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Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box. Results145 Connexions Library2 Connexions Directory of Groups & Websites 1 Sources Experts & Spokespersons 45 Sources Library 4 From the Connexions Archives Connexions LibraryAmnesty International Responds to U.K. Government Surveillance Elsayed-Ali, Sherif Article 2015 A British tribunal admitted on Wednesday that the U.K. government had spied on Amnesty International and illegally retained some of its communications. Australian government orders ASIO raids to suppress East Timor spying evidence Head, Mike Article 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 whistleb... Big Brother's Getting Bigger Smith, Jack A. Article 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. Big Oil's Chokehold on Canadian Democracy Dobbin, Murray Article 2014 The fight against Big Oil corporatism may be the most important one you ever support. The Big Secret That Makes the FBI's Anti-Encryption Campaign a Big Lie McLaughlin, Jenna Article 2015 McLaughlin discusses how hacking techniques and their increasing use are justified in a prevalent way by the American government. Bold Scientists: Dispatches from the Battle for Honest Science Riordon, Michael Book 2014 Accounts of scientists working in the public interest despite powerful opposition. The boss is spying Lin, Htun Article 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 ... Bringing the Battlefield to the Border: The Wild World of Border Security and Boundary Building in Arizona Miller, Todd Article 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 ev... Canada's Spy Groups Divulge Secret Intelligence to Energy Companies Groves, Tim Article 2012 Documents raise fears that info on environmentalists, indigenous groups and more shared with industry at biannual, secret-level, briefings. Capitalist Surveillance State: Everyone's a Target: Threatening Reporters, Spying on Public Article 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 be... The Computers are Listening: How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text Froomkin,Dan Article 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 repr... Connexions: Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social Serial Publication (Periodical) 1984 Connexions Library: Human Rights and Civil Liberties Focus  Website Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on civil liberties and human rights. Corporate Coercion and the Drive to Eliminate Buying with Cash Nader, Ralph Article 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, mobil... The Corporate State of Surveillance: Opting Out Nader, Ralph Article 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 right... Corporations Spy on Nonprofits with Impunity: Dow Chemical vs. Greenpeace Nader, Ralph Article 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. Data Mining You: How the Intelligence Community Is Creating a New American World Engelhardt, Tom Article 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. The Devil Operation Boyd, Stephanie 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 re... #DomesticExtremist trend mocks UK police surveillance of protesters Article 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. Eavesdropping on the Planet: The Inalienable Right to Snoop? Blum, William Article 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 communi... Edward Snowden's Warning to Canada Snowden, Edward Article 2015 Whistleblower Edward Snowden talks about Bill C-51 and the weak oversight of Canada's intelligence agencies. EFF Launches IFightSurveillance.org and Counter-Surveillance Success Stories: Sources News Release Article 2014 Sites Highlight How Opponents of Mass Surveillance Around the World Lead by Example Eye in the Sky: Surveillance and the Art of Arnold Mesches Wypijewski, Joann Article 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... Eyes Wide Open Article 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... Facebook and the Rise of Anti-Social Media Urie, Rob Article 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 confi... Fake cell phone 'towers' may be spying on Americans' calls, texts Munoz, Eduardo Article 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 c... FBI Ignored Deadly Threat to Occupiers: US Intelligence Machine Instead Plotted with Bankers to Attack Protest Movement Lindorff, Dave Article 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... The FBI: Silent Terror of the Fourth Reich Whitehead, John W. Article 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. The FBI's secret biometrics database they don't want you to see Article 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 getti... The FBI's Secret Rules: President Trump has inherited a vast domestic intelligence agency with extraordinary secret powers. Currier, Cora; McLaughlin, Jenna; Aaronson, Trevor; Speri, Alice Article 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. Fighting Secrecy and the National Security State: An Interview With Birgitta Jonsdottir, the Co-Producer of WikiLeaks's "Collateral Murder" Video Bernstein, Dennis Article 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. First Nations Under Surveillance: Harper Government Prepares for First Nations "Unrest" Diabo, Russell; Pasternak, Shiri Article 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 A... GCHQ and European spy agencies worked together on mass surveillance Borger, Julian Article 2013 Edward Snowden papers unmask close technical cooperation and loose alliance between British, German, French, Spanish and Swedish spy agencies. Genetic Testing of Citizens Is a Backdoor into Total Population Surveillance by Governments and Companies Wallace, Helen Article 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... Die Globale Teleueberwachung des 21. Jahrhunderts Article Es entsteht zur Zeit eine globale Teleuberwachung, die sich von allen ethischen oder diplomatischen Voreingenomenheiten freimacht. Google keeps tracking you even when you specifically tell it not to: Maps, Search won't take no for an answer McCarthy, Kieren Article 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 hal... Government Spying Aims to Silence Us Spritzler, John Article 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 b... GovernmentSources.ca 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 impor... Here come the thought police Spratt, Michael; Moore, Chelsea Article 2014 Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has declared his intention to fast-track legislation expanding CSIS and police powers of “surveillance, detention and arrest.” How California police are tracking your biometric data in the field: Agencies are using mobile fingerprint scanners, tattoo and facial recognition software Brown, J Pat; Maass, Dave Article 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 ... How Drug Courier Profiles Begot Terrorism Watch Lists: The Drug War and the Fourth Amendment Bovard, James Article 2013 More than a million names are now included on the catch-all terrorist watch list maintained by U.S. government agencies. If U.S. Mass Media Were State-Controlled, Would They Look Any Different?: Snowden Coverage Cohen, Jeff Article 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 h... India's UID And The Fantasy Of Dataveillance Karunakaran , Binu Article 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 e... Information Overload: Driving a Stake Through the National Security State Lindorff, Dave Article 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 thi... Inside NSA, Officials Privately Criticize 'Collect It All' Surveillance Maass, Peter Article 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 Nationa... The Intercept 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. Internet Companies: Confusing Consumers for Profit Cordozo, Nate Article 2015 In the age of information, companies are hungry for your data. They want it - even if it means resorting to trickery. Is Lockheed Martin Shadowing You?: How a Giant Weapons Maker Became the New Big Brother Hartung, William D. Article 2011 The increasing influence and role of Lockhead Martin, the giant weapons corporation. Journalistic Malpractice at the Post and the Times: Rejecting the Offer of Evidence of US War Crimes Lindorff, David Article 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. The Last Post Files: Fighting subversion or protecting the government from embarrassment? Weinberg, Paul Article 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 ... Legal Lessons From the Green Scare: When the Constitution is No Obstacle to the FBI Rosenfeld, Ben; Regan, Lauren Article 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. Lessons of the Snowden Revelations: You are the Target! Lopez, Alfredo Article 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... Location Tracking: A Pervasive Problem in Modern Technology Schoen, Seth Article 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 i... The Logic behind Mass Spying: Empire and Cyber Imperialism Petras, James Article 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 threat... Mass Incarceration for Profit Dolinar, Brian; Kilgore, James Article 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 ke... Mass Surveillance is Driven by the Private Sector: The Lesson of Hacking Team's Malware Blunden, Bill Article 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 Tea... Metadata Is More Intrusive Than Direct Listening Of Phone Calls Says Snowden Countercurrents Article 2014 Government monitoring of “metadata” is more intrusive than directly listening to phone calls or reading emails. Mistaking Omniscience for Omnipotence : In a World Without Privacy, There Are No Exemptions for Our Spies Engelhardt, Tom Article 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 reasona... Nature, science & power: Questions need to be asked... Riordon, Michael Website 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. The New Police Surveillance State: The Rising Price of Political Assembly Rosen, David Article 2012 Police are increasingly being deployed to restrict if not prevent mass political actions, especially directed at the banks. No News is Not Good News: Cops Taping Protesters & Journalists Lindorff, Dave Article 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. The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Surveillance Tudge, Robin Book 2011 In the world of CCTV, email and DNA, this book shows the extent to which Big Brother is watching us all. No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State Greenwald, Glenn Book 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 avo... No Safe Harbor: How NSA Spying Undermined U.S. Tech and Europeans' Privacy O'Brien, Danny Article 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 disc... NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users Ball, James; Schneier, Bruce; Greenwald, Glenn Article 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 fun... The NSA Has Effectively Destroyed Internet Privacy: Snowden's Latest Lopez, Alfredo Article 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... NSA learning how to snoop on pacemakers Article 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 d... The Obliteration of Privacy: Snowden and the NSA Kandutsch, Carl E Article 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 c... On Being Watched in the 60s: When Police Power was Embraced as a Form of Government Smith, Sam Article 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 inarti... On Locational Privacy, and How to Avoid Losing it Forever Blumberg, Andrew J.; Eckersley, Peter Article 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 ... Online Rights for Online Workers - Privacy at Work Website Deals with workers' right to privacy in the face of online surveillance by employers. Online Survival Kit Article 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 ov... An Online Tracking Device That’s Virtually Impossible to Block Angwin, Julia Article 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. The Orwellian Re-Branding of 'Mass Surveillance' as Merely 'Bulk Collection' Greenwald, Glenn Article 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 Fi... Orwell's Triumph: How Novels Tell the Truth of Surveillance Frank, Sam Article 2015 Novels may be the best medium for describing a distopian world in which everyone is under constant surveillance. The Other Police State: Private Cops vs. the Public Good Rosen, David Article 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... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 17, 2014: Gaza Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production) Serial Publication (Periodical) 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 S... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 4, 2014 Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production) Article 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... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 30, 2014: Refugees Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production) Serial Publication (Periodical) 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 ... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 29, 2015: Land seizures and land take-overs Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production) Serial Publication (Periodical) 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... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 26, 2015: Ukraine Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production) Serial Publication (Periodical) 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 th... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 12, 2015: Organizing Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production) Serial Publication (Periodical) 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 ... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 3, 2015: Greece and thd debt crisis Diemer, Ulli (editor); Rickwood, Darien Yawching (production) Serial Publication (Periodical) 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 article... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 2, 2016: Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Article 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 appe... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 30, 2017: Affirming life, resisting war, reporting UFOs Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 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 chan... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 22, 2017: Secrecy and Power Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2017 Secrecy is a weapon the powerful use against their enemies: us. This issue of Other Voices explores the relationship of secrecy and power. The Police State is Real: It Has Happened Here Roberts, Paul Craig Article 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 concen... Police State: US Government-Funded Database Created to Track "Subversive Propaganda" Online MacEgan, Matthew Article 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. Political activist Ken Stone takes CSIS to task for alleged harassment Weinberg, Paul Article 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. Political Persecution in Puerto Rico: Uncovering Secret Files: Against The Current vol. 85 Ayala, César Article 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 exte... Preparing for a Digital 9/11 Greenberg, Karen Article 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... Profiled: From Radio to Porn, British Spies Track Web Users' Online Identities Gallagher, Ryan Article 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 (Gov... Radio Frequency ID Removes Freedom Article 2006 Radio Frequency ID violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and is part of the stealthy forging of a police state. Real-Time Face Recognition Threatens to Turn Cops' Body Cameras Into Surveillance Machines Kofman, Ava Article 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 thes... Reflections on a whistleblower: Two years after Snowden Tzabiras, Marianna Article 2015 Two years after Snowden, the international state of surveillance and the ranks of whistleblowers both continue to grow.
The Return of COINTELPRO?: Time to Target the Real Terrorists McNamara, Tom Article 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... Revealed: How DOJ Gagged Google over Surveillance of WikiLeaks Volunteer Gallagher, Ryan Article 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. Rights and Freedoms State Fear The Global attack on rights: New Internationalist March 2005 Serial Publication (Periodical) 2005 A look into rights and freedoms, the connection to occupation, and their state in different parts of the world. Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower Blum, William Book 2005 A mini-encyclopedia of the numerous un-humanitarian acts perpetrated by the United States since the end of the Second World War. Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada From the Fenians to Fortress America Whitaker, Reg; Kealey, Gregory S.; Parnaby, Andrew Book 2012 A history of political policing in Canada. The Servility of the Satellites: The Snowden Affair and the Destruction of Effective Democracy in Europe Johnstone, Diana Article 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 Preside... Snowden leak: MI5 has gathered so much data it may actually be missing 'life-saving intelligence' Article 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 docum... Snowden, Surveillance And The Secret State Cromwell, David; Edwards, David Article 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. Snowden's NSA Leaks Catalogued In First Searchable Database Of The Surveillance Documents Halleck, Thomas Article 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. A Social History of Wiretaps: Memory's Half-Life Price, David Article 2013 American’s century-long distrust of electronic surveillance is shifting to Americans accepting and internalizing new levels of state surveillance. The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror Parenti, Christian; Rossetti, Chip (eds.) Book 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... 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 Lee, Forest Book 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. Sources HotLink - June 30, 2016 Serial Publication (Periodical) 2016 Articles about the FBI and the information it gathers, Donald Trump and the media, and the role of pharmaceutical companies in suppressing information. Spies Hacked Computers Thanks to Sweeping Secret Warrants, Aggressively Stretching U.K. Law Fishman, Andrew; Greenwald, Glenn Article 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 th... The Spy Who Fired Me: The human costs of workplace monitoring Kaplan, Esther Article 2015 Kaplan discusses the growing practice of employers monitoring the internet use of their employees. Spying by the Numbers: Hundreds of Thousands Subject to Government Surveillance and No Real Protection Quigley, Bill Article 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 sho... Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance Boghosian, Heidi Book 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. Submission to the MacDonald Commissionon the R.C.M.P Article The authors of this submission are concerned with the presence of the RCMP Security Services at events such as trade union meetings. Surveillance and the Corporate State: Spying, Control and Murder Under the Imperial Presidency Urie, Rob Article 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.’ Surveillance Capitalism: Monopoly-Finance Capital, the Military-Industrial Complex, and the Digital Age Foster, John Bellamy; McChesney, Robert W. Article 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, fol... Surveillance Self-Defense Website 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 surveill... Surveillance USA: NSA and the PRISM Project Kampmark, Binoy Article 2013 The government is merrily going about its business of keeping tabs on you in virtually every conceivable way. Ten Steps You Can Take Right Now Against Internet Surveillance O'Brien, Danny Article 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 ... The Terrifying World of Electronic Monitoring: From Drone Strikes to Martha Stewart Kilgore, James Article 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 d... 13 Things the Government is Trying to Keep Secret From You: Constitutional Black Out Quigley, Bill Article 2013 The President and the Government are intentionally keeping massive amounts of information about surveillance secret. Thirteen Ways Government Tracks Us Quigley, Bill Article 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 peopl... Thousands Join Legal Fight Against UK Surveillance — And You Can, Too Gallagher, Ryan Article 2015 Thousands of people are signing up to join an unprecedented legal campaign against the United Kingdom’s leading electronic surveillance agency. The Thrust Toward Opacity: Shh! It's a Secret! Glickman Gene Article 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 intellig... Top-Secret Document Reveals NSA Spied on Porn Habits as Part of Plan to Discredit 'Radicalizers' Article 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 a... Two out of Three Investigative Journalists in US Believe They're Being Spied On Lazare, Sarah Article 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 wa... Uber Plans to Track Users Should Not Be Allowed, Says Privacy Group Chatterjee, Pratap Article 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... Uncivil Obedience: The Tactics and Tales of a Democratic Agitator Borovoy, A. Alan Book 1991 How to push for social change without breaking the law. US Government Systematically Spying on Citizens Fisher, William Article 2010 The US government has been systematically violating the privacy rights of U.S. citizens.
Very Mention of Snowden's Name Makes Prosecutors Tremble Froomkin, Dan Article 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 ev... Le Viol du Courier/Violation of the Mail 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 ma... Vodafone Reveals Existence of Secret Wires that Allow State Surveillance Garside, Juliette Article 2014 Wires allow agencies to listen to or record live conversations, in what privacy campaigners are calling a 'nightmare scenario'. A Walking Tour of New York's Massive Surveillance Network Currier, Cora Article 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 ant... War Against the People: Israel, The Palestinians and Global Pacification Halper, Jeff Book 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... The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State Harris, Shane Book 2010 An exploration of how and why the American government increasingly spies on its own citizens. West Germany: Censorship and Repression in the Model State Cutajar, Mario Article 1979 In West Germany, repression is now 'democratically' sanctioned and seen as a model for other countries to adopt. Whose National Security?: Canadian State Surveillance and the Creation of Enemies Kinsman, Gary; Buse, Dieter K.; Stedman, Mercedes Article 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 sovereignist... Why Do We Expose Ourselves? Taylor, Astra Article 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 Brothe... WikiLeaks Vault 7 Reveals CIA Cyberwar and the Battleground of Democracy Hayase, Nozomi Article 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 fr... With Power of Social Media Growing, Police Now Monitoring and Criminalizing Online Speech Greenwald, Glenn Article 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, "... The World Google Controls and Surveillance Capitalism Vigo, Julian Article 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. XKEYSCORE: NSA's Google for the World's Private Communications Marquis-Boire, Morgan; Greenwald, Glenn; Lee, Micah Article 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 ... Youth Subdued: 8 Ways Young Americans Have Been Dominated Levine, Bruce E. Article 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 ... Connexions Directory of Groups & WebsitesAK Press AK Press is a worker-run collective that publishes and distributes radical books, visual and audio media, and other mind-altering material. We're small: a dozen people who work long hours for short mo... Corporate Watch Corporate Watch is a not-for-profit co-operative providing critical information on the social and environmental impacts of corporations and capitalism. Since 1996 our research, journalism, analysis an... Sources Experts & SpokespersonsSources LibraryBitTorrent study finds most file-sharers are monitored 2012 Anyone using file-sharing service BitTorrent to download the latest film or music release is likely to be monitored, UK-based researchers suggest. A Birmingham University study indicates that a file-s... Companies that cooperate with dictatorships must be sanctioned Sources News Release 2011 Reporters Without Borders condemns the criminal cooperation that exists between many western companies, especially those operating in the new technology area, and authoritarian regimes. Covert Entry Spies, Lies and Crimes Inside Canada's Secret Service Mitrovica, Andrew 2002 A glimpse into the inner workings of Canada's secret service. CSE monitors millions of Canadian emails to government Hildebrandt, Amber; Seglins, Dave; Pereira, Michael 2015 Canada's electronic spy agency collects millions of emails from Canadians and stores them for "days to months" while trying to filter out malware and other attacks on government computer networks. Devices that track, spy on cellphones found at Montreal's Trudeau airport Radio-Canada's Brigitte Bureau 2017 CBC Radio-Canada investigation already found electronic surveillance devices near Parliament Hill. EFF Demands Release of More Secret Surveillance Court Rulings Sources News Release 2014 In a continuing campaign to uncover the government's secret interpretations of the surveillance laws underlying the National Security Agency (NSA)'s spying programs, the Electronic Frontier Foundation... Electronic Frontier Foundation to Court: There's No Doubt the Government Destroyed NSA Spying Evidence Sources News Release 2014 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) told a federal court today that there was no doubt that the government has destroyed years of evidence of NSA spying -- the government itself has admitted to i... Email privacy Wikipedia article 2012 Email privacy is the broad topic dealing with issues of unauthorized access and inspection of electronic mail. This unauthorized access can happen while an email is in transit, as well as when it is s... For journalists, danger lurking in your email O'Brien, Danny 2012 Citizen Lab provided a disturbing look into the likely use of a commercial surveillance program, FinFisher, to remotely invade and control the computers of Bahraini activists. After the software insta... Free Speech Groups Issue New Guide to the International 'Necessary & Proportionate Principles' Sources News Release 2014 EFF and ARTICLE 19 Urges Governments to Preserve Fundamental Freedoms in the Age of Mass Surveillance French surveillance law passes National Assembly, but it's not the last word Marthoz, Jean-Paul 2015 After the Chalie Hebdo and Hyper Catcher killings, the French National Assembly authorized clandestine intelligence operations for mobile devices and the internet. While the french patriot act has alr... Google voice search records and keeps conversations people have around their phones - but the files can be deleted Griffin, Andrew 2016 How google search can record and store conversations picked up by a phone's microphone, as well as how to prevent this and delete the stored files. Google's new advertising program tracks offline line shoppers, violates privacy Varlin, Josh 2017 The privacy watchdog Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a formal complaint against Google alleging that the company's new advertising program violates consumer privacy. How can you protect yourself from online snooping? Sources News Release 2013 Reporters Without Borders has published an Online Survival Kit on its WefightCensorship.org website that has tools and practical advice that will allow you to protect your communications and data. How the Government Secretly Demanded the IP Address of Every Visitor to Political News Site Indymedia.us 2009 Secrecy surrounds law enforcement's communications surveillance practices like a dense fog. Particularly shrouded in secrecy are government demands issued under 18 U.S.C. § 2703 of the Stored Communic... How the US government secretly reads your email Brooke, Heather 2011 Secret orders forcing Google and Sonic to release a WikiLeaks volunteer's email reveal the scale of US government snooping. Huge Global Coalition Stands Against Unchecked Surveillance Sources News Release 2013 More than 100 organizations from across the globe are taking a stand against unchecked communications surveillance, calling for the governments around the world to follow international human rights l... Human rights organisations alarmed by bill that will give surveillance agencies dangerous new powers Sources News Release 2015 Privacy International, Amnesty International, FIDH, the French League for Human Rights and Reporters Without Borders are alarmed by the expansive surveillance powers to be granted to surveillance agen... Human Rights Watch Sues DEA Over Bulk Collection of Americans' Telephone Records Sources News Release 2015 EFF Lawsuit Challenges Drug Enforcement Administration Surveillance of International Call Records I, spy: Edward Snowden in exile Rusbridger, Alan; MacAskill, Ewen 2014 The Guardian interviews Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who leaked thousands of classified documents to media outlets. Snowden shares his views on the events that have occured since his exil... IFJ Condemns U.S. Justice Dept for Secretly Gathering Associated Press Records Sources News Release 2013 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined its affiliate, the Newspaper Guild-CWA, in condemning the U.S. Justice Department for secretly gathering the phone records of Associated Pr... Journalists Welcome European Call to Review Anti-Terrorism Laws Sources News Release 2009 Ministers of the human rights network of the Council of Europe have called on their governments to review anti-terrorism laws in the face of strong criticism from journalists that some laws are in pra... Keystone Cops Sex Registry Cain, Patrick 1998 Washroom sex might show up on Ontario's new offender list, but real pedophiles will probably go free. Met police using surveillance system to monitor mobile phones Gallagher, Ryan; Syal, Rejeev 2011 Civil liberties group raises concerns over Met police purchase of technology to track public handsets over a targeted area. Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages Greenwald, Glenn, et. al 2013 Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users' communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company's own encryp... New Documents and Reports Confirm AT&T and NSA's Longstanding Surveillance Partnership Rumold, Mark 2015 Reports today in the New York Times and ProPublica confirm what EFF's Jewel v. NSA lawsuit has claimed since 2008 -- that the NSA and AT&T have collaborated to build a domestic surveillance infrastruc... NSA surveillance may cause breakup of internet, warn experts Taylor, Matthew; Hopkins, Nick; Kiss, Jemima 2013 Internet specialists highlight moves by Brazil, Germany and India towards creating separate networks in order to block spying. Obama defiant over NSA revelations ahead of summit with Chinese premier Ackerman, Spencer; Roberts, Dan 2013 President says oversight of NSA surveillance programme should be left to Congress in comments criticising media 'hype.' Old New York Police Surveillance Is Found, Forcing Big Brother Out of Hiding Goldstein, Joseph 2016 From the mid-1950s to the early 1970s, police surveillance of political organizations in New York was extensive enough to require more than half a million index cards, simply to catalog and cross-refe... Pakistan: Intelligence agency sought to tap all communications traffic, documents reveal Rice, Mathew 2015 Every government seems to want to spy in Pakistan. The US National Security Agency (NSA) tapped the fibre optic cables landing in Karachi, among others, and used 55 million phone records harvested fro... Police log 'domestic extremists' and keep database on activists Forces survey and file details of peaceful protests and political activities Lewis, Paul; Evans, Rob; Taylor, Matthew 2009 'Domestic Extremists' are persons involved in political meetings and protests who are photographed and added to a national database by the UK police. This surveillance falls under the purview of "ter... Raleigh police are asking Google to provide user data for all people near crime scenes 2018 Police in Raleigh, North Carolina, have presented Google with warrants to obtain data from mobile phones from not just specific suspects who were in a crime scene area, but from the mobile phones of a... Reporters Without Borders and Torservers.net, partners against online surveillance and censorship Sources News Release 2014 Reporters Without Borders and Torservers.net have joined forces to create and maintain 250 additional relays for the Tor network. San Diego's Facial Recognition Program Shows Why We Need Records on Police Use of Mobile Biometric Technology Maass, David 2015 The New York Times has a story out on how San Diego police use mobile facial recognition devices in the field, including potentially on non-consenting residents who aren't suspected of a crime. One ac... Seizure of AP phone records condemned as 'grave violation' Sources News Release 2013 Reporters Without Borders regards the US Department of Justice's seizure of the records of thousands of Associated Press phone calls as an "extremely grave violation of freedom of information." Software Meant to Fight Crime Is Used to Spy on Dissidents Perlroth, Nicole 2012 Morgan Marquis-Boire works as a Google engineer and Bill Marczak is earning a Ph.D. in computer science. But this summer, the two men have been moonlighting as detectives, chasing an elusive surveilla... The Stasi could only dream of such data Britain, the birthplace of liberalism, has become the database state Ash, Timothy Garton 2008 As technology increases the flow of stored data about individual actions, assurances of the "right to informational self-determination" must be hard won from governments. Government surveillance of ci... Surveillance company Hacking Team's relationships with repressive regimes exposed Privacy International 2015 A 400 gigabyte trove of internal documents belonging to surveillance company Hacking Team has been released online. Hacking team sells intrusive hacking tools that have allegedly been used by some of ... Surveillance firms spied on campaign groups for big companies, leak shows Evans, Rob; Jones, Meirion 2017 British Airways, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Porsche are among five large companies that have been identified as having paid corporate intelligence firms to monitor political groups that challenged... Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity Monahan, Torin 2010 Threats of terrorism, natural disaster, identity theft, job loss, illegal immigration, and even biblical apocalypse — all are perils that trigger alarm in people today. Although there may be a factual... UN slams UK surveillance law, calls for privacy reforms in Canada, France and Macedonia 2015 In yet another blow to the UK's surveillance proponents, the UN Human Rights Committee has criticised the British legal regime governing the interception of communications, observing that it allows fo... Unmasking the Five-Eyed monster, a global and secret intelligence-sharing regime 2013 Privacy International is proud to announce our new project, Eyes Wide Open, which aims to pry open the Five Eyes arrangement and bring it under the rule of law. Who's the true enemy of internet freedom - China, Russia, or the US? Morozov, Evgeny 2015 Beijing and Moscow are rightly chastised for restricting their citizens' online access – but it's the US that is now even more aggressive in asserting its digital sovereignty. Why you shouldn't trust Geek Squad ever again The government reportedly pays Geek Squad technicians to dig through your PC Patrizio, Andy 2017 The Orange County Weekly reports that the company's repair technicians routinely search devices brought in for repair for files that could earn them $500 reward as FBI informants. That, ladies and gen... Will the government's counter-extremist programme criminalise dissent? Kundnani, Arun 2015 From 1 July, a broad range of public bodies - from nursery schools to optometrists - will be legally obliged to participate in the U.S. government’s Prevent policy to identify would-be extremists. Und... From the Connexions ArchivesIntelligentSearch.ca Website 2017 A web portal featuring topics related to research and the Internet. 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