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Lawsuit accuses LAPD officer of selling celebrity data
Lawsuit accuses LAPD officer of selling celebrity data
A Los Angeles police officer used department computers to access confidential law enforcement records of celebrities and sold the information to tabloids, according to a lawsuit recently settled by the city.
Posted by rshah on April 10, 2003| Comments (0)
Software pioneer exits Groove board
Software pioneer exits Groove board
The New York Times, citing a person close to Kapor, provided another reason for the departure, saying that Kapor was disturbed that Groove's software was a crucial part of an antiterrorist software being tested in the government's Total Information Awareness (TIA) program, under the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency.
Posted by rshah on March 11, 2003| Comments (0)
Feds Building Internet Monitoring Center
Feds Building Internet Monitoring Center
The "Global Early Warning Information System," (GEWIS, pronounced "gee-whiz") is being built by the National Communications System (NCS), a Defense agency established in 1962 to ensure that the government has access to adequate communications systems during national emergencies. It is unrelated to the Total Information Awareness program, a planned Defense Department program that would actively mine databases worldwide to uncover terrorist and other threats.
Posted by rshah on February 04, 2003| Comments (0)
Bush Administration to Propose System for Monitoring Internet
Bush Administration to Propose System for Monitoring Internet
The Bush administration is planning to propose requiring Internet service providers to help build a centralized system to enable broad monitoring of the Internet and, potentially, surveillance of its users.
Posted by rshah on December 20, 2002| Comments (0)
Agency Weighed, but Discarded, Plan Reconfiguring the Internet
Agency Weighed, but Discarded, Plan Reconfiguring the Internet
Pentagon research agency that is exploring how to create a vast database of electronic transactions and analyze them for potential terrorist activity considered but rejected another surveillance idea: tagging Internet data with unique personal markers to make anonymous use of some parts of the Internet impossible.
Posted by rshah on December 20, 2002| Comments (0)
Agency Weighed, but Discarded, Plan Reconfiguring the Internet
Agency Weighed, but Discarded, Plan Reconfiguring the Internet
Pentagon research agency that is exploring how to create a vast database of electronic transactions and analyze them for potential terrorist activity considered but rejected another surveillance idea: tagging Internet data with unique personal markers to make anonymous use of some parts of the Internet impossible.
Posted by rshah on November 25, 2002| Comments (0)
CIA Caught Sneaking Cookies
CIA Caught Sneaking Cookies
The CIA removed software from one of its Web sites this week after a private group discovered that the agency was using banned Internet tracking technology called "cookies," said Mike Stepp, who manages the CIA's public Web site.
Posted by rshah on September 12, 2002| Comments (0)
The FBI is asking for more information about what you do on the phone, and no one is saying no.
The FBI is asking for more information about what you do on the phone, and no one is saying no.
On April 11, the Federal Communications Commission ordered the telecom industry to upgrade their systems to meet a list of FBI specifications by June 30. The upgrades give the FBI expanded wiretapping capabilities, including the ability to extract specific information about phone calls without a warrant.
Posted by rshah on June 28, 2002| Comments (0)
CIA Web Site Cans Cookies After Report
CIA Web Site Cans Cookies After Report
A Web site operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) discontinued marking visitors with a unique identification tag, or "cookie," after a non-profit group complained about the practice. The use of "persistent" cookies at the CIA's Electronic Reading Room (ERR) site violated federal privacy guidelines and the agency's own privacy policy, according to Public Information Research (PIR), a Texas-based non-profit which reported the practice to the agency Friday.
Posted by rshah on March 19, 2002| Comments (0)
Antivirus firms balk at FBI loophole
Antivirus firms balk at FBI loophole
Antivirus software vendors said Monday they don't want to create a loophole in their security products to let the FBI or other government agencies use a virus to eavesdrop on the computer communications of suspected criminals.
Posted by rshah on December 11, 2001| Comments (0)
German Carriers Told To Install Cyber-Snooping Tech
German Carriers Told To Install Cyber-Snooping Tech
Surveillance of telco links has been legal - with a court order - for many years in Germany. The new legislation seeks to automate the process, and move the costs of surveillance from the government to the carriers, officials said.
Posted by rshah on October 26, 2001| Comments (0)
FBI Eyes Packet Taps
FBI Eyes Packet Taps
He says the FBI has spent the last two years developing a new surveillance architecture that would concentrate Internet traffic in several key locations where all packets, not just e-mail, could be wiretapped. It is now planning to begin implementing this architecture using the powers it has under existing wiretapping laws.
Posted by rshah on October 22, 2001| Comments (0)
Anti-Attack Feds Push Carnivore
Anti-Attack Feds Push Carnivore
Federal police are reportedly increasing Internet surveillance after the deadly attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Just hours after the incident, FBI agents began to visit Web-based, e-mail firms and network providers, according to engineers at those companies. An administrator at one major network service provider said that FBI agents showed up at his workplace on Tuesday "with a couple of Carnivores, requesting permission to place them in our core."
Posted by rshah on September 12, 2001| Comments (0)
Federal sites fail privacy test
Federal sites fail privacy test
WASHINGTON--The government is doing an inadequate job of complying with its own Internet privacy rules, according to a report Congress released June 15, 2001.
Posted by rshah on June 18, 2001| Comments (0)
Defense Department sites lax on privacy
Defense Department sites lax on privacy
WASHINGTON--One in four Web sites run by the Defense Department have no privacy statement posted, according to an oversight report.
Posted by rshah on June 05, 2001| Comments (0)
E-mail users warned over spy network
E-mail users warned over spy network
The Euro-MPs have been studying Echelon for almost a year, after allegations that it has been used by the US to commit industrial espionage against European firms. They conclude that Echelon - whose existence is not officially acknowledged - is reading millions of e-mails and faxes sent every day by ordinary people.
Posted by rshah on May 30, 2001| Comments (0)
Spy agency taps into undersea cable
Spy agency taps into undersea cable
For decades, the National Security Agency did most of its spying by plucking information out of thin air. With a global network of listening stations and satellites, the NSA eavesdropped on phone conversations in Saddam Hussein's bunker, snatched Soviet missile-launch secrets and once caught Brezhnev in his limousine chatting about his mistress, see also Slashdot
Posted by rshah on May 23, 2001| Comments (0)
Statewatch Observatory on Surveillance in Europe
Statewatch Observatory on Surveillance in Europe
This site has been launched, in cooperation with Privacy International, to bring together a number of disturbing developments in Europe. They have a global importance and are being developed by international fora, eg: G8 and ILETS (International Law Enforcement Telecommunications Seminar).
Posted by rshah on May 21, 2001| Comments (0)
Linking Records Raises Risks
Linking Records Raises Risks
In a report called Record Linkage and Privacy, the General Accounting Office posits that the ability of government research teams to ever more efficiently combine and cross-reference records from different agencies poses considerable privacy risks.
Posted by rshah on April 20, 2001| Comments (0)
Dutch Propose Digital Information Safes
Dutch Propose Digital Information Safes
A Dutch commission has called on the government to consider creating 17 million digital safe deposit boxes to allow all Dutch citizens to store their personal information. Each citizen would get up to 200 items of data including medical and financial information.
Posted by rshah on April 19, 2001| Comments (0)
Senator Raises Privacy as Federal Web Site Issue
Senator Raises Privacy as Federal Web Site Issue
D ozens of Web sites run by the federal government continue to violate consumer privacy rules put into effect by the Clinton administration, a United States senator said yesterday.
Posted by rshah on April 17, 2001| Comments (0)
Pew releases 'Carnivore' survey.
Pew releases 'Carnivore' survey.
The Pew Internet & American Life Project released a survey on public attitudes in regard to online crime & governmental attempts to combat it. "Some 54% of Americans approve of the idea of FBI monitoring of suspects' email, while 34% disapprove." "Forty-five percent of people who have heard of it say Carnivore is good because it will allow the FBI a new way of tracking down criminals. Another 45% say Carnivore is bad because it could be used to read emails to and from ordinary citizens."
Posted by rshah on April 03, 2001| Comments (0)
Safeweb Helps the CIA To Mask Its Moves on the Web
Safeweb Helps the CIA To Mask Its Moves on the Web
SafeWeb suggests that the CIA also might use its technology to allow its far-flung agents and informants to communicate home, without the countries they are spying on ever knowing. The CIA was very interested in Triangle Boy, a software package that can turn any personal computer into a surrogate Web server. The system allows users to navigate to any number of innocuous PC addresses, and then go to the actual Web site they are seeking -- without leaving a trace.
Posted by rshah on February 13, 2001| Comments (0)
FBI Renames Carnivore: "DCS1000
FBI Renames Carnivore: "DCS1000
Posted by rshah on February 12, 2001| Comments (0)
Carnivore and Privacy
Carnivore and Privacy
from NY Times
Posted by rshah on February 08, 2001| Comments (0)
Report on FBI's Carnivore OKs Continued Use
Report on FBI's Carnivore OKs Continued Use
The Illinois Institute of Technology released its analysis of the FBI's controversial email surveillance system, concluding that Carnivore "does not provide protections, especially audit functions, commensurate with the level of the risks." However, the report recommended the continued use of the system "when precise collection is required because Carnivore can be configured to reflect the limitation of a court order."
Posted by rshah on November 22, 2000| Comments (0)
New automobile safety devices
Posted by rshah on October 24, 2000| Comments (0)
Open Source version of Carnivore
Open Source version of Carnivore
Posted by rshah on September 25, 2000| Comments (0)
Government Sites Get an 'F' on Privacy
Government Sites Get an 'F' on Privacy
Posted by rshah on September 19, 2000| Comments (0)
Carnivore - FBI Surveillance System
Carnivore - FBI Surveillance System
See also, Slashdot
Posted by rshah on July 11, 2000| Comments (0)
Echelon: US Government Surveillance System
Echelon: US Government Surveillance System
ZDNET's coverage of Echelon
Posted by rshah on July 07, 2000| Comments (0)
British
British
British government MI5 builds centre to snoop on email
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)
Wiretap
Wiretap
Government statistics
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)
Office of National Drug Control & DoubleClick
Office of National Drug Control & DoubleClick
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)
Canada's Single Mega Database Scrapped
Canada's Single Mega Database Scrapped
Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)