Adam Rawnsley reports: The U.S. military can see you breathing on the other side of that wall. It can even see your heartbeat racing while you crouch behind the door. But if you think running farther away or hiding in a crowd will make you invisible to the Defense Department’s sensors, you might be in…
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The Surveillance Catalog: Where governments get their tools
From the WSJ: Documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal open a rare window into a new global market for the off-the-shelf surveillance technology that has arisen in the decade since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The techniques described in the trove of 200-plus marketing documents include hacking tools that enable governments to…
‘Unenforceable’ right to be forgotten should not be included in new EU data laws, ICO says
Giving individuals the right to force organisations to delete the personal information they store them about would be misleading, unenforceable and have “implications” for free speech, the UK’s data protection watchdog said. “The framework should strengthen individual rights to object to and block processing, and to have their data deleted, and reverse the burden of…
Hewlett-Packard Computers Underpin Syria Surveillance Project
Vernon Silver reports: Hewlett-Packard Co. equipment worth more than $500,000 has been installed in computer rooms in Syria, underpinning a surveillance system being built to monitor e-mails and Internet use, according to documents from the deal and a person familiar with the installation. The gear made by Palo Alto, California-based Hewlett- Packard would run a…