Tag: surveillance
Max Blumenthal Reveals Surveillance Program in Yemen Run by Cambridge Analytica Parent Company SCL
Journalist Max Blumenthal published documents showing how Cambridge Analytica’s parent company SCL Group ran a secret counter-insurgency operation in Yemen on behalf of a US-based…
Israeli Private Intelligence Companies Turn Civilians into Enemies
Shir Hever talks about Psy-Group and other Israeli private intelligence companies and the role which they play in undermining democracy when intelligence gathering is privatized…
Israeli Authorities Step Up anti-BDS Policies: Political Test to Enter Israel
Israel border authorities have detained US-Palestinian student for her alleged Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activism, denying her entry into Israel, despite having a visa….
Is Orwell’s Big Brother Here? Bezos & Amazon Team up With Defense, CIA & ICE
Silicon Valley giants like Amazon & Palantir team up with ICE to hunt down immigrants, pick out the innocent as potential criminals, and build the…
Israeli Companies Sell Spy Tech They Perfected for Occupying Palestine
We speak to Antony Loewenstein, author of an article on “Exporting the Technology of Occupation.” He shows the growing connection between Israeli offensive cyber companies…
A Worldwide Web of Digital Colonialism: The Internet into the Present (Pt 1/2)
Watch full series https://therealnews.com/series/digital-colonialism-humanitys-struggle-for-digital-freedom Big Tech is reinventing colonialism in the digital era says Michael Kwet in discussing centralized control of the Internet at the…
Re-Decentralizing the Internet: The Fight to Unlock a Future of Digital Freedom (Pt 2/2)
Watch full series https://therealnews.com/series/digital-colonialism-humanitys-struggle-for-digital-freedom It is within the means of the international community to redesign the worldwide digital ecosystem to ensure critical functions performed in…
Facial Recognition Technology Ban for Police Is Important, but Not Enough
San Francisco, the ‘Silicon Valley’ city where facial recognition technology has been developed, is one of the first cities to recognize the risk to city…
COINTELPRO 2.0: Fighting Government Surveillance of Black and Muslim Organizations
The Black Identity Extremist Abolition Coalition (BIEAC) convenes its first conference to collaborate on efforts to fight FBI surveillance and targeting of Black and Muslim…
Facebook’s Libra Currency Monetizes Identity and Threatens Privacy
Bill Black discusses Feacebook’s new proposed crypto-currency, called “Libra.” Facebook could use this technology to standardize identity and create a world of ultimate surveillance, and…
Orwellian Surveillance of Tohono O’odham Nation – A Test Case for Entire US Border?
Will Parrish tells the story of how Israeli surveillance techniques originally developed to control Palestinians are now being used on Indigenous land near the border…
Patriot Act Renewal Sneaks Through Congress With Dem Support
The stopgap funding bill, which postpones a government shutdown, also includes a barely noticed 3-month renewal of the Patriot Act’s warrantless data collection. Subscribe to…
Facebook Sues Israeli Cyber Security Co. NSO Over WhatsApp Surveillance
Shir Hever discusses the strategy of the Israeli offensive cyber company NSO, its roots in the notorious Israeli “8200” military intelligence unit, and how it…
Did a Privately Funded Spy Plane Catch Cops Lying?
The plane operator discovered footage that shows Baltimore police could have lied about the shooting of a local man, but police brass didn’t want to…
