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Russia establishes Internet surveillance network
News To add insult to injury, according to the Moscow Times, 350 Internet companies also had to help pay for this new surveillance network. Read about how and why in Surveillance, a ZDNet News Special. The Russian government has introduced a...
[December 8, 1999, 15:28]
Government backtracks on Internet surveillance
News The government tabled amendments to a controversial cyber-surveillance bill Monday that would weaken its snooping powers but may prevent more serious changes from being made. Read about how and why in Surveillance, a ZDNet News Special.
[June 27, 2000, 15:44]
A Year Ago: Government backtracks on Internet surveillance
News The government tabled amendments to a controversial cyber-surveillance bill Monday that would weaken its snooping powers but may prevent more serious changes from being made. Read about how and why in Surveillance, a ZDNet News Special.
[June 27, 2001, 6:06]
Remotely Managed Internet Cameras Deliver Low-Cost IP Surveillance Monitoring and Automation
White Papers Internet Protocol cameras (IP cameras) enable anyone with access credentials and a standard browser to remotely monitor, control and record video from any location with Internet or private network connectivity.
[May 17, 2009, 1:48]
Bush pushes for expansion of surveillance law
News President Bush on Tuesday evening called for the renewal of the USA Patriot Act, the controversial law that expanded Internet surveillance powers for police but partially expires next year. One section that will expire permits police to conduct...
[January 21, 2004, 9:25]
Amnesty condemns tech firms over human rights
News Amnesty International UK and an Internet surveillance monitoring organisation have claimed that several large technology companies are guilty of collaborating with "repressive" governmental regimes. Open Net Initiative (ONI), an Internet...
[June 1, 2006, 15:30]
Jack Straw wins coveted Menace Award
News Home secretary Jack Straw scooped a lifetime cybersnoop award from civil rights groups Monday for his role in implementing new Internet surveillance laws in Britain. Now it could be argued that Britain is one of the foremost surveillance countries...
[December 5, 2000, 11:53]
CIA funds chatroom surveillance
News The CIA is quietly funding federal research into surveillance of Internet chatrooms as part of an effort to identify possible terrorists, newly released documents reveal. The NSF grant for chatroom surveillance was reported earlier this year, but...
[November 25, 2004, 7:35]
Anti-snooping gurus converge on London
News The world's experts on surveillance and privacy will converge in London this Friday to discuss the growth of government snooping in the Internet age. The International Surveillance by Design conference to be held at the London School of Economics...
[September 19, 2000, 13:19]
Privacy advocates make plea to Echelon committee
News Privacy organisation Cyber-Rights and Cyber-Liberties has submitted its objections to Internet surveillance ahead of a meeting in the European Parliament today. Secret surveillance and interception of all forms of communications including Internet...
[March 22, 2001, 7:15]
A Year Ago: Father of the Web lambastes cyber snooping bill
News British scientist Tim Berners-Lee, credited as the founding father of the World Wide Web, publicly damned British legislation proposing increased Internet surveillance and controls over online privacy Sunday.
[June 11, 2001, 6:28]
Father of the Web lambastes cyber snooping bill
News British scientist Tim Berners-Lee, credited as the founding father of the World Wide Web, publicly damned British legislation proposing increased Internet surveillance and controls over online privacy Sunday.
[June 12, 2000, 10:06]
Experts: Carnivore review had no teeth
News A who's who among corporate and academic security researchers on Monday criticised a government-funded review of the FBI's Carnivore Internet surveillance system as "limited" and "inadequate". Read about how and why in Surveillance, a ZDNet News...
[December 5, 2000, 8:52]
Spector
Downloads That is the idea behind the number one selling Internet Monitoring and Surveillance software, Spector. Spector automatically takes hundreds of snapshots every hour, very much like a surveillance camera.
[May 13, 2004, 8:00]
FBI seeks power to eavesdrop on Net
News Representatives of the FBI's Electronic Surveillance Technology Section have met at least twice in the past three weeks with senior officials of the Federal Communications Commission to lobby for proposed new Internet-eavesdropping rules.
[July 29, 2003, 14:21]
Experts: Press threatened by cybersnooping
News The UK government has recently granted wide powers to law enforcement concerning surveillance of Internet communications in the form of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act. New government surveillance powers pose a grave threat to the...
[October 5, 2000, 14:29]
Surveillance: Privacy versus policework - the debate
News Demon Internet reckons it will have to spend £1m a year to meet the government's requirements on surveillance. Surveillance is necessary on the Internet. Surveillance is necessary on the Internet" -- Keith Akerman.
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
Cybercrime treaty may conflict with UN declaration
News Yaman Akdeniz, director of Cyber Rights & Cyber Liberties is expected to warn that developing techniques to combat high-tech crime could lead to unjustified Internet surveillance. He will caution that plans put forward by the Council of Europe and...
[December 12, 2000, 13:30]
US Web snooping plan draws fire
News The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is moving to create an automated surveillance system that would scour the Internet for people who violate securities law. America Online, whose boards are cited in the SEC document as a surveillance...
[March 29, 2000, 9:12]
Carnivore review: A 'stacked deck?'
News The American Civil Liberties Union and a congressional leader have roundly criticised the Department of Justice, saying it "stacked the deck" when it appointed a committee to review the FBI's Carnivore Internet surveillance system.
[October 5, 2000, 8:19]
