The New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs has released the full text of the ubiquitous Trans Pacific Trade Partnership deal, which the public has been rallying against for months now.
By Ashley Gorski | ACLU | October 24, 2015 A federal district court yesterday dismissed Wikimedia v. NSA, a lawsuit brought by the ACLU on behalf of a broad group of educational, legal, human rights, and media organizations whose communications are swept up by the NSA’s unprecedented Internet dragnet. Our lawsuit concerns the NSA’s “upstream” surveillance, […]
RT | October 21, 2015 After a delay, cybersecurity legislation dreaded by privacy advocates and relentlessly pursued by national security officials, known as CISA, will get a vote on the Senate floor “in a couple of days,” a top sponsoring senator anticipates. The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015, also known as CISA, is as […]
RT | October 21, 2015 After a delay, cybersecurity legislation dreaded by privacy advocates and relentlessly pursued by national security officials, known as CISA, will get a vote on the Senate floor “in a couple of days,” a top sponsoring senator anticipates. The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015, also known as CISA, is as […]
The NSA surveillance program is global -- that's why William Binney flew to Munich, Germany to film tonight's interview, the first of many exclusive videos.The post The National Security Agency Interviews You Were Waiting For appeared first on The Anti-Media.
by Gaius PubliusIf you're like me and work on a Windows-based system, you get these popups from time to time offering to "upgrade" you to Windows 10, Microsoft's latest and greatest, for free. Normally these upgrades cost $100 or so. Me, I'm still on Windows 7, since like many I consider Windows 8 both half-baked for professional use and a data-suck for entertainment use.
By Nathaniel J. Turner | ACLU | July 28, 2015 An impressive coalition has formed to oppose a new surveillance bill masquerading as cybersecurity legislation. Privacy and civil liberties organizations, free market groups, and others from across the political spectrum are joining this week in a common chorus call: Stop CISA. Proponents of CISA — […]
RT | July 14, 2015 Civil liberties NGO Privacy International (PI) has criticized a report on state surveillance, calling for improved regulatory oversight rather than self-reporting by spy agencies. The civil liberties NGO was commenting on a Royal United Service Institute (RUSI) report published on Monday. Titled ‘A Democratic License to Operate’, the study was […]
RT | June 30, 2015 Trade unionists are demanding a full inquiry into ‘very troubling allegations’ of police spying on activists and blacklisted workers. Home Secretary Theresa May has already set up an inquiry headed by Lord Justice Pitchford into allegations of police surveillance operations against activists, but its full remit is not yet known. […]
