Tag Archives: internet spying
Legal news website shuts over government spying intrusion
An award-winning legal news website has stopped work, saying it cannot operate under current US surveillance policies. Pamela Jones, Groklaw’s founder, cited the alleged US practice of screening emails from abroad and storing messages “enciphered or otherwise thought to contain secret meaning” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23768810 “There is no way to continue doing Groklaw, not long term, which […]
Google spying on open Wi-Fi networks
Google has been fined 145,000 euros (£125,000) by German data regulators for illegally recording information from unsecured wi-fi networks. “one of the biggest known data protection violations in history”. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22252506 “Among the information gathered in the drive-bys were significant amounts of personal data of varying quality. For example, emails, passwords, photos and chat protocols were […]
US House of Representatives try to push CISPA
A tweaked version of the Cyberintelligence Sharing and Protection Act, known as Cispa, is expected to be voted on in the House this week. The Center for Democracy and Technology said it could cede too much control to a military intelligence agency, while the American Civil Liberties Union organized a petition drive warning that the […]
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