On 1 February, Tech and Law Centre at the University of Milan will host Morgan Marquis-Boire with a talk on “For Their Eyes Only: The Changing Face of Online Spying ”.
Tag Archives: Surveillance
Morgan Marquis-Boire on the changing nature of surveillance
January 29, 2013 – 5:12 pm
International Privacy Day: Anti-surveillance success stories
January 29, 2013 – 12:37 pm
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundations
January 28 marks International Privacy Day. Different countries are celebrating this day calling attention to their own events and campaigns.
Trojans for the Bundestag – German PD acquired Finfisher
January 29, 2013 – 12:23 pm
Source: Don Eijndhoven, InfoSec Island
In December of last year, the German public prosecutors’ office had declared that there was no legal basis for the use of the so-called “Bundestrojaner” spyware, which was used to spy on German citizens.
Citizen Lab Senior Researcher Sarah McKune in Huffington Post interview
January 17, 2013 – 6:07 pm
Hosted by Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, the segment explored US involvement in exporting arms and censorship, surveillance and filtering technology to brutal regimes abroad.
Indian government wiretapping
January 5, 2013 – 1:28 pm
Source: The Hacker News
According to a report, all major Indian telecom companies, including Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Tata Tele services, have agreed to share real-time interception of BlackBerry calls and data services on their networks with Security agencies.
Technical Advisor Morgan Marquis-Boire at State Surveillance and Human Rights Camp
December 14, 2012 – 5:57 am
Citizen Lab Technical Advisor Morgan Marquis-Boire gave a plenary talk at the State Surveillance And Human Rights Camp in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on December 13.
EU plans groundbreaking project to monitor Internet censorship around the world
November 6, 2012 – 8:38 am
Source: Ryan Gallagher, Slate
Keeping track of the avalanche of reports about new mass surveillance initiatives and Internet freedom crackdowns can be a difficult task. But soon there could be a solution to the problem: a global monitoring system that will help chart digital repression by mapping the Internet’s “cyber geography” in near real time.
GCHQ to trawl Facebook and Twitter for intelligence
October 31, 2012 – 3:36 pm
Source: Ryan Gallagher, The Guardian
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest: all of them could be the source of valuable intelligence that the UK’s intelligence agencies want to know about – and now government eavesdropping and security agency GCHQ is developing new tools to sift through them for nuggets of useful data.
Law enforcement renews demand for Internet surveillance legislation
October 29, 2012 – 6:52 am
Source: Michael Geist
The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police renewed its call for Internet surveillance legislation on Friday, urging the government to move forward with Bill C-30.
Surveillance malware targets UAE activist as exploit sellers implicated
October 11, 2012 – 1:25 am
Source: Tom Brewster, Tech Week Europe
A prominent activist from the UAE has been targeted by surveillance malware likely to have been created by an Italian company, with a French exploit seller implicated too, according to researchers.
