World moves to rein in US spying
The world is fighting back against overweening US surveillance of private global communications, such as phone calls and emails, with moves to create a new protocol to human rights agreements.
The world is fighting back against overweening US surveillance of private global communications, such as phone calls and emails, with moves to create a new protocol to human rights agreements.
Without privacy, other key freedoms also disappear, and democracy itself disintegrates, Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff has told the UN. She has called for a new UN-run internet.
Young people are handing their their personal IDs to bouncers and bar staff under pub scanning regimes which mostly infringe privacy rules and principles, Bill Rowlings of CLA says
Hiding behind the election’s caretaker mode, Oz spooks have imposed a blackout on explaining Australia’s use of PRISM and other immoral uberveillance. Where’s IGIS when you need her?
With fresh calls for the federal government to adopt mandatory data retention, what’s going on with surveillance in Australia’s greenest destination? Clare Blumer of the Global Mail reports, with help from CLA’s Richard Griggs
When we fight for the right to remain anonymous, it’s us against the US intelligence-industrial complex, through a PRISM where truth and justice bend to the American way. CLA’s V-P Tim Vines presents…
The US surveillance state is so anti-democratic that even the leading American newspaper, The New York Times, is railing against it. US e-hegemony is becoming a form of communication terrorism, excising privacy from citizens of the world.
If the internet initially reduced the traditional advantages governments have had in controlling information, governments have dug deep to try to restore that advantage, given the value of information.
Cartoon: thanks to John Ditchburn, Inkcinct
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