No choice but to use American gear, grins spymaster
Source: Non-US encryption is ‘theoretical,’ claims CIA chief in backdoor debate
Category: Spying
Spies In Denial: GCHQ Boss Says Snowden Didn’t Kick Off Debate Over Surveillance | Techdirt
No, Edward Snowden had not sparked a global debate about privacy – that had been under way already – but terrorist targets GCHQ had been tracking had learned from his revelations with heavens knows what consequences, he said.
Source: Spies In Denial: GCHQ Boss Says Snowden Didn’t Kick Off Debate Over Surveillance | Techdirt
UK Home Office is creating mega database by stitching together ALL its gov records • The Register
At least it consulted… The public? Parliament? No one? WHAT!
Source: UK Home Office is creating mega database by stitching together ALL its gov records • The Register
FBI Wants to Remove Privacy Protections from its Massive Biometrics Database | Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF and 44 Other Organizations Call for More Time to Respond
Vindication for Edward Snowden From a New Player in NSA Whistleblowing Saga
A former assistant inspector general at the Pentagon who was responsible for protecting whistleblowers became one himself when the process failed.
Source: Vindication for Edward Snowden From a New Player in NSA Whistleblowing Saga
Pentagon Official Once Told Morley Safer That Reporters Who Believe the Government Are “Stupid”
Arthur Sylvester, the Pentagon’s PR chief, told Safer the facts of life in 1966 in Vietnam.
Source: Pentagon Official Once Told Morley Safer That Reporters Who Believe the Government Are “Stupid”
FBI Told Cops to Recreate Evidence From Secret Cell-Phone Trackers
Feds tell locals that they need to find other ways “to corroborate information concerning the location of the target obtained through the use of this equipment” if they want to introduce it at trial.
Source: FBI Told Cops to Recreate Evidence From Secret Cell-Phone Trackers
Cops deploy StingRay anti-terror tech against $50 chicken-wing thief • The Register
Whaddaya mean abuse of privacy?!
Source: Cops deploy StingRay anti-terror tech against $50 chicken-wing thief • The Register
Secret US spy court approved every surveillance request in 2015
Perfect batting average continues with the FISA Court two years in a row now.
Source: Secret US spy court approved every surveillance request in 2015
NYPD Using ‘Nuisance Abatement’ Law To Force Small Businesses To Install Cameras, Agree To Warrantless Searches | Techdirt
He agreed to pay a $2,000 fine, maintain cameras that the NYPD can access at any time, and to allow the police to conduct warrantless searches. If anyone is even accused of breaking the law at his business again — whether a store employee or not — he faces escalating penalties: closures that would increase from 30 days to 60 days to 90 days to a full year with each alleged offense; fines climbing as high as $15,000.
Perhaps most damaging of all, the terms continue in perpetuity, even if the business changes hands.