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Rights Group Reports on Abuses of Surveillance and Censorship Technology
New York Times Last year, Mr. Marquis-Boire used computer servers to identify the use of an intelligence-oriented surveillance software program, called FinSpy, which was being used by Bahrain to track opposition activists. On a hunch last month, the researchers used … |
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German government's surveillance software unsettles a nation that prizes privacy
Quartz The document doesn't say which Gamma product the agency has bought, but it is likely FinSpy, which was previously tested in Germany in 2011. BKA, which denied using the program, plans to surveil Skype and telephone conversations, e-mails, and chats of … Report claims that German police are using commercial spyware German feds will have own spyware by 2014, FinFisher for now German Federal Criminal Police acquires interim government trojan from Gamma |
In a Maryland laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Army scientists, engineers and program developers are working on the Army’s next-generation surveillance aircraft, the Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System (EMARSS). This NextGen flying spy [PDF] is a “C-12 based, direct support, manned airborne intelligence collection, processing, and targeting support system.
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“NSA Whistleblower: Everyone in US under virtual surveillance, all info stored, no matter the post,” reported RT after interviewing William Binney. RT said this is being done under the “Terrorist Surveillance Program” which is probably better known as NSA warrantless wiretapping. But Binney also named and blamed the FBI this time:
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