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Latest cache shows how monitoring Internet cafes plays key role in spy operations.

CJEU rejects French citizen's complaint, rules consumers want an OS on their PCs.

Britain has gone “further than any other Western democracy” in its expansion of surveillance powers and its ability to collect bulk data without justifiable reason, a British MP has said.

Brit overseers not interested, so groups ask ECHR instead

Turkey coup plotters used WhatsApp to communicate, tweeted the Independent newspaper in Britain after an abortive coup attempt in Turkey. Coup plotters 'used WhatsApp' to communicate https://t.co/ZDwmAesmDW — The Independent (@Independent) July 16, 2016 Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan used social media more effectively than the rebels. First he used FaceTime to reach a television reporter …

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hates Twitter, but he survived a coup attempt in part by using social networks to urge his supporters to take to the streets.

News outlets forbidden from using "conjecture and imagination to distort the facts."

Law enforcement continue to crack down on the criminal use of so-called PGP BlackBerrys.

A small but increasing band of African governments is blocking social media during elections. Clare Spencer asks why and how this is done and how people get around it.

On 8 June 2015 Privacy International filed a legal challenge in the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, about whether the acquisition, use, retention, disclosure, storage and deletion of Bulk Personal Datasets is in accordance with the law and necessary and proportionate. Bulk Personal Datasets were first avowed on 12 March 2015 in the Intelligence and Security Committee report.

Agencies privately concede that ‘intrusive’ practices can invade privacy and that data is gathered on people ‘unlikely to be of interest’

#privacy #gchq #mi5 #mi6 #data protection

David Davis says data retention laws turn ‘entire nation into suspects’, but UK lawyers say they are vital to terrorism cases

#data protection #surveillance #uk security and counter-terrorism #telecommunications industry #human rights

Outcome of hearing at European court of justice likely to influence final shape of government’s investigatory powers bill

#surveillance #uk civil liberties #law #court of justice of the european union #privacy

With almost two million requests for telecommunication data and more than two thousand requests for Internet data concerning Polish citizens in 2015, it is clear that the access to metadata in Poland by the country’s secret services is still out of control. Compared to 2014, the Polish Panoptykon Foundation found that the number of requests …

#surveillance

Security researchers and civil liberties advocates on Friday condemned draft legislation leaked from the U.S. Senate that would let judges order technology companies to assist law enforcement agencies in breaking into encrypted data.

New law aimed at beefing up surveillance to prevent crime and terrorism has hit a stumbling block after the President refused to sign it -raising concerns about people's right to privacy.

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