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25 Oct 09

Watching me watching you - Le Monde diplomatique - English edition

  • Formal surveillance means one CCTV camera per 14 citizens in the UK
  • Yet, the actual extent of commercial surveillance on Facebook remains murky. According to their privacy policy, Facebook retains the right to collect information about their members from other sources such as newspapers, instant messaging services and blogs “to provide you with more useful information and a more personalised experience”. By using Facebook, you also consent to have your personal data transferred to, and processed in, the US. Users are not notified when and how their data is used. In 2008 the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, a privacy group, filed a complaint against Facebook for violating 22 ∞counts of Canadian privacy laws
20 Jul 09

Al Jazeera English - Middle East - Iran internet law sparks suspicion

  • According to Press TV, the cyber law would provide internet users with "more security", as internet service providers are required to save all data sent and received by their clients for at least three months.
12 Apr 09

An Olympian Scandal

  • The admirable outcry against warrantless eavesdropping on American
    citizens would be more admirable if Americans also understood the costs
    of eavesdropping on foreigners. On February 2 three Greek ministers held
    a press conference to reveal what the government had kept secret for
    nearly a year: that a sophisticated, self-concealing software parasite
    had been recording mobile phone conversations of the Greek prime
    minister, his wife, the foreign minister, the defense minister and 100
    other Vodafone subscribers from before the 2004 Athens Olympics until
    March 2005, when the bug was removed.



    A Vodafone network manager, engaged to be married and with no known
    personal problems, hanged himself at his home one day after the bugging
    was originally uncovered last March. He was one of a handful of
    employees with the access required to install such software. Vodafone
    firmly denied that the death had any connection to the scandal. No one
    believes the company.

Jacqui calls Vodafone man to run massive snoop database

  • A senior Vodafone network architecture specialist has been appointed by Jacqui Smith to draw up proposals for a multibillion pound central silo of communications data, amid a Whitehall row about the future of the project

Vodafone Scandal

  • The Karamanlis government had learned from mobile telephone
    provider Vodafone Greece back in March 2005 that some high-tech entity, apparently nervous about Greek security preparations for the
    2004 Olympic Games, had been listening to the mobile phone conversations
    of Greek officials and various activists and Middle Easterners from the
    summer of 2004
  • "Ta
    Nea    " (headline story of March 2, 2006) found anonymous sources in Vodafone and the Greek
    government to assert CIA responsibility. Other agencies seem more
    likely.
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30 Mar 09

London cops reach new heights of anti-terror poster stupidity - Boing Boing

The London police have bested their own impressive record for insane and stupid anti-terrorism posters with a new range of signs advising Londoners to go through each others' trash-bins looking for "suspicious" chemical bottles, and to report on one another for "studying CCTV cameras."

www.boingboing.net/...london-cops-reach-ne.html - Preview

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