DHS Dept of Homeland Security the biggest customer?
Face recognition.
The Verge, Oct 2023
New York Times journalist Kashmir Hill comes on Decoder to discuss her new book, Your Face Belongs to Us.
This Firefox extension was inspired by the launch of Google's encrypted search option. We wanted a way to ensure that every search our browsers sent was encrypted. At the same time, we were also able to encrypt most or all of the browser's communications
sv övers av Navi Pillays intervju med Channel 4: Denna sydafrikanska har försvarat elektronisk frihet förut, både före och efter det att Snowdens läckor avslöjades i juni.
David Omand The Guardian, Tuesday 11 June 2013 As former GCHQ chief I believe we should set down some principles that would help guide the public debate on privacy
All over the world – from the Americas to Europe to the Middle East to Africa and Asia – companies in the Information & Communications Technology (ICT) sector face increasing government pressure to comply with domestic laws and policies in ways that may conflict with the internationally recognized human rights of freedom of expression and privacy.
NYT By JONATHAN ZITTRAINMAY 14, 2014 The Opinion Pages A right to be forgotten? "THE European Court of Justice ruled on Tuesday that Europeans have a limited “right to be forgotten” by search engines like Google. According to the ruling, an individual can compel Google to remove certain reputation-harming search results that are generated by Googling the individual’s name. The court is trying to address an important problem — namely, the Internet’s ability to preserve indefinitely all its information about you, no matter how unfortunate or misleading — but it has devised a poor solution."
Series: Glenn Greenwald on security and liberty XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet' • XKeyscore gives 'widest-reaching' collection of online data • NSA analysts require no prior authorization for searches • Sweeps up emails, social media activity and browsing history • NSA's XKeyscore program – read one of the presentations Wednesday 31 July 2013
Pamela Jones 20 August 2013: "The owner of Lavabit tells us that he's stopped using email and if we knew what he knew, we'd stop too. Oddly, if everyone did that, leap off the Internet, the world's economy would collapse, I suppose. I can't really hope for that. But for me, the Internet is over... So this is the last Groklaw article. I won't turn on comments. Thank you for all you've done. I will never forget you and our work together. I hope you'll remember me too. I'm sorry I can't overcome these feelings, but I yam what I yam, and I tried, but I can't. "
The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools that enable Internet advertisers to track consumers, using "cookies" and location data to pinpoint targets for government hacking and to bolster surveillance.
Svensk Biblioteksförening 4 november, 2013 IFLA arbetar aktivt med frågor som rör användarnas integritet på biblioteken. Kommittéarbetet inom FAIFE kommer under 2014 bland annat att fokusera på internetmanifestet. Tillsammans med bland andra de amerikanska och brittiska biblioteksföreningarna, American Library Association och CILIP, ska manifestet revideras. Under konferensen Internet Governance Forum på Bali diskuterades de senaste avslöjanden om regeringars övervakningar och hur detta skapar en ny kontext för bibliotekens verksamheter. IFLA menar att biblioteksgemenskapen måste vara förberedd på utvecklingen och fortsätta värna grundläggande värderingar när de tillhandahåller internet till sina användare.