
Pegasus project turns spotlight on spyware firm NSO's ties to Israeli state
• https://www.theguardian.com by Stephanie KirchgaesDisclosures about political figures put Israel under increasing pressure over extent of surveillance
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Disclosures about political figures put Israel under increasing pressure over extent of surveillance
Travelers at Dubai International Airport are now greeted by iris-scanners that are connected with the country's facial recognition database, according to the Associated Press (AP).
n 1948, the year Israel was founded, the Mer Group was established as a metal workshop.
Since the Paris terrorist attacks on November 13, various mainstream news outlets have noted that the politics of surveillance have shifted.
An Israeli-made surveillance balloon is being used by the Paris municipal police to help guard the global climate change summit currently underway in Paris.
Jordan and Israel have agreed to install additional security cameras near holy sites at the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem, as a 'first step' to decreasing a month of violence between Israelis and Palestinians in the city.
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The other night, I saw George Orwells's 1984 performed on the London stage.
A leak about an August al-Qaida plot reportedly has left U.S. intelligence reeling
The National Security Agency routinely shares raw intelligence data with Israel without first sifting it to remove information about US citizens, a top-secret document provided to the Guardian by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals.
Following is the text of a handwritten letter from Amir Hekmati, an American of Iranian descent who has been incarcerated in Iran for more than two years on espionage charges, addressed to Secretary of State John Kerry.
James Bamford on Democracy Now! 10 14 2008 AT&T and Verizon, that are secretly working with the NSA and tapping Americans' phone lines, and these companies actually outsource the actual tapping .
There’s never a shortage of irony when it comes to the U.S. government. We know that while Americans get their genitals grabbed (or a shot of radiation) at the airport to protect us from Al Qaeda, the U.S. government gives weapons to members of Al
[India's] NPR, NATGRID, NCTC and UID are unfolding without any legal mandate. It appears UID was, and remains, an attention diversion exercise. The real work is being done by Home Ministry to establish the world’s biggest surveillance database regime
Denied the right to travel without consent from their male guardians and banned from driving, women in Saudi Arabia are now monitored by an electronic system that tracks any cross-border movements. Since last week, Saudi women’s male guardians
WASHINGTON - Government and business interests amid an NIST steering committee nearly uprooted public interest group representations the week NSTIC grants were awarded to contractors to retrofit government issued ID for handheld devices.
Wanna Project?... These were distributed today 10-04-2012... Sneak Peek
Drones could soon operate without the help of humans. Agence France-Presse is reporting that the Pentagon wants its drones to be more autonomous, so that they can run with little to no assistance from people.
Researchers from the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center have developed malicious software that can remotely seize control of the camera on an infected smartphone and employ it to spy on the phone’s user.
The targeted killing of those suspected of engaging in terrorist activities against the United States, including American citizens, is justified and legal, according to the Defense Department's chief lawyer. Johnson reiterated Koh's assessment that
George Orwell, the pen name by which Eric Blair is known, had the gift of prophecy, or else blind luck. In 1949 in his novel, 1984, he described the Amerika of today and, I fear, also his native Great Britain,
Networked computers determine just how quickly our private lives become discrete packets of public information, and our financial portfolios become electronic heaps of worthless rubble. We "volunteered" to participate in this grand experiment...
NIST’s technologists envision that consumers could use an identity credential, such as a smart card or digital certificate, to prove their identity for things such as online banking, without revealing sensitive information at every log-in.
That organization is tasked with the goal of creating a once-size fits all international identification system using massive data banks that contain individual biometric information on nearly everyone in the world.