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Status of US mass surveillance in 2022

3 May 2022

In 2013, Edward Snowden had disclosed the existence of an NSA program enabling the monitoring of the communications involving more than 90% of Americans.
On 13 April 2021, two members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) revealed the (...)

EU sells off privacy of its citizens to US

28 March 2022

European Council President Charles Michel, who hosted US President Joe Biden in the context of the Ukrainian crisis, confirmed that an agreement had been reached on the transfer of personal data belonging to European Internet users to the US.
The previous agreement had been invalidated in July (...)

CIA illegally collected data

14 February 2022

Two members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senators Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) and Martin Heinrich (D-New Mexico), addressed a letter on 13 April 2021 to the Director of Intelligence and the Director of the CIA, which remained unanswered.
They demanded the declassification of a report on a (...)

All main social networks partner with intelligence services

16 December 2021

Since its inception, Facebook (currently Meta) has been working together with US intelligence services, which archive the totality of its private data.
WeChat and QQ (Tencent) are transparent to Chinese intelligence, which does not appear to be storing all of their data.
Moscow was lagging (...)

Apple intends to rummage through your smartphone ... without your knowledge

17 October 2021

Apple is planning to use a new technology (called CSS or Client-side scanning) which would enable it to detect the presence of any given document on any private Smartphone, regardless of whether that document has been shared or not.
Apple doesn’t need to scan through all the data; it simply (...)

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 (...)

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