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Why using Google VPN is a terrible idea - 3 novembre 2020
If there has ever been a year that demonstrates how central the internet is to society, it is 2020. We have relied on the internet this year for work, entertainment, and to keep us close to family. But the freedom and privacy of the internet are under attack. We have seen authoritarian governments around the (...)
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NSA Spying - 5 octobre 2020
What is the NSA domestic spying program ?
In October 2001, President Bush issued a secret presidential order authorizing the NSA to conduct a range of surveillance activities inside of the United States without statutory authorization or court approval, including electronic surveillance of Americans’ telephone and (...)
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Future EU-US data transfers ? EU must push back on the US’s surveillance game - 2 octobre 2020
Brussels & Washington DC — Access Now and the American Civil Liberties Union are calling on the European Commission to press the United States to reform its surveillance laws, so that any future instrument for EU-US data transfers complies with EU law and withstands judicial scrutiny.
The groups are set to (...)
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Court Approves Warrantless Surveillance Rules While Scolding F.B.I. - 7 septembre 2020
The release of a newly declassified ruling follows a separate decision by an appeals court that a defunct National Security Agency program was illegal.
WASHINGTON — The nation’s surveillance court found that the F.B.I. had committed “widespread violations” of rules intended to protect Americans’ privacy when analysts (...)
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EU websites’ use of Google Analytics and Facebook Connect targeted by post-Schrems II privacy complaints - 18 août 2020
A month after Europe’s top court struck down a flagship data transfer arrangement between the EU and the US as unsafe, European privacy campaign group, noyb, has filed complaints against 101 websites with regional operators which it’s identified as still sending data to the US via Google Analytics and/or Facebook (...)
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RGPD : 101 entités européennes attaquées pour transfert illégal de données vers les États-Unis - 18 août 2020
Noyb.eu dépose 101 recours auprès des autorités de contrôle. Ils visent autant d’entreprises et organismes installés en UE et dans l’Espace économique européen. En cause ? La transmission de données à Google et Facebook aux États-Unis, en contrariété avec le RGPD et une décision récente de la Cour de justice européenne.
Après (...)
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Left-Right Alliance Takes Aim At Surveillance Bill - 28 mai 2020
President Donald Trump on Wednesday issued a rare veto threat, promising to reject a renewal of his surveillance authorities if approved by the House of Representatives.
If the FISA Bill is passed tonight on the House floor, I will quickly VETO it. Our Country has just suffered through the greatest political (...)
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Facebook told my followers I was spreading misinformation about government surveillance. I wasn’t. - 25 mai 2020
Calling for more censorship — or for Big Tech companies to become the arbiters of truth — will ultimately backfire. We need to address the problem of viral disinformation at its root.
Okay I’ll admit it. I still use Facebook. When I logged on last night I saw something I had never seen before : a notification that (...)
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Coronavirus Spending Bill Could Be Used to Cement Spying Authorities - 14 mars 2020
The congressional effort to rein in the government’s surveillance powers before a looming deadline on March 15 could run up against a new opponent : a new coronavirus.
House Democrats have been working on plans to further amend a provision of the Patriot Act, which as of 2015 provides a way for the government to (...)
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Secret F.B.I. Subpoenas Scoop Up Personal Data From Scores of Companies - 14 décembre 2019
The F.B.I. has used secret subpoenas to obtain personal data from far more companies than previously disclosed, newly released documents show.
The requests, which the F.B.I. says are critical to its counterterrorism efforts, have raised privacy concerns for years but have been associated mainly with tech (...)
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EFF Report Shows FBI Is Failing to Address First Amendment Harms Caused By National Security Letters - 14 décembre 2019
EFF has long fought to end the FBI’s ability to impose gag orders via National Security Letters (NSLs). They violate the First Amendment and result in indefinite prohibitions on recipients’ ability to speak publicly about controversial government surveillance powers. Records and data released by the FBI earlier this (...)
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Apple a livré légalement des données aux Etats - 28 mai 2018
Apple a annoncé dans son rapport de transparence qu’il commencerait bientôt à signaler aussi les suppressions d’applications de ses app stores.
Le dernier rapport de transparence d’Apple est sorti. Les nouveaux chiffres du rapport semestriel sur la transparence de la société pour 2017 montrent qu’Apple a reçu 29.718 (...)
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The NSA’s voice-recognition system raises hard questions for Echo and Google Home - 23 janvier 2018
Are Amazon and Google doing enough to keep spies out ?
Suppose you’re looking for a single person, somewhere in the world. (We’ll call him Waldo.) You know who he is, nearly everything about him, but you don’t know where he’s hiding. How do you find him ?
The scale is just too great for anything but a computerized (...)
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Congress Is Debating Warrantless Surveillance in the Dark - 14 janvier 2018
In 2013, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden famously brought to light a series of classified US government spying programs. For the first time, the American people learned that the NSA was collecting millions of their phone calls and electronic communications"”emails, Facebook messages, (...)
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Le Congrès américain en passe de confirmer un programme massif de surveillance - 14 janvier 2018
Révélée en 2013 par Edward Snowden, l’utilisation très large du « FISA 702 » par le renseignement américain heurte la protection de la vie privée.
Les membres de la Chambre des représentants des États-Unis étaient appelés à se prononcer jeudi 11 janvier sur le renouvellement du FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (...)
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USA : Donald Trump a nommé un partisan de la surveillance de masse à la tête du Conseil chargé de protéger la vie privée des Américains - 2 septembre 2017
Donald Trump veut ressusciter le Conseil américain de surveillance de la vie privée et des libertés civiles (PCLOB), en lui nommant un nouveau membre et président, mais son choix fait encore une fois l’objet de nombreuses critiques. Certains défenseurs de la vie privée estiment en effet que son choix ne vise qu’à (...)
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N.S.A. Halts Collection of Americans’ Emails About Foreign Targets - 1er mai 2017
The National Security Agency said Friday that it had halted one of the most disputed practices of its warrantless surveillance program, ending a once-secret form of wiretapping that dates to the Bush administration’s post-Sept. 11 expansion of national security powers.
The agency is no longer collecting Americans’ (...)
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NSA Backs Down on Major Surveillance Program That Captured Americans’ Communications Without a Warrant - 30 avril 2017
The National Security Agency on Friday suddenly announced it is curtailing one of its major surveillance programs.
Under pressure from the secret court that oversees its practices, the NSA said its "upstream" program would no longer grab communications directly from the U.S. internet backbone "about" specific (...)
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FBI quietly changes its privacy rules for accessing NSA data on Americans - 9 mars 2016
Classified revisions accepted by secret Fisa court affect NSA data involving Americans’ international emails, texts and phone calls
The FBI has quietly revised its privacy rules for searching data involving Americans’ international communications that was collected by the National Security Agency, US officials have (...)
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La NSA n’aura plus d’accès illimité aux données téléphoniques - 30 novembre 2015
L’agence nationale de sécurité américaine (NSA) a officiellement mis fin, dans la nuit de samedi 28 à dimanche 29 novembre, à son programme de collecte des données téléphoniques dévoilé par les révélations d’Edward Snowden en 2013. Une fermeture symbolique, puisqu’un délai technique l’empêchait déjà de fonctionner depuis juin. (...)
