Source: empty wheel
Congressman Hank Johnson asked NSA Director Keith Alexander about James Bamford’s Wired article describing the data storage and analysis center in UT.
Tag Archives: Telecom
NSA Director Keith Alexander: FBI does the domestic collection
March 21, 2012 – 6:07 pm
Secret U.S. memo reveals which telecoms store data the longest
September 28, 2011 – 9:59 pm
Source: Wired
The nation’s major mobile-phone providers are keeping a treasure trove of sensitive data on their customers, according to newly-released Justice Department internal memo that for the first time reveals the data retention policies of America’s largest telecoms.
Indian telecom operators and authorities discuss VoIP, Skype, Facebook interception
September 23, 2011 – 10:52 pm
Source: Kashmir Global
A high-level meeting of state and central officials with telecom operators was held wherein operators addressed the security agencies’ concern over monitoring of social networking sites and voice chat facilities on a real-time basis.
ITU report says Canada slipped to 26th worldwide in ICT Development Index
September 16, 2011 – 4:53 pm
Source: Michael Geist
The International Telecommunications Union yesterday released its Measuring the Information Society 2011 report, which benchmarks information society developments worldwide. The news for Canada was not good as we fell from 20th in 2008 (the last time the ITU issued its report) to 26th worldwide today.
Joel Harding on Huawei “threats”
September 12, 2011 – 4:12 pm
Source: To Inform is to Influence
After a meeting with the US spokesperson for Huawei, Joel Harding writes about the speculations surrounding espionage.
The rise of Asian cyberspace: Challenges and opportunities for Canada
September 12, 2011 – 1:21 pm
In a new article for the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, Director Ron Deibert writes about the rise of Asia’s cyberspace.
Disturbing moves against news media by Supreme Council
September 12, 2011 – 9:49 am
Source: Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is worried by the last night’s threat by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to use the state of emergency law against all journalists “threatening social peace.” It followed a raid earlier in the day on Al-Jazeera’s Egyptian affiliate, Al-Jazeera Mubasher Egypt, as part of an announced operation to check the licences of 16 satellite TV stations.
6B mobile connections by the end of 2011
September 8, 2011 – 11:21 am
Source: GigaOm
The total number of global mobile connections are going to go past the six billion mark by the end of 2011 according to a forecast from Wireless Intelligence, the research arm of the trade group, GSMA. Wireless Intelligence is forecasting about 6.07 billion connections at the close of the year.
Cameras Everywhere Report 2011
September 6, 2011 – 9:29 am
Source: Witness.Org
From the Arab Spring, with its use of social media, cell phones and the internet, to the release of confidential documents by Wikileaks, new technologies and new approaches are challenging long-held assumptions about how human rights documentation and advocacy functions, and who does it. Video has emerged as a key means through which human rights abuses can be exposed, while also contributing more broadly to ensuring that transparency, account ability and good governance are upheld.
Explaining the context for the AT&T-TMobile merger
August 31, 2011 – 8:53 am
Source: Susan Crawford
Right now, DOJ’s Sharis Pozen is holding a press conference to announce that DOJ is suing to block the merger. This is great news that shouldn’t be surprising. It was a terrible deal in a host of ways. But even without the deal we still have a problem.
