission is to produce fearless, adversarial journalism across a wide range of issues.
57. Internet Companies: Confusing Consumers for Profit
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    In the age of information, companies are hungry for your data. They want it - even if it means resorting to trickery.
58. Is Lockheed Martin Shadowing You?
    How a Giant Weapons Maker Became the New Big Brother
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The increasing influence and role of Lockhead Martin, the giant weapons corporation.
59. Journalistic Malpractice at the Post and the Times
    Rejecting the Offer of Evidence of US War Crimes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Wikileaks source Bradley Manning is evidence that the USA’s two leading news organizations, the Washington Post and the New York Times, are not willing to report critically of the government.
60. The Last Post Files: Fighting subversion or protecting the government from embarrassment?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The Last Post was one of the best alternative publications of the 1970s. While the small team of journalists was creating solid investigative journalism, the RCMP Security Service was keeping a close watch. One of its aims? Protect the government from embarrassment.
61. Law Union News
    Periodical profile published 1980
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
    
62. Legal Lessons From the Green Scare
    When the Constitution is No Obstacle to the FBI
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Green Scare prosecutors and their coordinators in Washington are willing to destroy individual lives to score political points, and to trample their own rules in the process.
63. Lessons of the Snowden Revelations
    You are the Target!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    We in the Left have long worried about “police state tactics”. Now we have to confront the police state structure. It’s here and it can morph into a real police state with very little effort. Opposing and dismantling it should now be among our top priorities.
64. Location Tracking: A Pervasive Problem in Modern Technology
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    NSA is tracking people around the Internet and the physical world. These newly-revealed techniques hijacked personal information that was being transmitted for some commercial purpose, converting it into a tool for surveillance. One technique involved web cookies, while another involved mobile apps disclosing their location to location-based services.
65. The Logic behind Mass Spying: Empire and Cyber Imperialism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Revelations about the long-term global, intrusive spying by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and other allied intelligence apparatuses have provoked widespread protests and indignation and threatened ties between erstwhile imperial allies.
66. Mass Incarceration for Profit
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    In the face of growing public criticism and improved technologies, companies like Securus search for new ways to remain competitive while marketing themselves as providers of a quality service that keeps the public safe. Yet with the involvement of global financial houses in the prison industrial complex, the pressure mounts to produce value for shareholders. Ultimately, this systematically incentivizes mass incarceration. While we often hear about the activities of private prison providers like Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group, corporate interests are immersed in every aspect of criminal justice.
67. Mass Surveillance is Driven by the Private Sector
    The Lesson of Hacking Team's Malware
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A report published by Privacy International as well as an article posted by Vice Motherboard clearly show that both the DEA and the United States Army have long-standing relationships with Hacking Team, an Italian company that’s notorious for selling malware to any number of unsavory characters.
68. Metadata Is More Intrusive Than Direct Listening Of Phone Calls Says Snowden
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Government monitoring of “metadata” is more intrusive than directly listening to phone calls or reading emails.
69. Mistaking Omniscience for Omnipotence 
    In a World Without Privacy, There Are No Exemptions for Our Spies
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Given how similar they sound and how easy it is to imagine one leading to the other, confusing omniscience (having total knowledge) with omnipotence (having total power) is easy enough. It’s a reasonable supposition that, before the Snowden revelations hit, America's spymasters had made just that mistake. If the drip-drip-drip of Snowden’s mother of all leaks -- which began in June and clearly won’t stop for months to come -- has taught us anything, however, it should be this: omniscience is not omnipotence. At least on the global political scene today, they may bear remarkably little relation to each other. In fact, at the moment Washington seems to be operating in a world in which the more you know about the secret lives of others, the less powerful you turn out to be.
70. Nature, science & power
    Questions need to be asked...
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2014
    Here many questions will be asked, some answers attempted. This blog connects to a new book: Bold Scientists: dispatches from the battle for honest science, published in 2014 by Between the Lines.
71. The New Police Surveillance State
    The Rising Price of Political Assembly
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Police are increasingly being deployed to restrict if not prevent mass political actions, especially directed at the banks.
72. No News is Not Good News
    Cops Taping Protesters & Journalists
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    If cops photograph and videotape protesters and journalists, it's news if it happens in China, but when it happens in the U.S., as it routinely does, the media are silent.
73. The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Surveillance
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    In the world of CCTV, email and DNA, this book shows the extent to which Big Brother is watching us all.
74. No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2014
    Glenn Greenwald recounts his 10-day trip to Honk Kong where he acquired the Snowden Files. Additionally, Greenwald discusses the NSA's unprecedented abuse of power, as well as the media's habitual avoidance of adversarial reporting on the government and their failure to serve the interests of the people.
75. No Safe Harbor: How NSA Spying Undermined U.S. Tech and Europeans' Privacy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The spread of knowledge about the NSA's surveillance programs has shaken the trust of customers in U.S. Internet companies like Facebook, Google, and Apple: especially non-U.S. customers who have discovered how weak the legal protections over their data is under U.S. law.
76. NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The National Security Agency has made repeated attempts to develop attacks against people using Tor, a popular tool designed to protect online anonymity, despite the fact the software is primarily funded and promoted by the US government itself.
77. The NSA Has Effectively Destroyed Internet Privacy
    Snowden's Latest
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Whistle-blower Edward Snowden prove that the NSA, working with its British counterpart the Government Communications Headquarters has conducted an intentional and largely sucessful campaign to destroy all privacy on the Internet.
78. NSA learning how to snoop on pacemakers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The NSA is seeking new ways to satisfy its hunger for raw data by exploiting the so-called internet of things, an emerging network connecting objects such as vehicles, home appliances and biomedical devices. "We're looking at it sort of theoretically from a research point of view right now," the spy agency's Deputy Director Richard Ledgett told a conference on military technology at Washington's Newseum on Friday.
79. The Obliteration of Privacy
    Snowden and the NSA
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    It’s remarkable how little outrage Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations have provoked in the American public. One often heard response is something like, “Well, I don’t have anything to hide, so I don’t care if the government is listening to what I say. And if they catch some terrorists, so much the better.”
80. On Being Watched in the 60s
    When Police Power was Embraced as a Form of Government
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    There would seem to be the notion that the Sixties were the product of immaculate conception. In fact, they were more an act of conversion, conversion of the isolated, unfocussed, dispersed and inarticulate alienation of the 1950s into a mass movement with common language, direction, and rules.
81. On Locational Privacy, and How to Avoid Losing it Forever
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Over the next decade, systems which create and store digital records of people's movements through public space will be woven inextricably into the fabric of everyday life. We are already starting to see such systems now, and there will be many more in the near future.
82. Online Rights for Online Workers - Privacy at Work
    Resource Type: Website
    Deals with workers' right to privacy in the face of online surveillance by employers.
83. Online Survival Kit
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    This Online Survival Kit offers practical tools, advice and techniques that teach you how to circumvent censorship and to secure yo communications and data. This handbook will gradually be unveiled over the coming months in order to provide everyone with the means to resist censors, governments or interests groups that want to courntrol news and information and gag dissenting voices. The Reporters Without Borders Digital Survival Kit is available in French, English, Arabic, Russian et Chinese. Published under the Creative Commons licence, its content is meant to be used freely and circulated widely.
84. An Online Tracking Device That’s Virtually Impossible to Block
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    A new kind of tracking tool, canvas fingerprinting, is being used to follow visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn.
85. The Orwellian Re-Branding of 'Mass Surveillance' as Merely 'Bulk Collection'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Just as the Bush administration and the U.S. media re-labelled "torture" with the Orwellian euphemism "enhanced interrogation techniques" to make it more palatable, the governments and media of the Five Eyes surveillance alliance are now attempting to re-brand "mass surveillance" as "bulk collection" in order to make it less menacing (and less illegal).
86. Orwell's Triumph: How Novels Tell the Truth of Surveillance
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Novels may be the best medium for describing a distopian world in which everyone is under constant surveillance.
87. The Other Police State
    Private Cops vs. the Public Good
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    A revealing study on "Spooky Business: A New Report on Corporate Espionage Against Non-profits" written by Gary Ruskin confirms one’s worst suspicions about the ever-expanding two-headed U.S. security state. It details how some companies use the security apparatus, including questionable espionage tactics, against anyone who challenges their authority.
88. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 17, 2014
    Gaza
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2014
    Topic of the week is Gaza, which was under attack by Israel as this issue appeared. Articles on surveillance capitalism, the tactics and successes of the movement for same-sex marriage in the United States, and profiles of alternative archives. Website of the week is Democracy Now!
89. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 4, 2014
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Information about the Connexions Alternative Media List and the Labor Film Archive. Articles on corporations spying on non-profits, workplace deaths, Monsanto and Ukraine, and liberal environmentalism. Topic of the week is Violence Against Journalists. Book of the week is Bold Scientists.
90. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 30, 2014
    Refugees
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2014
    Topic of the week is Refugees. Featured articles look at migration, counter-surveillance resources, farmers in Ghana fighting to retain the freedom to save their own seeds, and rebuilding communities faced with mining companies in Ecuador. The website of the week is Mediamatters. From the archives we've got Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement.
91. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 29, 2015
    Land seizures and land take-overs
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    This issue of Other Voices focuses on the issue of land seizures and land take-overs. Also included: Greece's solidarity movement, and the challenges and opportunities it faces after the election of a Syrizia government. From the archives, there are interviews about the 1974 occupation of Anicinabe Park, an article about anti-dicrimination fighter Viola Desmond, and the publication, in 1929, of All Quiet on the Western Front.
92. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 26, 2015
    Ukraine
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    Ukraine is spotlighted in this issue of Other Voices, with several articles on the events of the past year, from the overthrow of the government, to the rise of the far right, the armed conflict in the east, and aggressive US/NATO moves setting the stage for a possible nuclear war between the US and Russia. Also in this issue, #DomesticExtremists ridicule police state legislation in the UK, world inequality in one simple graphic, and people's history items about mass strikes in the First World War, and the new People's Archive of Rural India.
93. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 12, 2015
    Organizing
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    The focus of this issue is organizing. How can we challenge and overcome entrenched structures of economic and political power? Our own source of power is our latent ability to join together and work toward common goals, collectively. That requires organizing. Power gives way only when it is challenged by powerful movements for change, and movements grow out of organizing. In this newsletter, we feature a number of articles, books, and other organizing resources.
94. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 3, 2015
    Greece and thd debt crisis
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    Our spotlight this issue is on the debt crisis facing Greece. To understand the crisis, one has to look beyond the mainstream media to alternative sources of information. We've done that, with articles that set out to analyze the nature of the debt burden that has been imposed on the citizens of so many countries, not just Greece. Also: celebrating Grace Lee Bogg’s 100th birthday.
95. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 2, 2016
    Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Brexit, the British vote to leave the European Union, has thrown the political elites into turmoil and confusion. The referendum was supposed to be a safe political manoeuvre, a way to produce an appearance of democratic legitimacy for the profoundly undemocratic structures of the EU. The gambit turned out to be a spectacular miscalculation, as millions of people turned out to express their opposition to a state of affairs that is leaving the majority worse off while enriching a small minority. This issue of Other Voices looks at the Brexit referendum, elite loathing for democracy, and the related attempt to get rid of Labour's leftwing leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
96. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 30, 2017
    Affirming life, resisting war, reporting UFOs
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2017
    What do we do when those in power recklessly put the future of the entire planet at risk with their acts of aggression and military provocations, while they ignore the growing disaster of climate change? We fight back and organize, on every level, wherever we are, doing whatever offers the hope of resisting and of building a movement that can stop and overturn the out-of-control monster of late capitalism.
97. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 22, 2017
    Secrecy and Power
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2017
    Secrecy is a weapon the powerful use against their enemies: us. This issue of Other Voices explores the relationship of secrecy and power.
98. Permanent Record
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2019
    
99. The Police State is Real
    It Has Happened Here
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The Bush regime’s response to 9/11 and the Obama regime’s validation of this response have destroyed accountable democratic government in the United States. So much unaccountable power has been concentrated in the executive branch that the US Constitution is no longer an operable document.
100. Police State: US Government-Funded Database Created to Track "Subversive Propaganda" Online
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     The creation of the Truthy database by Indiana University researchers has drawn sharp criticism from free-speech advocates and others concerned over government censorship of political expression.
101. Political activist Ken Stone takes CSIS to task for alleged harassment
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     What is it like to be targeted by Canada's spy agency? Veteran anti-war and environmental activist Ken Stone knows firsthand and is willing to talk about it.
102. Political Persecution in Puerto Rico: Uncovering Secret Files
     Against The Current vol. 85
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2000
     In the summer of 1987 Puerto Rico was shaken by revelations that the island's police was collecting information on so called “political subversives,” and that it was in possession of thousands of extensive carpetas (files) concerning individuals of all social groups and ages.
103. Preparing for a Digital 9/11
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2012
     In recent years, in one of the more dangerous, if largely undiscussed, developments of our time, the Bush and then Obama administrations have launched the first state-planned war in cyber space. First, there were the "Olympic Games," then the Stuxnet virus, then Flame, and now it turns out that other sophisticated malware programs have evidently followed.
104. Privacy!
     How to get it .... How to enjoy it
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1977
     
105. Profiled
     From Radio to Porn, British Spies Track Web Users' Online Identities
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     Amid a renewed push from the U.K. government for more surveillance powers, more than two dozen documents being disclosed by The Intercept reveal for the first time several major strands of GCHQ’s (Government Communications Headquarters) existing electronic eavesdropping capabilities.
106. Radio Frequency ID Removes Freedom
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2006
     Radio Frequency ID violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and is part of the stealthy forging of a police state.
107. Real-Time Face Recognition Threatens to Turn Cops' Body Cameras Into Surveillance Machines
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     For years, the development of real-time face recognition has been hampered by poor video resolution, the angles of bodies in motion, and limited computing power. But as systems begin to transcend these technical barriers, they are also outpacing the development of policies to constrain them. Civil liberties advocates fear that the rise of real-time face recognition alongside the growing number of police body cameras creates the conditions for a perfect storm of mass surveillance.
108. Reflections on a whistleblower: Two years after Snowden
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     Two years after Snowden, the international state of surveillance and the ranks of whistleblowers both continue to grow.
     
109. The Return of COINTELPRO?
     Time to Target the Real Terrorists
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     The FBI was using its offices and agents across the country as early as August 2011 to engage in a massive surveillance scheme against Occupy Wall Street. The documents show a government agency at its most paranoid.
110. Revealed: How DOJ Gagged Google over Surveillance of WikiLeaks Volunteer
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     The Obama administration fought a legal battle against Google to secretly obtain the email records of a security researcher and journalist associated with WikiLeaks.
111. Rights and Freedoms State Fear The Global attack on rights
     New Internationalist March 2005
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2005
     A look into rights and freedoms, the connection to occupation, and their state in different parts of the world.
112. Rogue State 
     A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2005
     A mini-encyclopedia of the numerous un-humanitarian acts perpetrated by the United States since the end of the Second World War.
113. Secret Service
     Political Policing in Canada From the Fenians to Fortress America
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2012
     A history of political policing in Canada.
114. The Servility of the Satellites
     The Snowden Affair and the Destruction of Effective Democracy in Europe
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     Recent revelations confirm the completion of the transformation of the "Western democracies" into something else, an entity that as yet has no recognized name. The outrage against the Bolivian President confirmed that this trans-Atlantic entity has absolutely no respect for international law, even though its leaders will make use of it when it suits them. But respect it, allow it to impede their actions in any way? Certainly not. And this disrespect for the law is linked to a more basic institutional change: the destruction of effective democracy at the national level.
115. Snowden document confirms US-backed mass surveillance in Australia
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     The document obtained by the former US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor confirms that the electronic surveillance agency, the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), monitors the domestic population, as well as the people and governments of many Asian countries.
116. Snowden leak: MI5 has gathered so much data it may actually be missing 'life-saving intelligence'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2016
     British spies may have missed potentially "life-saving intelligence" because their surveillance systems were sweeping up more data than could be analyzed, a leaked classified report reveals. The document, given to The Intercept by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, was sent to top British government officials, outlining methods being developed by the UK’s domestic intelligence agency, MI5, to covertly monitor internet communications.
117. Snowden, Surveillance And The Secret State
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     There is plenty to be said about living under a giant system of government surveillance. Just don't expect the corporate media to explore the full extent of what it really all means.
118. Snowden's NSA Leaks Catalogued In First Searchable Database Of The Surveillance Documents
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     Canadian journalists and researchers have teamed up to create the world's first fully-searchable index of the classified documents revealing NSA surveillance leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
119. A Social History of Wiretaps
     Memory's Half-Life
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     American’s century-long distrust of electronic surveillance is shifting to Americans accepting and internalizing new levels of state surveillance.
120. Socialist Rights Defense Fund
     Organization profile published 1978
     Resource Type: Organization
     First Published: 1978
     Inactive/Defunct Organization
     
121. The Soft Cage
     Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2004
     Parenti explores the history of American surveillance from colonial times to the present. What this historical evidence clearly reveals is a continuum of the culture of surveillance. The weakest, most disenfranchised and most alienated groups are subjected first, and then the surveillance regime slowly spreads toward the mainstream.
122. Someone's Watching You!
     From Micropchips in your Underwear to Satellites Monitoring Your Every Move, Find Out Who's Tracking You and What You Can Do about It
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2011
     An expose and explanation of the little-known secret surveillance programs run by both the public and private sectors, including practical steps on how to keep your private life private.
123. Sources HotLink - June 30, 2016
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2016
     Articles about the FBI and the information it gathers, Donald Trump and the media, and the role of pharmaceutical companies in suppressing information.
124. Spies Hacked Computers Thanks to Sweeping Secret Warrants, Aggressively Stretching U.K. Law
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     British spies have received government permission to intensively study software programs for ways to infiltrate and take control of computers. The GCHQ spy agency was vulnerable to legal action for the hacking efforts, known as "reverse engineering," since such activity could have violated copyright law. But GCHQ sought and obtained a legally questionable warrant from the Foreign Secretary in an attempt to immunize itself from legal liability.
125. The Spy Who Fired Me
     The human costs of workplace monitoring
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     Kaplan discusses the growing practice of employers monitoring the internet use of their employees.
126. Spying by the Numbers
     Hundreds of Thousands Subject to Government Surveillance and No Real Protection
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     Thanks to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden many more people in the US and world-wide are learning about extensive US government surveillance and spying. There are publicly available numbers which show the reality of these problems are bigger than most think and most of this spying is happening with little or no judicial oversight.
127. Spying on Democracy
     Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2013
     Heidi Boghosian documents the disturbing increase in surveillance of ordinary citizens and the danger it poses to our privacy, our civil liberties, and to the future of democracy itself.
128. Submission to the MacDonald Commissionon the R.C.M.P
     Resource Type: Article
     The authors of this submission are concerned with the presence of the RCMP Security Services at events such as trade union meetings.
129. Surveillance and the Corporate State
     Spying, Control and Murder Under the Imperial Presidency
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     With all of the fear mongering the subject has received in recent decades, Americans have in fact had remarkably little to fear directly from ‘terrorism.’
130. Surveillance Capitalism 
     Monopoly-Finance Capital, the Military-Industrial Complex, and the Digital Age
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     A massive corporate sales effort and military-industrial complex constituted the two main surplus-absorption mechanisms in the U.S. economy in the first quarter-century after the Second World War, followed by financialization after the crisis of the 1970s. Each of these means of surplus absorption were to add impetus in different ways to the communications revolution, and each necessitated new forms of surveillance and control. The result was a universalization of surveillance, associated with all three areas.
131. Surveillance Self-Defense 
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2018
     Modern technology has given those in power new abilities to eavesdrop and collect data on innocent people. Surveillance Self-Defense is EFF's guide to defending yourself and your friends from surveillance by using secure technology and developing careful practices.
132. Surveillance USA
     NSA and the PRISM Project
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     The government is merrily going about its business of keeping tabs on you in virtually every conceivable way.
133. Ten Steps You Can Take Right Now Against Internet Surveillance
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     One of the trends we've seen is how, as the word of the NSA's spying has spread, more and more ordinary people want to know how (or if) they can defend themselves from surveillance online. With a few small steps, you can make that kind of surveillance a lot more difficult and expensive, both against you individually, and more generally against everyone.
134. The Terrifying World of Electronic Monitoring
     From Drone Strikes to Martha Stewart
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     Electronic monitoring is about tracking and marking. The GPS technology that is trending in electronic monitors tracks people’s every movement with the purpose of marking them for punishment if they deviate from the program
135. 13 Things the Government is Trying to Keep Secret From You
     Constitutional Black Out
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     The President and the Government are intentionally keeping massive amounts of information about surveillance secret.
136. Thirteen Ways Government Tracks Us
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2012
     Privacy is eroding fast as technology offers government increasing ways to track and spy on citizens. Here are thirteen examples of how some of the biggest government agencies and programs track people.
137. Thousands Join Legal Fight Against UK Surveillance — And You Can, Too
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     Thousands of people are signing up to join an unprecedented legal campaign against the United Kingdom’s leading electronic surveillance agency.
138. The Thrust Toward Opacity
     Shh! It's a Secret!
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     Lately we’ve been bombarded by Secrets. We don’t know many of the details, but we do know of their existence, at least some of them. Let’s turn briefly to some specifics, first in the area of intelligence and surveillance, then in the terrain of military and paramilitary actions, and finally in the sphere of economic efforts.
139. Top-Secret Document Reveals NSA Spied on Porn Habits as Part of Plan to Discredit 'Radicalizers'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     The National Security Agency has been gathering records of online sexual activity and evidence of visits to pornographic websites as part of a proposed plan to harm the reputations of those whom the agency believes are radicalizing others through incendiary speeches, according to a top-secret NSA document. The document, provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, identifies six targets, all Muslims, as "exemplars" of how "personal vulternabilities" can be learned through electronic surveillance, and then exploited to undermine a target's credibility, reputation and authority.
140. Two out of Three Investigative Journalists in US Believe They're Being Spied On
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     In the wake of the NSA mass surveillance scandal, a vast majority of investigative journalists believe that the U.S. government is spying on them, and large numbers say that this belief impacts the way they go about their reporting.
141. Uber Plans to Track Users Should Not Be Allowed, Says Privacy Group
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     A formal complaint has been filed against Uber, the car ride company, by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a non-profit advocacy group. The NGO says Uber plans to use their smart phone app to access user's locations at all times, and to send advertisements to user's contact lists.
142. Uncivil Obedience
     The Tactics and Tales of a Democratic Agitator
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1991
     How to push for social change without breaking the law.
143. US Government Systematically Spying on Citizens
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     The US government has been systematically violating the privacy rights of U.S. citizens.
     
144. Very Mention of Snowden's Name Makes Prosecutors Tremble
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has become such a powerful symbol of government overreach that federal prosecutors in a terror case in Chicago are asking the judge to forbid defense attorneys from even mentioning his name during trial, for fear that it would lead the jury to disregard their evidence.
145. Le Viol du Courier/Violation of the Mail
     Resource Type: Article
     The League on Human Rights presents arguments against the legality and acceptability of Bill C-26. This bill, introduced to Parliament in February 1978, aims to authorize the opening of first-class mail.
146. Vodafone Reveals Existence of Secret Wires that Allow State Surveillance
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     Wires allow agencies to listen to or record live conversations, in what privacy campaigners are calling a 'nightmare scenario'.
147. A Walking Tour of New York's Massive Surveillance Network
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2016
     So it felt a bit risky to be climbing up a street pole on Wall Street to closely inspect a microwave radar sensor, or to be lingering under a police camera, pointing and gesturing at the wires and antenna connected to it. Yet it was also entirely appropriate to be doing just that, especially in the company of Ingrid Burrington, author of the new book "Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure," which points out that many of the city's communications and surveillance programs were conceived and funded in response to the attacks.
148. War Against the People
     Israel, The Palestinians and Global Pacification
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2015
     Governments today are waging a 'war against the people' -- whether 'securitization' against asylum seekers in Fortress Europe, 'counterinsurgency' in Afghanisation, or the subliminal war of policy and surveillance arising everywhere. Israel's contribution to this is key: exporting the high-tech weaponry, security systrems and methods of pacification perfected on the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories.
149. The Watchers
     The Rise of America's Surveillance State
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2010
     An exploration of how and why the American government increasingly spies on its own citizens.
150. West Germany: Censorship and Repression in the Model State
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1979
     In West Germany, repression is now 'democratically' sanctioned and seen as a model for other countries to adopt.
151. Whose National Security?
     Canadian State Surveillance and the Creation of Enemies
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2000
     Examines RCMP monitoring of trade unionists, Left-wing political groups, students, gays and lesbians, feminists, consumers' associations, Black activists, First Nations people, and Quebec sovereignists.
152. Why Do We Expose Ourselves?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2016
     Among critics of technological surveillance, there are two allusions so commonplace they have crossed into the realm of cliché. One, as you have probably already guessed, is George Orwell's Big Brother, from 1984. The other is Michel Foucault’s panopticon -- a vision, adapted from Jeremy Bentham, of a prison in which captives cannot tell if or when they are being watched. Today, both of these touchstones are considered chillingly prophetic. But in Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age, Bernard Harcourt has another suggestion: Both of them are insufficient.
153. WikiLeaks Vault 7 Reveals CIA Cyberwar and the Battleground of Democracy
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     WikiLeaks dropped a bombshell on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Code-named “Vault 7”, the whistleblowing site began releasing the largest publication of confidential documents that have come from the top secret security network at the Cyber Intelligence Center.
154. With Power of Social Media Growing, Police Now Monitoring and Criminalizing Online Speech 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     Criminal cases for online political speech are now commonplace in the UK, notorious for its hostility to basic free speech and press rights. As The Independent's James Bloodworth reported last week, "around 20,000 people in Britain have been investigated in the past three years for comments made online."
155. The World Google Controls and Surveillance Capitalism
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Google's encroaching powers over our lives, to include the freedom of expression protected by most national laws, not to mention EU and UN Charters, around the planet today.
156. XKEYSCORE: NSA's Google for the World's Private Communications
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     The NSA's XKEYSCORE program, first revealed by The Guardian, sweeps up countless people's Internet searches, emails, documents, usernames and passwords, and other private communications. XKEYSCORE is fed a constant flow of Internet traffic from fiber optic cables that make up the backbone of the world’s communication network, among other sources, for processing.
157. Youth Subdued
     8 Ways Young Americans Have Been Dominated
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2011
     Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. But now young Americans—even more so than older Americans—appear to have acquiesced to the idea that the corporatocracy can completely screw them and that they are helpless to do anything about it.

Experts on Surveillance in the Sources Directory

1. Wikileaks