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Emirates tasked Mossad with World Expo security

16 September 2021

The United Arab Emirates have put the Israeli Mossad in charge of providing security for World Expo, to be held in Dubai from 1 October 2021 to 31 March 2022.
According to MijharAlJazeera.com, where various documents can be found, Israel in return demanded that the Emirates hand over an (...)

"Five Eyes" about to become "Nine Eyes"

6 September 2021

2019 ’Five Eyes’ Summit in California (Photo: Rights reserved).
The United States, leader of the “Five Eyes” Communications Interception and Tracking Group (along with Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom), wishes to bring other countries into this intelligence-sharing alliance. (...)

Taliban lays hold of US biometric identification system

24 August 2021

According to The Intercept [1], the Taliban have captured the US biometric identification system, HIIDE (Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment).
For 20 years, the US occupation forces have developed a biometric file encompassing virtually the entire Afghan population, including (...)

European Council challenging e-Privacy

3 June 2021

The European Council, comprising European Heads of State and Government, is aiming to set up an e-mail monitoring system. This initiative being extremely unpopular since it would undercut individual freedoms even further, it is promoted under the noble pretext of curtailing child pornography. (...)

French Officials will censure Facebook France

18 November 2018

Facebook has accepted allowing French state officials to form part of its censorship committee. So announced French President, Emmanuel Macron.
This announcement was made at an International Forum on the Internet Governance held on 12 November 2018 at UNESCO (Paris). The agreement is that this (...)

How CIA Spies Access India’s Biometric Aadhaar Database

by Shelley Kasli

Bangalore (India) | 25 August 2017

The Indian Supreme Court has just recognized the constitutional inviolability of the right to privacy. It will have to decide soon on the legality of the generalization of biometric identification. On the same day, Wikileaks published documents on the CIA’s tools. Using the data already (...)

Answer to OHCHR about the German Network Enforcement Act

by Heiko Maas

Berlin (Germany) | 9 August 2017

Answers to the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression in regard to the Act to Improve En-forcement of the Law in Social Networks (Network Enforcement Act), provided by the Federal Government of Germany
Reference: Letter, dated 1 (...)

OHCHR Letter on the Heiko Maas Bill to combat Fake News

by David Kaye

Geneva (Switzerland) | 1 June 2017

Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection Heiko Maas Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
Excellency,
I have the honour to address you in my capacity as Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of (...)

The penalisation of the client «prostitutor»

by Tülay Umay

Brussels (Belgium) | 26 April 2016

The new French law which penalises the clients of prostitutes is supposed to combat prostitution. In reality, it will do no more than move street commerce elsewhere. For the Socialist Party therefore, it is not designed to abolish prostitution, but to install a form of public morality – a (...)

France – creation of a police state (part 1)

Exceptional procedures without a state of emergency

by Jean-Claude Paye

Brussels (Belgium) | 30 March 2016

In the context of the attacks claimed by Daesh, the French government is proceeding with a series of reforms which will considerably expand the powers of the police and the administration to the detriment of the judicial system. Given that these reforms have no bearing on the prevention of this (...)

U.S. law imposes itself on European territory

by Jean-Claude Paye

Brussels (Belgium) | 10 July 2014

European governments most hypocritically claim that the mandate given to the European Commission to negotiate a transatlantic trade and investment partnership agreement with Washington falls within European law. Actually as with previous agreements such as Swift, data related to air passengers, (...)

Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown

by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

21 June 2014

At the end of the Cold War, a scandal rattled universities in the United States: renowned teachers and research laboratories were secretly funded by the Pentagon. On one hand, their expert opinions were tainted and, on the other, their research was oriented towards military applications. This (...)

NYPD will no longer monitor Muslim community

17 April 2014

The New York Police Department (NYPD) has decided to stop its secret surveillance program targeting the Muslim community, new Police Commissioner William J. Bratton reported.
The program was devised after the coup of September 11, 2001 by former CIA officer Lawrence Sanchez. The New York (...)

Billionaire Pierre Omidyar’s double dealing

3 March 2014

On the occasion of the coup in Ukraine, we have learned that several associations of the pro-US opposition were co-financed by the State Department and the Franco-Iranian-American billionaire Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay .
Mr. Omidyar has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars into New (...)

UK intercepts millions of private videos on Yahoo

28 February 2014

According to an internal National Security Agency (NSA) document released by Edward Snowden, the GCHQ (secret service of the United Kingdom) - acting on its own behalf and that of the United States - intercepted millions of private webcam chats exchanged on Yahoo.
The document states that (...)

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