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The U.S. Government Is Monitoring All Phone Calls, All Emails And All Internet Activity

by Michael

Big Brother is watching everything that you do on the Internet and listening to everything that you say on your phone. Every single day in America, the U.S. government intercepts and stores nearly 2 billion emails, phone calls and other forms of electronic communication. Former NSA employees have come forward and have described exactly what is taking place, and this surveillance activity has been reported on by prominent news organizations [...]

Bill C30: Canada’s warrantless surveillance bill is back, and bigger than ever, with surveillance powers for US gov’t

Bill C30, the sweeping Canadian warrantless Internet surveillance bill, is back from the dead. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews (who declared that opposition to his bill was tantamount to support for pedophiles) has been working behind the scenes to resurrect his legislation, joining forces with the US government in the name of “perimeter security.” This proposed deal would expand the warrantless surveillance to US authorities, who could also access Canadians’ [...]

The Cybersecurity Act (S. 2105) Threatens Online Rights – a Handout for Your Senator

Rainey Reitman
EFF

Worried about the Lieberman-Collins Cybersecurity Act? You should be. As we’ve explained before, it poses serious threats to online rights.

Here’s a one-page handout you can use as a reference. It’s great for sharing with friends, handing to Senate staffers, publishing online, or using as talking points when explaining the issue to someone for the first time. Download it here and please spread it around!

The Cybersecurity Act (S. 2105), sponsored by Sen. Lieberman and Sen. Collins, [...]

GOOGLE to warn users targeted by state-sponsored attacks

UPDATE: A senior Senate aide confirmed that this evening he received a warning on his Gmail account that Google suspected he had been the target of a state-sponsored cyber attack.

Web giant Google is about to announce a new warning informing Gmail users when a specific type of attacker is trying to hijack their accounts — governments and their proxies.

Later today, the company will announce a new warning system that will [...]

Warning: The 377 words you should never use online

From Sovereign Man:

One of breakout standup routines from the late, great George Carlin was his 1972 monologue “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television.” In the presence of polite company, I shall not repeat them… but rest assured, the routine is still hilarious to this day.

I wish I could say the same about the Department of Homeland Security… I wish I could say this is all a big joke… [...]

Inventor of world wide web savages govt’s Big Brother plans

Guardian.co.uk

The government’s controversial plans to allow intelligence agencies to monitor the internet use and digital communications of every person in the UK suffered a fresh blow on Tuesday when the inventor of the world wide web warned that the measures were dangerous and should be dropped.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who serves as an adviser to the government on how to make public data more accessible, says the extension of the state’s surveillance powers would be a [...]

How to protect yourself from the growing threat of police corruption

From LewRockwell.com:

So what are innocent people to do when the boys in blue are just as likely to be a criminal as anyone else off the street?

Is your information really protected when access is limited to law enforcement, riddled with police corruption? Your internet activity, phone records, phone location, bank records, and lots of other information are searchable by law enforcement. And what about the information that you are required [...]

Telegraph: Internet activity ‘to be monitored’ under new UK laws

From Telegraph:

Under legislation expected in next month’s Queen’s Speech, internet companies will be instructed to install hardware enabling GCHQ – the Government’s electronic “listening” agency – to examine “on demand” any phone call made, text message and email sent, and website accessed in “real time”, The Sunday Times reported.

A previous attempt to introduce a similar law was abandoned by the former Labour government in 2006 in the face of fierce [...]

10 Reasons Why Nothing You Do On The Internet Will EVER Be Private Again

The American Dream

The Internet is rapidly being transformed into a Big Brother control grid where privacy rights are being systematically strangled to death. The control freaks that run things have become absolutely obsessed with watching, tracking, monitoring and recording virtually everything that you do on the Internet. One thing that you can count on is that nothing you do on the Internet will ever be private again. In fact, if you are [...]

Canadian legislation will require internet service providers to log internet activity of all customers and provide information to government and police. The government says anyone who is against the bill is siding with child pronographers

Canada’s privacy commissioners will be surprised to hear it, but the Conservatives are accusing anyone who opposes their bill to give police new powers to monitor the Internet of supporting child pornography.

A similar comment might have cost Stephen Harper the 2004 election. But with the next election years away, it’s hard to know whether or when Public Safety Minister Vic Toews will change his tune.

Mr. Toews will introduce Lawful Access [...]

According To The FBI, Internet Privacy Is Now Considered To Be Suspicious Activity

When you use the Internet in a public place, do you prefer to have as much privacy as possible? Well, that makes you a potential terrorist. According to the FBI, Internet privacy is now considered to be suspicious activity. If you are out in public and you attempt to keep snoopers from peeking at your computer screen, then according to the FBI they should gather as much information about you as [...]

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