surveillance

La campagne d’action collective contre la Technopolice se termine dans quelques semaines. Notre plainte contre le Ministère de l’Intérieur (que vous pouvez encore rejoindre ici) vise notamment deux fichiers étatiques massifs : le fichier TAJ et le fichier TES. À travers eux, nous attaquons des outils omniprésents et structurants de la surveillance policière.

Economist Shir Hever on cyber mercenaries, weapons lobbyists and the collapse of Israel’s infrastructure.

EI editors discuss some of the most impactful stories of the year.

Video shows what may amount to extrajudicial execution.

Microsoft, Google, LinkedIn and Github back Facebook in legal fight against Israeli spy firm.

Activists confront major corporations complicit in settlements and weapon supplies.

Economist Shir Hever discusses Israel’s private arms and security sector.

The moment that my international flight landed in Shanghai, China, I tried out a new VPN service on my cell phone. I’d heard about the app while studying abroad; the company promised it could bypass China’s “Great Firewall” to access YouTube, Netflix, and other government-blocked sites with lightning speed.

So I logged into my account, but kept getting the same message: “Unable to establish a connection to your selected server.”

Israel’s notorious NSO Group is looking to capitalize on coronavirus.

AnyVision supplies facial recognition technology to Israel’s army, violating Microsoft’s ethical principles.

Mobile tracking scheme to enforce quarantine reveals previously unreported Shin Bet data collection.

Source : Byline Times, Nafeez Ahmed, 24-05-2019

Comment IBM a conçu le dispositif de surveillance chinois

New State Department rules, effective since May of this year, require applicants for visas to enter the United States to disclose all of their social media accounts, including those that use a pseudonym. The applications are shared widely within the US government, and in some cases with other governments.

Are the agencies and tools intended to combat international terrorism being used more broadly against US citizens?

Ultra-liberal Berkeley, California, has been the scene of provocative demonstrations staged by right-wing groups in recent years that have sparked clashes with anti-fascist groups.

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Hatem Bazian tells us how Israeli agents harassed his family.

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Source : The Intercept, Ava Kofman, 13-11-2018

Illustration: Soohee Cho/The Intercept, Getty Images

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Source : The Intercept, Cora Currier, 17-09-2018

Cora Currier

17 septembre 2018

Photo : Frank Fife/AFP/Getty Images

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Source : Quartz, Jeff Nesbit, 08-12-2017

Ils surveillent en permanence. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)

Jeff Nesbit

Ancien directeur des affaires législatives et publiques, National Science Foundation

8 Décembre 2017

Source : TV5 Monde, Pascal Hérard, 11.06.2018

California State University East Bay, University of Oregon urge divestment from Israeli occupation profiteers.

Orwellian technology, capable of monitoring your every message and conversation, may be coming to your office soon.

In keeping with the management adage, “What you can’t measure, you can’t manage,” new employee monitoring methods called talent analytics (or workforce analytics) are hitting the corporate market.

Police and government surveillance of the residents of Chicago is already so infamous nationally that software developers a few years ago created an interactive game, Watch Dogs, which invites clever gamers to evade and escape the digital surveillance of state authorities there.

But privacy may soon be even harder to come by in America’s third largest city.

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Coleen Rowley is a former FBI special agent whose bravery as a whistleblower exposed many of the FBI’s pre-9/11 failures. She was named one of Time magazine’s “Persons of the Year” in 2002. This week she talks with Jeff Schechtman about the recent shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Rowley accentuates two problems with the FBI. One, that local threats — even in high schools — are not the province of the FBI. It would, however, have been the bureau’s job to make sure that local law enforcement was aware of the tips it received.

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The Senate has scheduled a procedural vote Tuesday afternoon on a bill that would extend the controversial Section 702 of FISA. Critics of the legislation say it allows the government to surveil American citizens without a warrant. Its proponents claim it is a valuable tool in the fight against terrorism.

And President Donald Trump? Well, he says both. Last week, he first tweeted this:

Like most major 20th century writers the FBI has a brief file on Aldous Huxley - the 'author and social critic' behind Brave New World, Island and The Doors of Perception. Huxley was never the subject of a Bureau investigation but they kept tabs on some of his public appearances and statements.

Source : Vimeo, Marc Meillassoux, 06-09-2017

The Trump administration is calling for the prompt reauthorization of a controversial part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Section 702 permits eavesdropping on high-value targets, including those designated as suspected terrorists, cyber actors, and others. FISA has been extended again and again, and, despite repeated assurances of safeguards, numerous examples of excesses and potential violations of Americans’ privacy have come to light.

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In this month's subscriber-only podcast I review the TV series Braindead, which is about an invading army of extraterrestrial bugs who burrow into people's heads and eat their brains.