surveillance
Bloomberg accused of "snooping" on customers for journalistic gain
A brouhaha is brewing after claims late last week that financial media giant Bloomberg had been using its proprietary data terminals to snoop on its customers.
Intriguingly, the Bloomberg fuss is as much about what you *didn't* say or search for as what you did...
US seeks to pressure Google, Facebook et al. into installing wiretapping backdoors
A new proposal would require tech firms to design surveillance-enabling trapdoors from the ground up or modify existing services, facilities and equipment. The FBI says it's necessary to quickly catch terrorists and child abusers, but others say it's a recipe for opening servers up to hacking and illicit surveillance.
"Government seeks a warrant to hack" - US judge gives his decision
Do you usually shy away from legal documents?
Well, here's one that's well worth reading: it deals very interestingly with the zone in which busting cybercrooks and protecting privacy intersect...
Skype in hot water over failure to let French police eavesdrop
French telecom regulators have suggested that Skype could face charges for failing to register as a telecom and do all the things that French telecoms are supposed to do - for example, let French police eavesdrop on calls...
Google: Government surveillance of the internet is on the rise
Google has released its semi-annual Transparency Report, saying that it received more than 20,000 requests for user data in the first half of 2012 - a sign of greater government surveillance.
Feds snooping on email activity and social networks, without warrants - and it's on the rise
Documents released by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday show that law enforcement agencies in the U.S. have greatly increased surveillance of Americans’ electronic communications – often without a warrant or judicial oversight.
Kim Dotcom now a "real life James Bond villain" in latest Megaupload dot bombshell
Things just got even more exciting/weird/incredible (delete as inapplicable) in the up-down-left-right saga of Kim Dotcom and Megaupload.
Kiwi Prime Minister, John Key, has just weighed into the battle over the way his own intelligence service garnered evidence in the case.
WikiLeaks.org is crippled under a massive DDoS. Is the TrapWire leak to blame?
WikiLeaks says it is the victim of a massive DDoS. Is it because it leaked TrapWire's surveillance system that makes use of real-time facial profiling to search databases of red-flagged individuals?
Telecom firm says "No" to FBI surveillance demands
In a case that has been cloaked in secrecy, a phone company is fighting an FBI request to access customer records.
Nov 5: the end of Facebook? No! The start of Kiwicon...
This year, more than 600 cybersecurity experts from Asia Pacific and beyond will attend Kiwicon V for a weekend of conferencing, conversation and conviviality.
I'll be listening with great interest and reporting on topics which I think will interest you too.
Canada mulls warrantless internet info-gathering powers for police
A bill before the Canadian parliament includes two clauses specifically to reduce the 'due process' imposed when the cops need information from ISPs.
It's obvious how this would help law enforcement. But it might help the cybercrooks, too.
Public privacy
The Minister of Transport for New South Wales, David Campbell, announced at the start of this week the name of the successful bidder for Sydney's new electronic ticketing system. The new system is supposed to deliver integrated contactless electronic ticketing Read more…
Full surveillance internet society?
Queensland, Australia, is reeling from the news of two child murders in the past two weeks. 12-year-old Elliott Fletcher was stabbed to death last week at school; 8-year-old Trinity Bates was killed and dumped in a storm drain just 100 Read more…
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