04/03/2016 by Intellectual Property Watch
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, today issued a statement urged United States law enforcement authorities to exercise caution in their legal fight against Apple computer company, saying it could have “extremely damaging implications for the human rights of many millions of people, including their physical and financial security.”
A decision against Apple “is potentially a gift to authoritarian regimes, as well as to criminal hackers,” he said.
The Intercept 19 Febr, 2015: "AMERICAN AND BRITISH spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications across the globe, according to top-secret documents provided to The Intercept by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden."
Talmon Marco discusses steps by upstart free calls and messaging application to monetise service and why privacy matters . By Juliette Garside
The Guardian Friday 30 August 2013
Time will tell whether revelations by the Guardian and other media about the extent of Skype's cooperation with intelligence agencies will harm its business. But Marco believes individuals should care.
"Personally, I would be concerned being on a service knowing that everybody can listen to my conversations," he says. "People should be concerned about their privacy."
Isa Saharkhiz, a distinguished Iranian journalist and a key political reformer behind the 1999 Tehran Spring of press freedom, was arrested on June 20, 2009 in the small village of Tirkadeh in northern Iran where he had been hiding. The intelligence agent
Reportage i Die Zeit, bygger på data från Deutsche Telekom via gröna politikern Malte Spitz mobiltelefon under 6 månader år 2009. "... the Chaos Computer Club has rechristened the powerful mini-computers we carry around with us as "tracking devices" revealing where we’ve been and what we’ve been doing."
The English monarchy could have stopped the Founding Fathers in their tracks if they only possessed “metadata” regarding which colonist talked to whom.
via Euractiv 20.1.14 - massmedia not registrd as print media or broadcatsers but provide "information product" to the public must register wirth the state as "information agencies - blocking of websites authorised - licensing of internet providers - all telcos obliged to buy and install equipment to intercept communications (previously state bought the equipment)
The document shows for the first time that under the Obama administration the communication records of millions of US citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk – regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing. The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (Fisa) granted the order to the FBI on April 25, giving the government unlimited authority to obtain the data for a specified three-month period ending on July 19. Under the terms of the blanket order, the numbers of both parties on a call are handed over, as is location data, call duration, unique identifiers, and the time and duration of all calls. The contents of the conversation itself are not covered.
DN 2013-06-06 Säkerhetsmyndigheten NSA har fått tillstånd av den hemliga domstolen FISA att dagligen övervaka trafiken via bredbands- och teleföretaget Verizon, skriver brittiska The Guardian. Tidningen uppger att den har kommit över en kopia av beslutet.
Max Ehrenfreund, Washington Post 5 Dec 2013, on CO-TRAVELER The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the location of cellphones around the world. Ashkan Soltani, a Washington Post contributor and an independent privacy and security researcher, sat down with The Post's Alice Rhee to explain.
Laurie Penny The Guardian, Friday 3 January 2014 "The worst thing about the porn filter, though, is not that it accidentally blocks a lot of useful information but that it blocks information at all. With minimal argument, a Conservative-led government has given private firms permission to decide what websites we may and may not access. This sets a precedent for state censorship on an enormous scale – all outsourced to the private sector, of course, so that the coalition does not have to hold up its hands to direct responsibility for shutting down freedom of speech." - BT's opt-in filtering system , covers "sites with information about illegal manipulation of electronic devices [and] distribution of software"
Mikael Holmström i Svenska Dagbladet 9.7. De underrättelser som Sverige samlar in om det allt starkare Ryssland blir hårdvaluta i den byteshandel som sker med andra västländer."