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Surveillance

GCHQ Is Building A Stasi Archive On Steroids: Why Are People Still Surprised?

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

The GCHQ is profiling every single Internet user, according to new Snowden files released by The Intercept. At this point, the story should no longer be that surveillance agencies are…

Categories: General Privacy News, Surveillance

European Parliament Gets Everything Right In New Report: Condemns Mass Surveillance, Shames Complicity With NSA, And Demands Encryption, Net Neutrality, Free/Open Software

Updated on Aug 5, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

The European Parliament just adopted a report that goes way further in the right direction than anything seen before from any legislative body. It condemns mass surveillance in the strongest…

Categories: Encryption, General Privacy News, Surveillance

Not Long Ago, We Shot Automated Surveillance (Literally). When Did We Start Accepting It?

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

When automated speed traps were introduced to Sweden in the 1990s, they were shot. Literally. Citizens were so outraged at the idea of being automatically fined, the speed cameras were…

Categories: General Privacy News, Surveillance

U.S. Ruling On Cellphone Tracking Comes Closer To Analog-Equivalent Rights

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

This week, an appellate court in the United States ruled that cellphones may not be tracked without a warrant. It's a good ruling for privacy and one that comes significantly…

Categories: General Privacy News, Surveillance

Snooping Section Of US PATRIOT Act Has Expired. Now What?

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

As the US Senate failed to renew the mass surveillance section of the US Patriot act, as of less than an hour ago, it has formally expired. This means that…

Categories: General Privacy News, Surveillance

A Private Net Is Just As Fundamental A Right As Freedom Of Speech

Updated on May 7, 2015 by Rick Falkvinge

This week, new invasive spying bills passed in Canada and in France. Both of them, as usual, go beyond what has been seen before in their audacity. But a private…

Categories: General Privacy News, Surveillance

Wiretapping Today Just Doesn’t Mean What The Word Meant In The 1990s, So Don’t Fall For That Lie

Updated on Nov 18, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

Many legislators and surveillance hawks are framing an extensive real-time bulk wiretapping of the Internet as "just an adaptation to new technology", and try to pretend it doesn't mean anything…

Categories: General Privacy News, Surveillance

Tax Authority Demands Customer Data From Bitcoin Exchange: Demands Trackability Of Everybody’s Past, Present, And Future

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

The Swedish Tax Authority has demanded the full customer transaction history, specifically including customers' wallet addresses, from the small Swedish bitcoin exchange BTC-X. This demand comes without any individual suspicion…

Categories: Cryptocurrency, General Privacy News, Surveillance

“In This Way, Our Work Will Become Legal”: Don’t Count Your Chickens Over The GCHQ Verdict On Surveillance

Updated on Aug 3, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

Last week, there was a verdict in a UK court saying that the GCHQ had indeed broken the law with its bulk surveillance. While many privacy advocates rejoiced, so did…

Categories: General Privacy News, Surveillance

Charlie Hebdo: And Out Come The Surveillance Services Demanding More Budget, Powers

Updated on Jan 11, 2015 by Rick Falkvinge

Following the terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris, everybody and their brother have come out in support of freedom of speech. The problem is, they don't even…

Categories: General Privacy News, Surveillance
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