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Published in: HomeCop cams go globalBrazil´s military police have long equated law enforcement with warfare. But there are signs that the status quo is...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Saving privacy in the age of mass surveillance: do judges hold the key?European courts have interpreted privacy in a holistic manner, addressing not only the challenges of mass...
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Published in: HomeChina and Habermas's public sphereThere is a public realm, and it nurtures a society of free citizens. The painful, complex evolution of this idea in...
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Published in: HomeAn uncertain contract: “Hacking Team” and the collection of public data
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE New findings published by Kaspersky Lab, concerning the widespread state...
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Published in: openSecurityTwenty-first century protest: social media and surveillanceThe internet is a two-edged sword—a vehicle for mass surveillance on the one hand and the organisation of...
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Published in: ourNHSSaving NHS money - or a bonanza for Big Pharma and Big Tech?
Are big NHS changes in England including local closures and more ‘care at home’ driven by the need to save money -...
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Published in: Home“We had to wait for Snowden for proof”, an exchange with NSA whistleblower William BinneyThe NSA preferred a much more expensive system of bulk collection of foreign data. That was a fatal choice as it...
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Published in: HomeAll I can say is that you are uninteresting! An exchange with General Michael Hayden, Director of the NSA from 1999-2005On the first anniversary of Ed Snowden’s revelations, this interview contributes to what we intend will become a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?"Let's not talk about it": how the mass surveillance debate was silenced in RomaniaThe active suppression of debate about mass surveillance, SIM card registration and data retention by Romanian...
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Published in: openSecurityBuilding the blacklist: police spies and trade unionistsIn 2009 a UK construction industry blacklist, administered by a private company holding files on thousands of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Mass surveillance and institutional racism: two sides of the Swedish coinLast year, it was revealed that the Swedish state indexed all Roma living in Sweden and made its secret services...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The EU's active fight for digital rightsProtecting personal data is high on the EU agenda, and Snowden’s revelations undoubtedly triggered reactions and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Surveillance in Spain: a slowly developing debate amid political indifferenceHow did the Snowden saga impact Spain? How did the government and society react to the revelations about...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Silence remains the easiest answer: Polish non-reactions to Snowden’s disclosuresLegitimising the politics of mass surveillance wouldn’t be possible in Poland if it wasn’t successfully tested by...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Mind the gap: is data protection catching up with Google Search?The recent Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) Google Spain judgment profoundly challenges the current...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Surveillance: justice, freedom and security in the EU
A discussion of European surveillance programmes cannot be reduced to the question of a balance between data...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Swiss debate on mass surveillance: what debate?How did Switzerland, a country attached to the importance of personal privacy, respond after the story about the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?State surveillance in the Czech RepublicThe Czech state doesn't have the capacities to develop a mass scale internet surveillance programme – but resorts to...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Sweden's surveillance: justice, freedom and security in the EUOver the years, Sweden has become the biggest collaborating partner of GCHQ outside the English-speaking countries,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Germany's surveillance: justice, freedom and security in the EU
Germany has been engaging in large-scale surveillance and exchange of communications data with international...