A lot of data being released this morning on businesses involved in surveillance. From Privacy International: Privacy International and The Bureau have compiled a comprehensive database of companies that sell surveillance products. The database displays the types of product the company makes. Clicking the company name brings up a pop-up box with more information, including (where available) names of key…
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SPYFILES: Revelations of a Billion-Dollar Mass Surveillance Industry
Today Wikileaks releases nearly 1,100 internal documents, sales brochures and manuals for products sold by the manufacturers of systems for surveillance and the interception of telecommunications. These new leaks reveal a mass surveillance industry that’s now worth $5 billion a year, with technologies capable of spying on every telephone and Internet network on a national…
SAG Says Woman Who Sued IMDb for Revealing Age Has ‘Legitimate’ Fear of Being Blacklisted
Based on comments I’ve read around the web, this blog may be one of the few that thinks an actress who sued IMDB for revealing her true birthdate raised some legitimate concerns (other coverage on this blog here and here). But Eriq Gardner reports that the actress just got some probably welcome support from an executive and…
Did Carrier IQ Violate Wiretap Law in Millions of Cases?
The Carrier IQ kerfluffle that came to light after a researcher, Trevor Eckhart, revealed some really spooky snooping took a wicked turn. Andy Greenberg reports: A piece of keystroke-sniffing software called Carrier IQ has been embedded so deeply in millions of Nokia, Android, and RIM devices that it’s tough to spot and nearly impossible to…