"– FRA avlyssnar allt. Precis allt. Med FRA-lagen försöker de rättfärdiga vad de gjort hela tiden. Han gick också direkt in på piratpolitik (vilket även är nyckelpolitik för flera nyckelspelare i både röda och blå laget — men som tyvärr inte har sina lagk
"Australian police have arrested IT security professional and self-proclaimed leader of an international hacking ring Matthew Flannery after he allegedly infiltrated a government website this month."
Indymedia case , autumn 2009: "officials in the Bush and Obama Justice Departments tried to get the IP addresses of every visitor to Indymedia.us, a left-wing, anticapitalist news site. When the site’s administrators wanted to share the story with the Ele
May 2008. The document is the first evidence that the networking giant has marketed its routers to China specifically as a tool of repression. It reinforces the double-edged role that Americans’ technological ingenuity plays in the rest of the world. Com
RT 18.4.: "The controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act has been approved by the House of Representatives. One of the Congressman evoked Monday's deadly bombings in Boston as a reason to pass it. RT America's website producer, Andrew Blake is closely following the debates over the bill "
NYT article about Clearview AI Inc. and other face recognition tech companies including Chinese and South Korean ones , by Kashmir Hill, from Oct 2021. Testing f-r tech at NIST.
Yana Paskova for The ChronicleEben Moglen, a law professor at Columbia U., is developing the Freedom Box, a personal server that makes data harder to intercept. "The Net we have is increasingly monitored, measured, and surveilled everywhere by everybody a
There isn’t some radical shift in norms taking place. What’s changing is the opportunity to be public and the potential gain from doing so. " " The best way to maintain privacy as a public figure is to give folks the impression that everything about you
The new compromise on the draft data law, seen by EURACTIV, further refines the protection of trade secrets and clarifies the relationship with data protection rules and the application of the cloud-switching provisions.
Laurie Penny The Guardian, Friday 3 January 2014 "The worst thing about the porn filter, though, is not that it accidentally blocks a lot of useful information but that it blocks information at all. With minimal argument, a Conservative-led government has given private firms permission to decide what websites we may and may not access. This sets a precedent for state censorship on an enormous scale – all outsourced to the private sector, of course, so that the coalition does not have to hold up its hands to direct responsibility for shutting down freedom of speech." - BT's opt-in filtering system , covers "sites with information about illegal manipulation of electronic devices [and] distribution of software"
The press has lost the plot over the Snowden revelations. The fact is that the net is finished as a global network and that US firms' cloud services cannot be trusted John Naughton The Observer, Sunday 28 July 2013 While the press concentrates on the furore surrounding Edward Snowden's search for political asylum, it has forgotten the importance of his revelations "The "human interest" angle has trumped the real story, which is what the NSA revelations tell us about how our networked world actually works and the direction in which it is heading."