Recent executive orders and presidential memorandums go beyond even the Patriot Act in facilitating nebulous and overreaching state surveillance.
Patrick Lawrence: Trump’s ‘End of History’ Moment
Tag: Surveillance
Hedges Report: On Israel Exporting Occupation Technology
Antony Loewenstein discusses the ease with which Israel has used Gaza to experiment with tools of war and surveillance as a means of control as well as profit thanks to their grave human rights abuses.
US, UK Spy Flights & the Murder of Gazan Innocents
The presence of U.S. aircraft alongside RAF spy planes raises questions about whether British intelligence assisted Israel’s targeting of the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza, writes Iain Overton.
Google’s Wiz Purchase Strengthens Ties to Israel
The Silicon Valley giant’s deal with the U.S.-Israeli cybersecurity company deepens its links with former members of Unit 8200, Israel’s elite signals intelligence group, Alan MacLeod reports.
Caitlin Johnstone: Normalizing Police Robot Murder
It makes sense that the U.S., where the police force is more heavily funded than almost any other nation’s entire military, is leading this charge.
The Idea Behind WikiLeaks: Julian Assange as a Physics Student
Niraj Lal says in this account of the origins of WikiLeaks that there is seldom any focus on the formidable concept of surveillance applied to structural power.
LEE CAMP: While Pandemic Destroys So Many Lives, The Surveillance State Celebrates
If they’re able to track “violators” who follow within a flying spit particle of someone else, then it stands to reason they could choose to track pretty much any other type of behavior.
Exclusive: They Spy with Their Little Eye
The Five Eyes, a part of what the NSA calls internally its “global network,” have their dirty fingerprints all over the latest spying scandal engulfing New Zealand, writes exiled Kiwi journalist and activist Suzie Dawson.
Britain’s Brave New World Just Got Braver
Britain’s new counter-terrorism initiative builds on Stasi-like methods to create a potentially Orwellian present for British citizens, as former MI-5 officer Annie Machon explains.
Mass Surveillance and the Memory Hole
The NSA’s recent destruction of evidence in contravention of a court order follows a long-established pattern of intelligence abuses, as Ted Snider explains.