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La cybersurveillance légalisée au Royaume-Uni ? - 17 mars 2016
"Nous savons ce que vous avez fait l’été dernier" est la phrase que les policiers britanniques pourront prochainement dire à n’importe quel concitoyen. Le Big Brother prend le contrôle de l’Internet outre-Manche.
Les services secrets britanniques œuvrent depuis 2014 pour pouvoir surveiller les citoyens du pays sur (...)
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Editors urge David Cameron to tighten police snooping rules - 20 janvier 2015
Prime minister asked to intervene to help protect journalists’ phones and communications records
More than 100 senior editors representing every UK national newspaper, the regional press and broadcasters have signed a letter urging David Cameron to intervene to help protect journalists’ phones and communications (...)
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Cameron’s call for banning encryption undermines our rights, security - 14 janvier 2015
In the wake of tragic attacks in France, politicians from across the world are calling for dramatically expanded surveillance powers, to spy on our phonecalls, ban encrypted communications such as WhatsApp and iMessage, and store details about our international travels for years on end.
If it feels like you’ve (...)
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"˜Freedom of expression’ anti-snooping campaign launched over Ripa changes - 13 janvier 2015
Campaigners fear draft code of Ripa legislation will allow police sweeping powers to access phone and email records of journalists, lawyers and doctors
An urgent campaign has been launched for a "freedom of expression" law to protect confidential journalists’, MPs’ and lawyers’ phone and communications records (...)
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The legality of deploying Regin by GCHQ - 25 novembre 2014
In the last two days multiple security vendors, newspapers and experts have weighed in on the existence of the "Regin" malware, among the most sophisticated ever discovered, and its possible origins at GCHQ and the NSA. The Intercept has now confirmed Regin was the malware found on infected internal computer (...)
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Le Royaume-Uni peut piocher dans les données personnelles sans mandat - 29 octobre 2014
Les États-Unis et le Royaume-Uni disposent d’un accord leur permettant d’échanger des informations obtenus via leurs services de renseignements respectifs. Problème : les anglais fustigent une récupération de données personnelles auprès de la NSA permettant de contourner les garde-fous mis en place par la législation du (...)
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Le Royaume-Uni veut contrer un effacement des logs de connexion - 29 juillet 2014
Le 8 avril dernier, la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne (CJUE) a invalidé la directive « Data Retention », jugée contraire au droit européen. C’est par cette directive que des États membres obligent les intermédiaires techniques à conserver les données de trafic en matière de téléphonie fixe et mobile, d’accès à (...)
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The Government is trying to create a surveillance state - 22 juillet 2014
The "snooper’s charter" Drip legislation is a massive encroachment on rights and freedoms of British voters
One of the most shocking discoveries from Edward Snowden’s disclosures was that GCHQ, the British intelligence agency, is tapping undersea cables to harvest the communications of people from all around the (...)
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UK intelligence forced to reveal secret policy for mass surveillance of residents’ Facebook and Google use - 19 juin 2014
Britain’s top counter-terrorism official has been forced to reveal a secret Government policy justifying the mass surveillance of every Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Google user in the UK.
This disturbing policy was made public due to a legal challenge brought by Privacy International, Liberty, Amnesty (...)
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Can Google really keep spies out of our email ? - 9 juin 2014
The offer of better encryption for Gmail users will improve security, but it won’t necessarily keep GCHQ out of our email
So Google has decided to provide end-to-end encryption for any of its Gmail users who wants it. One could ask "what took you so long ?" but that would be churlish. (Some of us were unkind (...)
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No more NSA spying ? Sorry, Mr Obama, but that’s not true - 30 mars 2014
An end to the ’bulk collection’ of phone records won’t stop the NSA from snooping on us online
Last week in the Hague, Barack Obama seemed to have suddenly remembered the oath he swore on his inauguration as president "“ that stuff about preserving, protecting and defending the constitution of the United States. At (...)
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Pakistani human rights group sues UK government for discriminatory GCHQ surveillance - 11 janvier 2014
A Pakistani human rights group is suing the UK government for breaching its privacy and discriminating against it while carrying out mass surveillance under the Tempora programme.
Bytes for All (B4A) defends digital rights in Pakistan and is partnered with Privacy International, a European campaign group that (...)
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How telcos ’collude’ with the NSA and GCHQ - 12 novembre 2013
Google and Yahoo were quick to condemn the NSA for spying on their customers, but telecom firms remained conspicuously silent - and for good reason. Privacy International has filed a complaint against them with the OECD.
Google and Yahoo weren’t slow to express their fury last week when it emerged that the (...)
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Finally, a grown-up debate about communications surveillance - 12 décembre 2012
Twelve years after the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) was passed by the UK Parliament, permitting the interception of communications without a judicial warrant and allowing the police to self-authorise access to communications metadata, some parts of this dangerous law are finally being properly (...)
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Tout le monde à droit à son 1/4h d’anonymat - 2 novembre 2012
« Dans le futur, chacun aura droit à 15 minutes de célébrité mondiale », avait prophétisé Andy Warhol, en 1968. En 2010, 42 (!) ans plus tard, je m’étais permis de rétorqué que, et a contrario, « dans le futur, chacun aura droit à son quart d’heure d’anonymat ».
Clemence Mercy m’avait croisé à Londres, il y a près d’un an, lors (...)
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Former NoW executive and private eye arrested - 2 octobre 2012
Officers investigating alleged computer hacking have arrested Alex Marunchak and private investigator Jonathan Rees
Scotland Yard officers investigating alleged computer hacking made two further arrests on Tuesday, detaining the former News of the World executive Alex Marunchak and private investigator Jonathan (...)
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New report : Calling time on the grim RIPA - 23 août 2012
Our latest report, "˜A legacy of surveillance"˜, looks at how the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act has been used by both local and public authorities in recent years.
A decade on and more than three million authorisations later, our research found how there is still a great deal of uncertainty about how and (...)
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Les Britanniques espionnés en sortant leurs poubelles - 23 août 2012
Des associations de défense des libertés civiles dénoncent l’utilisation abusive des lois antiterroristes.
Les Britanniques sont rarement seuls. Ils sont non seulement surveillés par plus de 1,8 million de caméras CCTV dans tout le Royaume-Uni, mais en plus espionnés par les municipalités lorsqu’ils sortent leurs chiens (...)
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This is not surveillance as we know it : the anatomy of Facebook messages - 23 août 2012
Modern communications surveillance policy is about gaining access to modern communications. The problem is that the discourse around communications policy today is almost the same as it was when it was simply a question of gaining access to telephone communications. "Police need access to social network activity (...)
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Security services to get more access to monitor emails and social media - 28 juillet 2012
Britain has quietly agreed to new European standards on electronic communications
Britain has quietly agreed to measures that could increase the ability of the security services to intercept online communications, experts say.
Although the Home Office is at pains to stress that the draft communications and data (...)
