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LULZ: Federal Agencies Pissed Off About State Sales Tax Bills

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/05/20/2213205/nsa-data-center-the-focus-of-tax-controversy

Skype with care – Microsoft is reading everything you write

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Skype-with-care-Microsoft-is-reading-everything-you-write-1862870.html# They too had received visits to each of the HTTPS URLs transmitted over Skype from an IP address registered to Microsoft in Redmond. URLs pointing to encrypted web pages frequently contain unique session data or other confidential information. HTTP URLs, by contrast, were not accessed. In visiting these pages, Microsoft made use of both [...]

DEA messes with Apple fanboy’s heads – It can read your iPhone messages

http://news.techeye.net/security/dea-messes-with-apple-fanboys-heads?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: techeye/security (Tech Eye – Latest Security headlines)

Surveillance Court’s Opinions Must Remain Secret, Feds Say

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/04/secret-surveillance-court/

Schneier on Security: Our Internet Surveillance State

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/03/our_internet_su.html

Schneier on Security: Is the U.S. Government Recording and Saving All Domestic Telephone Calls?

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/05/is_the_us_gover.html

Microsoft, Too, Says FBI Secretly Surveilling Its Customers

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/03/microsoft-nsl-revelation/

Facebook finally admits to tracking non-users in 2011

http://www.firstpost.com/tech/facebook-finally-admits-to-tracking-non-users-133684.html

FBI’s Latest Proposal for a Wiretap-Ready Internet Should Be Trashed

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/05/the-fbis-plan-for-a-wiretap-ready-internet-is-misdirected-shortsighted-and-ridiculous/

Saudi Arabian Telecom Pitches to Moxie Marlinspike: “Help Us Spy on Everyone. If you refuse, you must be a terrorist.”

http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/05/14/0224230/saudi-arabian-telecom-pitches-to-moxie-marlinspike

Skype Encryption? Bullshit. Microsoft Reads Your Skype Chat Messages

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/05/14/1516247/microsoft-reads-your-skype-chat-messages

“Shock” that US Gov Monitoring AP Phones? Everything is Being Monitored Dumbasses.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/05/13/2212253/us-government-monitoring-associated-press-phone-records

India Rolls Out Central Monitoring System To Snoop On All Communications

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/05/08/1252201/india-rolls-out-central-monitoring-system-to-snoop-on-all-communications

FinSpy

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/03/finspy.html Twenty five countries are using the FinSpy surveillance software package (also called FinFisher) to spy on their own citizens.

IRS reverses course on warrantless email snooping

http://www.dailydot.com/news/irs-email-warrantless-snooping-reversal/

IRS are reading emails without a warrant

http://www.salon.com/2013/04/10/irs_may_be_reading_emails_without_a_warrant/

WA State Bill would allow bosses to seek Facebook passwords

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Bill-would-allow-bosses-to-seek-Facebook-passwords-201151951.html

DEA Leaks Fake Info Implying It Can’t Read Apple iMessages

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130405/01485922590/dea-accused-leaking-misleading-info-falsely-implying-that-it-cant-read-apple-imessages.shtml?_format=full?_format=full

Microsoft and New York City’s Police Surveillance Technology Sold to Other Cities

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/04/nyregion/new-york-citys-police-surveillance-technology-could-bring-in-money.html?src=rechp&_r=1&

Schneier on Security: The Dangers of Surveillance

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/03/the_dangers_of.html

Fusion center director: We don’t spy on Americans, just anti-government Americans

http://rt.com/usa/fusion-center-director-spying-070/

California gets face scanners to spy on everyone at once

http://rt.com/usa/california-facefirst-surveillance-recognition-908/ ..a single computer wired to the FaceFirst system can consider in a single breath as images captured by cameras, cell phones and surveillance devices from as far as 100 feet away are fed into algorithms designed to pick out terrorists and persons of interest. In a single setting, an unlimited amount of cameras can [...]

Real-Time Gmail Spying a ‘Top Priority’ For FBI This Year

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/03/26/2328250/real-time-gmail-spying-a-top-priority-for-fbi-this-year a 1994 surveillance law called the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act only allows the government to force Internet providers and phone companies to install surveillance equipment within their networks. But it doesn’t cover email, cloud services, or online chat providers like Skype. Weissmann said that the FBI wants the power to mandate real-time [...]

Subpoena BYOD Mobile Law: Must a Robot Warn You Before It Records You?

http://hack-igations.blogspot.co.uk/2008/03/robots-as-keepers-of-legal-records.html

Subpoena BYOD Mobile Law: Must a Robot Warn You Before It Records You?

http://hack-igations.blogspot.co.uk/2008/03/robots-as-keepers-of-legal-records.html

Twitter Sued For $50 Million After Refusing To Identify Authors Of Racist And Anti-Semitic Tweets

http://www.ibtimes.com/print/twitter-sued-50-million-after-refusing-identify-authors-racist-anti-semitic-tweets-1145609

Professional videoconferencing system as a spy

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Professional-videoconferencing-system-as-a-spy-1824707.html

Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die

http://www.kurzweilai.net/predictive-analytics-the-power-to-predict-who-will-click-buy-lie-or-die

Facebook to Partner With Acxiom, Epsilon to Match Store Purchases With User Profiles

http://adage.com/article/digital/facebook-partner-acxiom-epsilon-match-store-purchases-user-profiles/239967/

The Internet is a surveillance state

http://generalblogger.com/the-internet-is-a-surveillance-state/

Federal Judge Finds National Security Letters Unconstitutional, Bans Them (in 90 days)

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/03/nsl-found-unconstitutional/ After the telecom challenged the NSL, the Justice Department took its own extraordinary measure and sued the company, arguing in court documents that the company was violating the law by challenging its authority.

CIA & NSA Jealous of FBI’s FinCEN Database, run crying to mommy for equal access

http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/03/13/usa-banks-spying-idINDEE92C0EH20130313

Iran blocks VPN access to global web, cracks down on ‘illegal’ filter workaround

http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/10/iran-blocks-vpn-filters-internet/

Google Outs FBI National Security Letter Requests in Annual Transparency Report

http://www.hotforsecurity.com/blog/google-outs-fbi-national-security-letter-requests-in-annual-transparency-report-5607.html

Half of Destructoid’s readers block our ads. Now what?

http://www.destructoid.com/half-of-destructoid-s-readers-block-our-ads-now-what–247904.phtml

Court Strikes Down US Border Forensic Search of Gadgets, Allows Casual Manual Searching though

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/03/gadget-border-searches/?cid=co6276364

Cypherpunk rising: WikiLeaks, encryption, and the coming surveillance dystopia | The Verge

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/7/4036040/cypherpunks-julian-assange-wikileaks-encryption-surveillance-dystopia

US Police Forensic Tools Can Collect Suspects’ Smartphone Data without Warrant, ACLU Says

http://www.hotforsecurity.com/blog/us-police-forensic-tools-can-collect-suspects-smartphone-data-without-warrant-aclu-says-5574.html

PANOPTICON: The documentary about your privacy

PANOPTICON: The documentary about your privacy Watch this video on YouTube.

Raytheon’s Riot Program Mines Social Network Data Like a Google for Spies

Raytheon’s Riot Program Mines Social Network Data Like a Google for Spies Watch this video on YouTube.

RIOT gear: your online trail just got way more visible

http://theconversation.edu.au/riot-gear-your-online-trail-just-got-way-more-visible-12146

The Cashless Utopia Mirage – Forbes

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/02/24/the-cashless-utopia-mirage/ The persistent war on cash has more to do with moralistic society than it does with civil society as Wolman claims. With ultimate tracking capabilities, how does Wolman decide when a government’s “right” becomes a wrong? Does he defend the victimless crime laws against online gambling and consensual sex for money between adults? Does [...]

If your Fly is Down, Cops Don’t Need Warrant for Cavity Search

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/02/21/1343231/cellphone-privacy-in-canada-encryption-triggers-need-for-warrant?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

If your Fly is Down, Cops Don’t Need Warrant for Cavity Search

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/02/21/1343231/cellphone-privacy-in-canada-encryption-triggers-need-for-warrant?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

“Camover” Raids Hit U.S.

http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/camover-raids-hit-u-s/ When asked by Vice “aren’t you just wasting taxpayers’ money, since the government will inevitably re-install any CCTV you take out?” Camover’s originators responded, “Isn’t the government just going to waste taxpayers’ money when they replace the cameras that we are inevitably going to take down again?” It’s a direct approach to fight the [...]

FBI Files Reveal History Behind “Stingray” Cellphone Tracking Tool

http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/fbi-files-reveal-history-behind-stingray-cellphone-tracking-tool/

Your Other Big Brother: The Modern Repo Man Commission Camera Network

Google Moves to Destroy Online Anonymity … Helping Authoritarian Governments In the Process

http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-02-10/google-moves-destroy-online-anonymity-…-helping-authoritarian-governments-pro

Facebook’s Graph Search: Kiss Your Privacy Goodbye

http://slashdot.org/topic/cloud/facebooks-graph-search-kiss-your-privacy-goodbye/

Path promises fix for grabbing geolocation data from photos

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/02/path-promises-fix-for-new-privacy-liberties-taken-by-ios-app/

Meet the American Company Helping Governments Spy on “Billions” of Communications

http://www.readability.com/read?url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/01/30/verint_the_american_company_helping_governments_spy_on_billions_of_communications.html

The Eavesdropping System in Your Server

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/01/the_eavesdroppi.html

The Best Parenting App Is Against The Law

http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/why-the-best-parenting-app-is-against-the-law

“Privacy Visor” Protects You From Facial Recognition Machines

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-01/privacy-visor-protects-you-prying-eyes

How-to stop getting tracked in your Browser.

http://fixtracking.com/

Book review: Cypherpunks on Freedom and the Future of the Internet

http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/book-of-the-day-cypherpunks-on-freedom-and-the-future-of-the-internet/2013/01/24?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: P2pFoundation (P2P Foundation)

Google Tells Cops to Get Warrants for User E-Mail, Cloud Data

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/google-says-get-a-warrant/

Deception Is Futile When Big Brother’s Lie Detector Turns Its Eyes on You

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/ff-lie-detector/all/

Have a Wi-Fi-Enabled Phone? Stores Are Tracking You

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/01/22/2216224/have-a-wi-fi-enabled-phone-stores-are-tracking-you?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

The FBI Needs Hackers, Not Backdoors

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/01/wiretap-backdoors/

FBI “Surveillance Strategy Is Privileged and Confidential”

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/fbi-surveillance-strategy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: wired/index (Wired: Top Stories) What has been made public is that, following the high court’s Jan. 23 decision, the Federal Bureau of Investigation pulled the plug on some 3,000 GPS trackers. The bureau’s general counsel, Andrew Weissmann, acknowledged that fact while speaking at a legal symposium at the University of San Francisco last year. [...]

Activists Start Campaign To Destroy Surveillance Cameras

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/126383-2013-01-14-activists-start-campaign-to-destroy-surveillance-cameras.htm?EdNo=001&From=

No, those are not Clouds Blocking Beijing From US Spy Satelites

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=80152

Anti-Surveillance Clothing

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/01/anti-surveillan_1.html

As NSA Pairs With Banks To “Fight Hackers”, Will It Also Gain Access To Every American’s Financial Secrets?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-13/nsa-pairs-banks-fight-hackers-will-it-also-gain-access-every-americans-financial-det

Nokia Admits Decrypting User Data But Denies Man-in-the-Middle Attack

http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/nokia-decrypting-traffic-man-in-the-middle-attacks-103799

China listening in on Skype – Microsoft assumes you approve : darknetplan

http://www.reddit.com/r/darknetplan/comments/157yld/china_listening_in_on_skype_microsoft_assumes_you/

Does Spying on Americans Protect Them?

http://antiwar.com/blog/2013/01/03/government-surveillance-of-american-citizens/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: AWCBlog (Antiwar.com Blog)

Cox Comm ISP Injects HTML into users Browsing to Notify of Email Outage

https://twitter.com/search?q=@coxcomm&src=typd

Google Gmail Bans Non SSL-Cartel Issued / Non MITM’able, Personal SSL Certs

http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=21291

Facebook Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57559710-38/instagram-says-it-now-has-the-right-to-sell-your-photos/

ISP Walks Out of Piracy Talks: “We’re Not The Internet Police”

http://torrentfreak.com/isp-walks-out-of-piracy-talks-were-not-the-internet-police-121217/

The ‘Great Firewall of China’ reinforced, blocks Encryption

http://www.zdnet.com/the-great-firewall-of-china-reinforced-prevents-encryption-7000008883/

I Was a Paid Internet Shill

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread826545/pg1

Jersey City Unveils ‘Eye In The Sky’ Surveillance Tower To Fight Crime

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/12/11/jersey-city-unveils-3-story-high-eye-in-the-sky-surveillance-tower-to-fight-crime/