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Israeli firm sold web spy kit to Iran, report says

An Israeli company sold internet surveillance products to Iran despite a trade ban, a report has suggested... Read more

23 December, 2011

Tougher interception laws to reach Twitter

...had not officially involved them in drawing up its plans to extend internet surveillance, even though the providers themselves would be responsible for handling the... Read more

9 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner
Internet freedom: world's strictest regimes

Internet freedom: world's strictest regimes

...internet, the Western-educated leader has moved slowly. Syria engages in centralised internet surveillance through a couple of government bodies (the Syrian Telecommunications Establishment and... Read more

1 February, 2011 by Staff
Tor Browser Bundle 2.2.35-5

Tor Browser Bundle 2.2.35-5

Using Tor protects you against a common form of Internet surveillance known as "traffic analysis." Traffic analysis can be used to infer... Read more

10 February, 2012

Homeland Security bill becomes US law

...Homeland Security, he started a process that will reshuffle bureaucracies, permit greater Internet surveillance and refocus the government's computer security efforts. The authors of... Read more

26 November, 2002 by Declan McCullagh

A Year Ago: Government backtracks on Internet surveillance

Government offers to weaken cyber-snooping bill, but some say the changes are only superficial Read more

27 June, 2001 by Will Knight

Government backtracks on Internet surveillance

Government offers to weaken cyber-snooping bill, but some say the changes are only superficial Read more

27 June, 2000 by Will Knight

Russia establishes Internet surveillance network

ISPs had to pay for surveillance network themselves, according to Russian report Read more

8 December, 1999 by Will Knight

Employee surveillance unaffected by terror threat

...President Bush a year ago, law enforcement received more power to conduct Internet surveillance and seek information from private companies. Interviews with government officials, privacy... Read more

29 October, 2002 by Declan McCullagh

ZDNet, privacy experts set crypto conference

...in a series of public conferences on cryptography policy, e-commerce and Internet surveillance begins Thursday, 23 September Read more

16 September, 1999 by Richard Barry

Technologists assail federal Net-tapping rules

...especially from Senator Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, over its telephone and Internet surveillance programme overseen by the National Security Agency. AT&T is being... Read more

13 June, 2006 by Anne Broache and Declan McCullagh

Amnesty condemns tech firms over human rights

...Amnesty International UK and an Internet surveillance monitoring organisation have claimed that several large technology companies are guilty... Read more

1 June, 2006 by Tom Espiner

'Unprecedented' music piracy case hits courts

...in December 2002 after it was picked up by the MIPI's Internet surveillance activities. According to MIPI, usage statistics for the Web site showed... Read more

25 October, 2004 by Abby Dinham

Bush pushes for expansion of surveillance law

...the renewal of the USA Patriot Act, the controversial law that expanded Internet surveillance powers for police but partially expires next year. Using the pageantry... Read more

21 January, 2004 by Declan McCullagh

Privacy is reborn in the USA

...the US Senate voted to grant the Federal Bureau of Investigation sweeping Internet surveillance powers that in some cases would not require a judge's... Read more

1 August, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

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Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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UnderINK

I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

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Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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Jason Burchell

seriously now. I've only bothered to read a small bit of the comments. do me and the rest of the world a favour. stop saying it does not work or...

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