#spy files

[gacougnol]

WikiLeaks: The Spy Files

[silkinsights]

WikiLeaks - SpyFiles 4

Last week we published the first interactive WikiLeaks database that puts all 500+ of the Spy Files documents into a data-driven format.

THIS week, we have updated it with WikiLeaks SpyFiles4. 

You can search through by company, country, date and more. It can also be embedded into any  blog as an iFrame. We encourage others to use it as an embed in your work or just as a research tool!

Data from wikileaks.silk.co

[ecstaticsec]

Fresh SpyFiles. Gone FinFishing.

[silkapp]

Transparency, Wikileaks, and Data Journalism

Anyone who has followed Silk knows we have a strong interest in government transparency, civil liberties and corporate responsibility. Yesterday we released the Wikileaks Spy Files Silk. This is the first and only searchable interactive database of the Spy Files.

Data from wikileaks.silk.co

The Spy Files are a trove of 569 leaked documents detailing the activities and practices of companies that sell mass surveillance and communication interception technologies. Wikileaks released three batches of the Spy Files. But you can search them all only in one place - on this Silk, made by Silk data journalist Alice Corona. For example, this query shows you all the technologies that were used to target Facebook users.

Alice found that three companies - Blue Coat, Cobham and Gamma - make up 20% of all the leaked documents. There are many more surprising observations made by Alice on the Wikileaks Silk. The information is well summarized, but you can easily spend an hour or more sifting through the findings and reading the documents (there are download links pointing back to Wikileaks.org included in every page on the Silk). Of course, you can explore and filter all information on the Wikileaks Silk yourself, so you can do your own fact-finding.

All of this brings me to another key point. Generating really interesting content is a big part of our strategy at Silk for several reasons. First, it’s how we show the world the possibilities of Silk and how we engage users. Second, we consistently hear back from heavy Silk users that they got ideas for their own Silks by looking at examples from our gallery. Lastly and perhaps most importantly, creating content is something we actually do for fun to play with and learn about our product.

Original works like the one Alice did take many hours of time. But Silk makes it trivial to convert any spreadsheet into an interactive site with easy to manipulate visualizations. And that allows any Silk user to become a data journalist themselves, even if they are analyzing data from a static table in Wikipedia (such as this Silk which took a table of deaths on Everest and converted it into useful findings about percentages of nationalities killed).

We will continue to pursue original data journalism and you should look for a lot more from Alice and the rest of the Silk team in the near future. And if you have a project in mind, drop us a line on Twitter. We would be happy to help build it.

[aringherosse]

Spy Files

Julian Assange sta diffondendo i dati sulle attività di "spionaggio" che molte aziende private, in Italia e nel Mondo, svolgono nei confronti dei cittadini, perlopiù, ignari. Certo che questo signore doveva saperla lunga già da qualche tempo.

[anarcho-queer]

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, speaks about Spy Files. 

Companies such as HP and Cisco Systems secretly monitor their customers activities. To see if you're being monitored check out WikiLeaks SpyFiles Map.

[existentialistmumbojumbo]

Mass interception of entire populations is not only a reality, it is a secret new industry spanning 25 countries

It sounds like something out of Hollywood, but as of today, mass interception systems, built by Western intelligence contractors, including for ’political opponents’ are a reality. Today WikiLeaks began releasing a database of hundreds of documents from as many as 160 intelligence contractors in the mass surveillance industry. Working with Bugged Planet and Privacy International, as well as media organizations form six countries – ARD in Germany, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism in the UK, The Hindu in India, L’Espresso in Italy, OWNI in France and the Washington Post in the U.S. Wikileaks is shining a light on this secret industry that has boomed since September 11, 2001 and is worth billions of dollars per year. WikiLeaks has released 287 documents today, but the Spy Files project is ongoing and further information will be released this week and into next year.

[decayingsun]

Mass interception of entire populations is not only a reality, it is a secret new industry spanning 25 countries

It sounds like something out of Hollywood, but as of today, mass interception systems, built by Western intelligence contractors, including for ’political opponents’ are a reality. Today WikiLeaks began releasing a database of hundreds of documents from as many as 160 intelligence contractors in the mass surveillance industry. Working with Bugged Planet and Privacy International, as well as media organizations form six countries – ARD in Germany, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism in the UK, The Hindu in India, L’Espresso in Italy, OWNI in France and the Washington Post in the U.S. Wikileaks is shining a light on this secret industry that has boomed since September 11, 2001 and is worth billions of dollars per year. WikiLeaks has released 287 documents today, but the Spy Files project is ongoing and further information will be released this week and into next year.