Australian Government Scrambles to Authorize Mass Surveillance
image source Jeremy Malcolm Electronic Frontier Foundation This week, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott used recent terrorist threats as the backdrop of a dire warning…
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How to Start a Student Group To Protect Your Digital Privacy
April Glaser Electronic Frontier Foundation Watch for it. This year student protest and resistance to mass surveillance might be bursting at the seams. The Internet,…
New Video Exposes Canadian Spy Agency’s Unchecked Surveillance Program
OpenMedia.ca Katitza Rodriguez Electronic Frontier Foundation The Canadian government’s surveillance of innocent Canadians is secretive, expensive, and out-of-control—that’s the message of a new video launched…
Nowhere To Hide As Minority Report-Style Facial Recognition Technology Spreads Across America
Dees Illustration Michael Snyder Activist Post What is our society going to look like when our faces are being tracked literally everywhere that we go? …
How Wearable Smart Tech Will Control Your Life
Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton Activist Post Privacy? What’s that? IF you take your cues from propaganda outlets like TIME, wearable technology is what’s next…
17 Fake Cell Phone Towers Discovered Across U.S.
Chris Carrington Activist Post Now why would someone want to erect fake cell phone towers across the United States? Who would have the money and…
Newly Revealed NSA Program ICREACH Extends the NSA’s Reach Even Further
Nadia Kayyali Electronic Frontier Foundation Turns out, the DEA and FBI may know what medical conditions you have, whether you are having an affair, where…
New Social Media Surveillance Program Violates Privacy to Keep You Safe
By Joe Wright The latest press release from Virginia Tech University, posted in full below, uses a familiar sales pitch which asserts that the only…
Is Big Brother spying on your computer – with your own cell phone?
Graywolf Activist Post As you know if you’ve been reading my blog for a while, I’ve written several articles on OPSEC. This one hits a…
EFF, ACLU Demolish “It’s Just Metadata” Claim in NSA Spying Appeal
Americans Deserve Full Protection of the Fourth Amendment for their Telephone Records, Groups Argue Activist Post The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil…
Spy Tech “Stress Camera” Scans Crowds For Suicide Bombers
Kevin Samson Activist Post In addition to the myriad ways we are being spied on by surveillance cameras, biometrics and in the digital world, scientists…
5 Big Brother Technologies for Tracking and Surveilling Children
Terrence Newton Activist Post Without much of a mentionable public debate about the implementation of police state surveillance and tracking technologies in our society, we are…
Shopper Tracking Device Embedded in Store Mannequins
Iconeme John Galt Activist Post The search for predictive behavior technology to target shopping habits has been a contentious one in the United States. Several…
Australian Proposal Would Require Suspicionless Domestic Spying by ISPs
Nadia Kayyali and Jeremy Malcolm Electronic Frontier Foundation The Australian government announced new anti-terrorism measures this week, in response to the alleged involvement of Australian…