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The National Applications Office is meant to coordinate the use of military Spy satellites to watch the US, but the GAO warns that more privacy checks are needed. Congress has given the NAO a qualified go-ahead, barring cooperation with Law enforcement... for now. Read More... ... Source: blog.wired.com --- 33 days ago
Online privacy scored a small victory this week as the CEO for controversial net eavesdropping firm NebuAD resigned just months after Congress successfully scared the country's ISPs into abandoning dreams of windfall profits from tracking their customers around the web. Dykes's resignation can best be understood as the death -- if only temporary one -- of a scheme to track online users' every click and search in order to serve just the right ad at the right time - a service that companies will pay a premium for. NebuAd's business model was to pay ISPs to let it install equipment to monitor where people surfed and what they searched on, in order to deliver targeted ads based on the user's profile. ISPs hungry to be more than just a railroad company warmed to the idea of new revenue. But after one of the nation's largest ISPs, Charter Communication, announced plans to test NebuAd technology , the House Energy and Commerce committee became very interested whether tracking people's every move on the net violated federal Law. The inquiry dealt a critical blow to the company, since it quickly became apparent that no ISP was going to take on a powerful House telecom committee to defend untested and clearly creepy technology. Now NebuAd CEO and founder Bob Dykes resigned to take a job at VeriFone , a retail payment system company, just a day after the AP ran a slightly premature obituary for NebuAd , which sought to pay ISPs to let it Spy ...
Source: www.theglobeandmail.com --- 33 days ago
Sutdy aimed at ensuring Spy agency acting appropriately and within the Law ... Source: p10.hostingprod.com --- 23 days ago
Having been chided by the estimable Julian Todd , for not making use of the ver improving WhatDoTheyKnow.com FOIA request submission and tracking website, we have decided to try our luck in sending in an FOIA request through that website, rather than directly via email. See the Spy Blog article The next Home Office data security and privacy disaster ? Sharing all our financial details with private sector "specified anti-fraud organisations" Will we get an idea of what the alleged data handling security and privacy safeguards are supposed to be, before the new powers to circumvent the Common Law Duty of Confidentiality which used to protect our financial and medical details , which come into force on 1st October ? The text of our WhatDoTheyKnow.com - FOIA request : ... Source: en.wasalive.com --- 27 days ago
Charles BremnerLondon TimesSeptember 9, 2008 President Nicolas Sarkozy faced an embarrassing split in his Cabinet today over a computer system that a new French internal intelligence service will use to Spy on the private lives of millions of Law-abiding citizens. Hervé Morin, the Defence... ... Source: www.nysun.com --- 25 days ago
The Federal Court in New York released yesterday the long-awaited closed Grand Jury Records pertaining to the Rosenberg case. What did they disclose? What new information did they provide about ties between the Rosenbergs and other Soviet Spy rings? Do they provide any new information, particularly relating to the role of Ethel Rosenberg, and the charge by the prosecution and Judge Irving Kaufman that Ethel, in typing information given to her by her brother-in-Law, David Greenglass, to be... ... Source: www.nowpublic.com --- 23 days ago
September 13, 2008 Ron Paul Supporters Hack Campaign Finance Law to Send Blimp Aloft Filed under: 2008, 911, CIA, Congress, DANGER, Dennis-Kucinich, Election, FBI, Gangs, IMPEACHMENT, Iran, Iraq, Israeli, Israeli Spy, Kucinich, Kucinich-Dennis, Mason, Military, NEWS... read more ... Source: celebrityphotos.sheknows.com --- 28 days ago
Carla Gugino at season premiere five of HBO’s ‘Entourage’ held at the Zigfeld Theatre in New York. Carla Gugino has a career spanning from 1989 and has appeared in movies and television such as “Troop Beverly Hills” ,”Saved By The Bell”, “Son in Law” (next to Pauly Shore), “Michael” , “Spy Kids” and most recently “Night [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry( { title: "Carla Gugino at the season premiere of “Entourage”", url: "http://celebrityphotos.sheknows.com/movies/carla-gugino-at-the-season-premiere-of-entourage" } ); ... Source: www.geo.tv --- 1 day ago
LAHORE: Federal Minister for Law, Farooq H. Naek has said the matter of Indian Spy Sarabjit Singh will be resolved in light of the Constitution and Law, however, President Asif Ali Zardari is competent to condone him. Talking to media here on Sunday, Naek said he will be meeting with Sarabjit Singh tomorrow and present a report in this regard to the President. He said India should reciprocate Pakistans goodwill gestures by releasing Pakistani prisoners languishing in Indian jails. No country can be attacked without the permission of United Nations Security Council (UNSC), he said and termed the unilateral strikes by U.S. within Pakistan territory as violation of the countrys sovereignty. He said the government is doing its utmost to resolve the matter of Dr. Afia Siddiqui. So far 90 per cent judges have been restored while Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar is discharging his responsibilities as Chief Justice of Pakistan, the Federal Law Minister pointed out. ... Source: www.myrtlebeachonline.com --- 25 days ago
Grand jury transcripts released Thursday from the biggest espionage case of the Cold War raise questions about whether Ethel Rosenberg was convicted and executed based on perjured prosecution testimony. The Rosenbergs were convicted of passing nuclear weapons secrets to the Soviet Union and were executed in 1953. Since then, decrypted Soviet cables have appeared to confirm that Julius Rosenberg was a Spy, but doubts have remained about Ethel Rosenberg's role. At the Rosenbergs' trial, the key testimony against Ethel Rosenberg came from her brother and sister-in-Law, David and Ruth Greenglass. ... Source: www.p2pnet.net --- 83 days ago
p2pnet news view Politics | Freedom:- Sweden’s heavily criticised Spy Law isn’t specific enough and furthermore, it’s, “too flossy” in its formulation, says the Justice Center (Centrum för Rättvisa - CFR). It also says the Law’s description of the threats to be controlled and the types of communication that can be monitored are too vague, [...] ... Source: www.dslreports.com --- 28 days ago
The Rise and Fall of Invasive ISP Surveillance Paul Ohm University of Colorado Law School August 31, 2008 ; Last revised: September 04, 2008 quote:Abstract: Nothing in society poses as grave a threat to privacy as the Internet Service Provider (ISP). ISPs carry their users' conversations, secrets, relationships, acts, and omissions. Until the very recent past, they had left most of these alone because they had lacked the tools to Spy invasively, but with recent advances in eavesdropping technology, they can now Spy on people in unprecedented ways. Meanwhile, advertisers and copyright owners have been tempting them to put their users' secrets up for sale, and judging from a recent flurry of reports, ISPs are giving in to the temptation and experimenting with new forms of spying. This is only the leading edge of a coming storm of unprecedented and invasive ISP surveillance. This Article proposes an innovative new theory of communications privacy to help policymakers strike the proper balance between user privacy and ISP need. We cannot simply ban aggressive monitoring, because ISPs have legitimate reasons for scrutinizing communications on an Internet teeming with threats. Using this new theory, policymakers will be able to distinguish between an ISP's legitimate needs and mere desires. In addition, this Article injects privacy into the network neutrality debate - a debate about who gets to control innovation on the Internet. Despite the ...
Source: www.portfolio.com --- 22 days ago
Job Title: Corporate investigator Employers: Business intelligence outfits Openings: Get training in Law, accounting, journalism, or Law enforcement first Salary Cap: High six figures Number of Jobs: Several thousand worldwide A few months ago, Bob Brenner was asked to tail Steve Jobs . A certain hedge fund, which he won't name, wanted him to uncover the truth about Jobs' health after the Apple C.E.O. appeared frail and gaunt at Apple 's July iPhone launch. Depending on the feedback, the hedge fund would shift its positions in Apple accordingly. Brenner, who works for Kroll, the $1 billion corporate intelligence consulting firm, said thanks but no thanks, citing ethical concerns. As head of Kroll's business intelligence group in the U.S. and Canada, Brenner is an expert at digging up hard-to-find information, and working for hedge funds constitutes a growing part of his business. But even corporate sleuths—please don't call him a Spy—draw the line somewhere. "You could debate the question whether Apple has an obligation to their shareholders to disclose more than they have given the central position Jobs holds relative to the company's success," Brenner says. "We get hard-to-find information, and sometimes it's information subjects would prefer wouldn't be out there. But there's a personal sphere of privacy we won't get involved in. We're not going to do it." There's a lot, however, that Brenner will do. The former New York pro ... Source: linkfilter.net --- 30 days ago
Hedge funds have reputations for being shrouded in mystery, but a London-based fund that specializes in investing in Russia finds itself at the center of a story that's a downright thriller. Hermitage Capital Management, a $3 billion fund that also invests in emerging markets, recently put out an investor letter that reads more like a Spy novel than an update to investors about performance. Indeed, the note describes police raids, fake companies and at least one murderer all connected to a twisted and complex fraud scheme hatched by thieves who stole millions from the Russian government. Hermitage's July 23 letter states that while thieves targeting the firm failed to get their hands on its assets, they succeeded in stealing millions from the Russian government by posing as Hermitage officials. And earlier this month, the fund put out a press release saying officers from the Russian Interior Ministry had raided Moscow Law firms hired by Hermitage to help end the fraud. While it may sound like a tall tale, the person doing the telling is Hermitage founder William Browder, a respected financier who's known for making a mint by helping stamp out fraud in Russian companies until he was kicked out of the country in 2005 after having stepped on too many toes. And backing his claims is London bank HSBC, which has filed criminal complaints in Russia as Hermitage's trustee. "I've never seen anything like this in my l ... Source: southernstudies.org --- 35 days ago
Blackwater Worldwide, the controversial private security firm based in North Carolina, is currently seeking qualified Law enforcement officers and security personnel to serve in the wake of Hurricane Gustav. So reports R.J. Hillhouse, a security expert who follows the outsourcing of the war on terror at her blog The Spy Who Billed Me . As she notes, this would be the first time the company has mobilized under its controversial Homeland Security contracts. About 600 Blackwater employees patrolled the streets of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, and the company eventually won a $73 million contact to protect FEMA staff helping with the recovery operation. Late Friday afternoon, Blackwater issued a call for personnel, saying it was compiling a list of people for possible deployment into areas affected by Gustav. It said that contract length was "TBD" -- to be determined. The company is seeking currently sworn Law enforcement officers with arrest powers, armed status ("Revolver only not accepted"), and departmental credentials. It's also looking for armed security officers from Oregon, Washington, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia, Maryland, Illinois and Oklahoma. In addition, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin told the New York Times that at least 1,500 National Guard troops are coming to his city to provide security in the storm's wake. ... Source: blogs.cioinsight.com --- 28 days ago
"Nothing in society poses as grave a threat to privacy as the Internet Service Provider." Thus begins a Jeremiad by University of Colorado Law prof Paul Ohm, who says new tools and financial incentives presage a "coming storm of unprecedented and invasive ISP surveillance." More from his paper (PDF here , abstract here , Ohm's precis here ): ISPs carry their users' conversations, secrets, relationships, acts, and omissions. Until the very recent past, they had left most of these alone because they had lacked the tools to Spy invasively, but with recent advances in eavesdropping technology, they can now Spy on people in unprecedented ways. Meanwhile, advertisers and copyright owners have been tempting them to put their users' secrets up for sale, and judging from a recent flurry of reports, ISPs are giving in to the temptation and experimenting with new forms of spying. Existing wiretapping laws, though, may provide necessary protections against snooping ISPs. The paper also "injects privacy into the network neutrality debate." More: We already enjoy mandatory network neutrality in the form of expansive wiretapping laws. The recognition of this idea will flip the status quo and reinvigorate a stagnant debate by introducing privacy and personal autonomy into a discussion that has only ever been about economics and innovation. ... Find more results for Spy Law on RSSMicro.com |
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U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Saturday denied that the Bush administration -- in conjunction with the nation's telecommunication companies -- devised a "dragnet" electronic surveillance program that funneled Americans' communications to the National Security Agency without court warrants. It was the first time Mukasey, as the nation's top Law enforcement official, or the government provided an emphatic and wholesale denial of allegations contained in lawsuits accusing the Bush administration of secretly siphoning Americans' telecommunications to the NSA Spy bureau without warrants following the 2001 terror attacks. Despite the denial, which was contained in a federal court filing (.pdf) publicly available Saturday, Mukasey asked a federal judge to grant immunity to the nation's telecommunications companies accused of assisting the NSA's alleged dragnet surveillance. The dragnet allegations were brought in 2006 by the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation. The EFF's lawsuit includes documents from a former AT&T technician that the EFF claims describe a secret room responsible for a wholesale "dragnet" of Americans' communications. The room allegedly is at an AT&T building in San Francisco. But Mukasey said having to publicly prove there was not warrantless dragnet surveillance would cause "exceptional harm to national security." He demanded a federal judge grant the nation's telecoms immunity from lawsuit ...
If there's a candidate for the worst future violator of your privacy, look no further than the company you pay for broadband. So says University of Colorado Law professor and former federal prosecutor Paul Ohm, who argues in a new article that ISPs have the means, motive and opportunity to kill your online privacy. Nothing in society poses as grave a threat to privacy as the Internet Service Provider (ISP). ISPs carry their users’ conversations, secrets, relationships, acts, and omissions. Until the very recent past, they had left most of these alone because they had lacked the tools to Spy invasively, but with recent advances in eavesdropping technology, they can now Spy on people in unprecedented ways. Meanwhile, advertisers and copyright owners have been tempting them to put their users’ secrets up for sale, and judging from a recent flurry of reports, ISPs are giving in to the temptation and experimenting with new forms of spying. This is only the leading edge of a coming storm of unprecedented and invasive ISP surveillance. But is that true? Ohm argues technological and economic forces virtually guarantee that ISPs will begin finding ways to make money by monitoring, categorizing and even storing everything their users do on their networks. Those are indisputable facts. But Ohm's argument comes right as powerful lawmakers have all but forced U.S. ISPs to abandon their dalliance with NebuAd, a Silicon Valley startup that wan ...
Everyone uses cell phones today from the innocent office worker to the nefarious drug dealer using the cell phone to make sales. Sometimes police and Law enforcement officials need to get access to the data stored on a cell phone including calls placed and text messages sent and received. The CSI Stick allows Law enforcement and anyone else to gather forensic grade information form a cell phone. The device can make a logical copy of all available data on the phone including text and media files. It can be set to only copy text messages, call logs, and phone books. Only photos and movies can be copied with the phone and a physical copy of the memory on the phone can be made as well. The CSI stick can gather much more data than something like the USB SIM reader can. The CSI Stick includes the CSI Stick base unit, two Motorola tips, one Samsung tip, one remote charger, and a carry case. This Spy tool is available to anyone with $199 to spare and with the urgency to extract someone's cellphone content. Permanent Link ...
Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia Law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia , as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks. Separately, Howard angered some Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying he supported Spy agencies monitoring the nation's mosques. Quote: 'IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT. Take It Or Leave It. I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali , we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians.' 'This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom' 'We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society . Learn the language!' 'Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian, right wing, political push, but a fact, because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture.' 'We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peacef ...