Tag: surveillance

• (via The Washington Post)

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  14/07/2014

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  dragnet, NSA, privacy, Snowden, surveillance

• “U.S. companies including Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc. are all coordinating with the PRISM programme to monitor China,” the People’s Daily said on its official microblog. “To resist the naked Internet hegemony, we will draw up international regulations, and strengthen technology safeguards, but we will also severely punish the pawns of the villain. The priority…

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  17/06/2014

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  china, espionage, social media, surveillance, usa

• “Above-top-secret details of Britain’s covert surveillance programme – including the location of a clandestine British base tapping undersea cables in the Middle East – have so far remained secret, despite being leaked by fugitive NSA sysadmin Edward Snowden. Government pressure has meant that some media organisations, despite being in possession of these facts, have declined…

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  17/06/2014

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  intelligence, middle east, Snowden, surveillance, UK

• According to a leaked document in which technology companies are invited to offer their services, Egypt’s interior ministry says it wants the ability to scan Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and Viber in real-time for usage that might “harm public security or incite terrorism”. The ministry asks the unnamed companies for a system that could dredge up…

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  17/06/2014

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  egypt, privacy, security, social media, surveillance, terrorism

• The perpass list is for IETF discussion of pervasive monitoring. IETF specifications need to be designed to protect against pervasive monitoring where possible. This list is intended for technical discussions attempting to meet that goal. Discussion is limited to specific technical proposals for improvements in IETF protocols, their implementation or deployment and to IETF process…

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  05/06/2014

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  engineering, IETF, privacy, software, standards, surveillance