The chief of the UK’s foreign intelligence service revealed in an interview that MI6 views climate change as the “foremost international foreign policy item for this country and for the planet.” Moore signaled that his agency would focus on China because it is “certainly the largest emitter” of carbon, describing …
Read More »Tesla will ‘get shut down’ if used for spying in any country, Musk says after reports of restrictions on vehicles in China
“If a commercial company did engage in spying, the negative effects to that company would be extremely bad,” Musk said at the China Development Forum, which he attended via video link. “For example, if Tesla used the cars to spy in China – or anywhere, any country – we will …
Read More »Bild’s ‘spying’ allegations against RT German are perfect fit for ‘NATO narrative,’ Afshin Rattansi says as RT vows legal action
A story published in Bild on Tuesday alleged that RT’s German-language wing dispatched two of its reporters to “spy” on Russian corruption campaigner Alexey Navalny as he convalesced at a hospital in Berlin from an ostensible poisoning. But Rattansi, host of RT’s ‘Going Underground,’ argued the report failed to uncover …
Read More »Google promises to stop spying on users, saying 3rd-party for-profit tracking model to be phased out
Google is serious about moving away from privacy-invading micro-targeted ads, Director of Product Management David Temkin insisted in a Wednesday blog post, acknowledging that users are sick of being spied on and feel it puts them at risk. “We’re making explicit that once third-party cookies are phased out, we will …
Read More »No one’s above the law? FBI lawyer who altered evidence to enable spying on Trump gets PROBATION instead of jail
Clinesmith worked at the FBI General Counsel’s Office (GCO) and was assigned to Crossfire Hurricane, the probe of Trump’s alleged ties with Russia during the 2016 election. In that capacity, he altered an email from the CIA that described Page as a source for the spy agency, to say he …
Read More »Assange WON’T be extradited to US on spying charges in shock decision at London’s Old Bailey
Assange, 49, is charged with 18 counts of conspiring to hack US government computers and the publication of confidential military records, including a video of a 2007 Apache helicopter attack in Baghdad in which a dozen people, including two Reuters journalists, were killed. In her ruling Baraitser said that freedom …
Read More »Move over Russia! Chinese Caribbean phone spying story gives hint of what’s to come under Biden administration
China allegedly used its second-largest telecoms operator – China Unicom – to send “tens of thousands” of so-called signaling messages to Americans in the Caribbean. These messages are usually used by operators to track phones and assess roaming charges, but Miller, a telecoms security consultant, told the Guardian on Tuesday …
Read More »US labor agency accuses Google of SPYING on its own employees who tried to unionize
In a complaint filed against Google and its parent company Alphabet, the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) accused the Silicon Valley giant of “interfering with, restraining and coercing employees” who attempted to improve their workplace conditions. According to the NLRB, Google illegally spied on employees who tried to unionize, …
Read More »US spying program is violating rules on protecting citizen privacy rights, but carry on, FISA court tells FBI
“There still appear to be widespread violations of the querying standard by the FBI,” chief FISA judge James Boasberg said in a December ruling that was declassified and made public with heavy redactions on Friday. Those querying rules are meant to protect the privacy rights of American citizens and require …
Read More »Snowden did nothing wrong? Court rules NSA spying on Americans’ phones was illegal all along
The metadata “bulk collection” program violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Wednesday. The opinion delivered by Judge Marsha Berzon reportedly contained multiple references to Snowden and his role in disclosing the program to the public – for which …
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