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Published in: openSecurityBig Brother is cashing in on youThe internet’s cookie monsters are harvesting your secrets. A £90bn industry is going unregulated and unchecked,...
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Published in: openSecurityInvasion of the data snatchers
How Big Data and the Internet of Things means the surveillance of everything. There’s simply no way to forecast how...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEveryone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression but conditions apply
Egypt has jailed journalists by the dozen; the Gulf is jailing people for tweets they send and surveillance...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Diagonal mass surveillance: Gulliver versus the LilliputiansMass surveillance does not follow the vertical logic of pure state surveillance as imagined by Orwell. Rather, it is...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe prevention of journalismGovernments may use increasingly complex and sophisticated tools for censoring unhelpful information but the end...
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Published in: openSecuritySaving privacy from deformed democracyWith focus on the government's grip over surveillance, the public debate over privacy has ignored citizen-led data...
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Published in: openSecuritySurveillance: finding the culprit
We scrutinize the state for its Orwellian ambitions, but not the structures that render them feasible. Privacy...
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Published in: openSecurityBig democracy, big surveillance: India's surveillance state
In India, surveillance is on the rise by the state to tackle crime and terrorism, and private companies are eager to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDon't Spy On Us - The day we fight back
A global day of action under the banner Don't Spy On Us against mass surveillance takes place on Tuesday 11 February...
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Published in: HomeTurkey’s nightmarish adventures in censorship and surveillance on the internet
As the mayoral elections are around the corner, authoritarian surveillance and the censorship of political content...
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Published in: openSecuritySelling dictatorshipLiberal opinion has been outraged by the disclosures about US and UK electronic surveillance. Yet the most...
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Published in: openSecurityLocal surveillance since 2001The almost exclusive focus on the NSA obscures the degree to which surveillance has become integrated into almost...
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Published in: openSecurityFrom utopia to dystopia: technology, society and what we can do about itThe superficial post-war dream that technology would solve the world’s social problems has transformed into a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Snowden and state surveillance in SpainLike most Europeans, Spaniards were shocked by revelations of extensive US spying on European citizens. Yet, there...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The new German surveillance state - Merkel, Snowden and the Euro Hawk droneIn principle, Germany is a state committed to democracy and international peace. This is why three recent political...
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Published in: ourNHSYour medical data in their hands - concerns mount over new NHS IT projectWhat was once a simple data warehouse for producing statistical information on patient care is to be transformed...
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Published in: HomeThe road from web 1.984
We are realising that the 'free' services we use online carry huge hidden costs. A totally administered society is...
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Published in: HomeMistaking omniscience for omnipotence
Everyone assumes the value of an increasingly para-militarized, bureaucratized, heavily funded creature we continue...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Orwellian arithmetic of mass surveillance
The justifications for indiscriminant mass surveillance are becoming increasingly absurd. False calls to patriotism...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNot just 4 lulz: Anonymous vs mass surveillance
Anonymous yesterday organised a simultaneous protest around the world against the revelations of mass surveillance...