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Surveillance

Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) lobbied the FCC for permission to spy on you

Updated on Aug 3, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Your Internet service provider's (ISP) ability to not only spy on you, but to profit on that spying, has been upheld by the FCC. Ajit Pai, President Trump's pick for the…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Researchers show it’s possible to steal someone’s password using WiFi signals

Updated on Jul 19, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Wifi hotspots can be used to steal your passwords - this is a warning almost as old as public wireless hotspots are. However, there is a new theoretical attack vector…

Categories: General Privacy News, Surveillance

Told you so: Airport-style identity checks coming to train travel

Updated on Jul 29, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

Several European countries will start requiring photo ID from passengers to ride trains, similar to airport identity checks. The requirement concerns the high-speed Thalys and Eurostar services in Europe, with…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Despite promises, metadata gathered by Australian mass surveillance may be made available to civil litigators, not just law enforcement

Updated on Jul 16, 2020 by Caleb Chen

Australia, one of many countries that conducts mass surveillance with mandatory metadata logging laws, is planning to make your private information available in civil proceedings. When Australia initially passed the…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

A French man has been sentenced to two years in jail because of the contents of his internet history

Updated on Aug 5, 2021 by Caleb Chen

The contents of your internet history are more than enough to send you to jail in France. A French man has been sentenced to two years in jail for visiting…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

The opportunity cost of mass surveillance is lost innovation and jobs

Updated on Jul 30, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

Surveillance kills jobs and drives investment and innovation elsewhere. Lost among the common talking points of liberty, human rights, and Big Brother, there's a much more economic effect when you…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

A country with perfect law enforcement based on perfect surveillance will stop dead in its tracks

Updated on Aug 6, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

Britain passed the Snooper's Charter, as expected. Legislators worldwide are making the crucial mistake of seeing privacy as an individual luxury, instead of as a collective necessity: a country that…

Categories: General Privacy News, Surveillance

Nvidia has made your GPU the newest spying device in your PC

Updated on Nov 18, 2021 by Tyson O'Ham

The newest Windows driver update from graphics silicon manufacturer nVidia comes with more than just game optimizations and bug-fixes (and disappointingly little of those at that.) If you have an…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Surveillance

Mass surveillance: First it was for terrorism, then it was for drug trade, and now it’s for unlicensed driving

Updated on Aug 3, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

As mass surveillance was introduced, we were promised it was only for combating terrorism and violent uprisings. Then, it was used mostly to combat illegal drug trade. As the surveillance…

Categories: General Privacy News, Surveillance

AT&T actually sells leads to DEA and local law enforcement using Project Hemisphere

Updated on Aug 6, 2020 by Caleb Chen

AT&T has been running a for-profit mass surveillance program, called Project Hemisphere, since 2007. Everybody already knows about AT&T cooperation with NSA mass surveillance metadata database... This is a separate program…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance
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