Net Neutrality Upended?
Joelle Tessler Huffington Post Google Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. are close to finalizing a proposal for so-called “network neutrality” rules, which would dictate how…
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Project Vigilant and the government/corporate destruction of privacy
Glenn Greenwald Salon Forbes‘ technology writer Andy Greenberg reports that at the Defcon Security Conference yesterday, an individual named Chet Uber appeared with revelations about the case of accused…
Wikileaks Editor Interrogated by U.S. Border Police
Jacob Appelbaum “All governments are in a continuum of tyranny” Stephen Foley The Independent A senior volunteer for Wikileaks in the US has been detained,…
Shadowy Spy Group Building Dossiers On Internet Users For Feds
Project Vigilant: New Face of Total Information Awareness Goes Public Paul Joseph Watson InfoWars An organization that tracks 250 million IP addresses a day has…
Stealthy Government Contractor Monitors Internet, Worked with Wikileaks Informant
Andy Greenberg Forbes A semi-secret government contractor that calls itself Project Vigilant surfaced at the Defcon security conference Sunday with a series of revelations: that…
The Web’s New Gold Mine: Your Secrets
A Journal Investigation finds that one of the fastest-growing businesses on the Internet is the business of spying on consumers. First in a series. Julia…
Downloading Humans: The Hive Group Philosophy
Activist Post Big Brother has turned monitoring the Internet into big business, which grows daily as the controllers wave the false flag of cybersecurity. Since…
Breaking a Promise on Surveillance
New York Times It is just a technical matter, the Obama administration says: We just need to make a slight change in a law to…
Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring
Noah Shachtman Wired The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and…
Private Details of 100 Million Facebook Users Published Online
MSNBC The personal details of 100 million Facebook users have been collected and published online in a downloadable file, meaning they will now be unable…
Privacy Concerns: Proposal would grant FBI access to Internet Records WITHOUT a Court Order
Ellen Nakashima Washington Post The Obama administration is seeking to make it easier for the FBI to compel companies to turn over records of an…
‘Minority Report’ Technology Used by Police to Predict Crimes
Software that can predict when and where future violent crimes will be committed is being used in Britain for the first time. Rebecca Lefort Telegraph…
Real ID Online? New Federal Online Identity Plan Raises Privacy and Free Speech Concerns
Electronic Frontier Foundation Commentary by Lee Tien Coauthored by Seth Schoen The White House recently released a draft of a troubling plan titled “National Strategy…
$35 Indian Computer, NY Garbage, Congress Food Tab
Eric King King World News While India is headed higher in terms of standard of living and their economy, the west continues to sink into…