Sentences with phrase «mass surveillance»

The film exposes the reality of mass surveillance and its consequences for personal privacy and public policy.

Whether you like it or not, we are all under mass surveillance.

Another concern is the use of «secret laws, secret courts and secret interpretations of such laws» to justify mass surveillance.

It's fascinating to watch in a way — similar to watching a car crash — as people are slowly brought into the world of government - sponsored mass surveillance.

The Irish High Court's referral to the ECJ only specifically asks the European court to clarify whether standard contractual clauses are valid or not, given the existence of U.S. mass surveillance programs such as PRISM, but the ECJ may also choose to decide on the validity of Privacy Shield.

It has been used as the legal basis for mass surveillance programs disclosed by Edward Snowden in 2014, including PRISM.

• After giving journalist Glenn Greenwald a 72 - hour warning to reveal the nation redacted from his previous report on mass surveillance of an entire country, WikLeaks reveals the country in question is Afghanistan.

Since Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA has been conducting mass surveillance of not only US citizens but of citizens all around the world, there has been a substantial increase in the adoption of end - to - end encryption.

Furthermore, the CCLA brought up the issue that faces are constantly changing, and facial biometrics open a Pandora's box for mass surveillance by states of individuals, with a corresponding chilling effect on many civil liberties.

However few other mainstream UK news outlets covered the story despite the revelations about mass surveillance by a British intelligence agency, the GCHQ.

Privacy Shield replaces the prior Safe Harbor arrangement, which stood for fifteen years before being invalidated by Europe's top court after a legal challenge that was largely focused on US government mass surveillance practices as a breach of EU privacy rights.

And he continues to advocate for targeted suspension of data flows if a company falls under US mass surveillance laws — i.e. rather than a blanket strike down of underlying mechanisms.

As we all know, thanks to whistleblowers like Snowden, and subsequent legal challenges from Liberty and others, our government has been practising — and investing time and vast resources — in mass surveillance methods for years.

They are moving from mass surveillance to what intelligence agencies are hoping will be their new panacea: hacking.

«Astro Noise» is a series of installations that explore topics including mass surveillance, Guantánamo Bay, the war on terror and torture.»

The CIA tools described by WikiLeaks do not involve mass surveillance, and all of the targets were government entities or had legitimate national security value for other reasons, Symantec researcher Eric Chien said ahead of Monday's publication.

The other problem that he argues is exacerbated by mass surveillance ad - targeting online business models is filter bubbles — aka the strategy of platforms using people's own biases as a tactic to keep them clicking by reductively feeding them more of the same stuff.

Tel Aviv - headquartered artificial intelligence startup Cortica has partnered with India's Best Group to help investigating agencies in their fight against crime and terrorism through mass surveillance solutions, Digital Trends reported.

Greenwald has written a series of stories revealing mass surveillance programs by the U.S. National Security Agency.

Indeed, whether US law adequately protects against mass surveillance by the intelligence agencies was a major issue in the case, as the oral hearing before the Court indicates.

/ mass surveillance programmes (not just «delaying ID cards for 5 years») and repeal of all draconian laws (control orders, 28 days etc) attacking civil liberties 2.

A statutory pillar of the NSA and FBI's mass surveillance powers, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, is scheduled to expire at the end of the year.

Britain has supported or participated in the Obama administration's intervention in Libya, expansion of American mass surveillance, support for the Saudi regime's invasion of Yemen, and use of drone strikes to execute those even suspected of terrorist involvement.

The tendency, nearly without exception, of governments to employ mass surveillance in an effort to quell dissent and force compliance should give us pause.

By bringing together human rights defenders and journalists from four different continents, it serves to highlight the dangers mass surveillance pose to the vital work of countless organisations and to individuals who expose human rights abuses and defend those at risk.»

Politics surfaced, mostly at outlier venues, excepting at an ABMB artist talk, when photographer / geographer Trevor Paglen spoke to Jenny Holzer about a new work being shown that tracks surveillance using his images of mass surveillance infrastructure, such as designated junction points of fibre - optic cables.

Arbitrary mass surveillance and detention are Orwellian political tools; China should abandon use of them and release all those held in political education centers immediately.

Signal and the like are «pushing intelligence agencies from a world of undetectable mass surveillance to a world where they have to use expensive, high - risk, extremely targeted attacks.»

The letter does something very dangerous: when it states things like «all humans have the right to remain unobserved and unmolested», and demands the right for people to determine «what extent their personal data may be legally collected, stored and processed», it confuses and elides mass surveillance (indiscriminate, disproportionate, bad) with just surveillance overall.

Its manifesto calls for shorter copyright laws and an end to «warrantless mass surveillance».

Beyond all that, the government has yet to address the elephant in the room — is mass surveillance actually the route down which our country should keep hurtling?

«Unhindered by the Liberal Democrats, the Conservatives will now seek to widen mass surveillance and data retention,» founder Aral Balkan wrote in a farewell blog.

Published last week, the ISC's report: Privacy and Security, a modern and transparent legal framework, found that UK laws governing intelligence agencies and mass surveillance need to be updated, to make them more transparent and comprehensible.

By my read, #SnoopersCharter legitimizes mass surveillance.

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are legal and increasingly popular for individuals wanting to circumvent censorship, avoid mass surveillance or access geographically limited services like Netflix and BBC iPlayer.

It's the pseudonym Edward Snowden used when he first approached, over the Internet, documentary filmmaker and muckraking journalist Laura Poitras, hoping to find someone trustworthy and with a pulpit who could share with the world what he'd discovered about the outrageous mass surveillance the NSA is engaged in that makes Big Brother look like an amateur.

His highly conceptual and thoroughly researched practice has examined mass surveillance, particularly in the wake of Edward Snowden's NSA leaks, and the «black world» — highly secret and guarded military test sites.

Her reporting on NSA mass surveillance based on Snowden's disclosures won the George Polk Award for national security journalism, and shared in the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

Meanwhile Zoom Pavilion by Rafael Lozano - Hemmer and Krzysztof Wodiczko gave visitors a disorientating encounter with mass surveillance, with 12 robotic cameras capturing the audience, and rendering the footage on the gallery walls in real time.

American artist Trevor Paglen, whose work tackles mass surveillance and data collection, has been chosen for his project The Octopus — an installation that includes pictures of restricted military and government areas and the flight paths of drones.

To sum up, the ECJ theoretically legitimated mass surveillance, but, as to its concrete implementation, it provided for such strict requirements that, quite paradoxically, they are difficult to be applied in practice.

Maintaining a realistic perspective, the Court considered mass surveillance tolerable at least in theory, because it is a necessary and useful tool for the prevention of terrorism.

Canada is a participant in these information sharing activities as a member of the Five Eyes Intelligence alliance, and communications from people in Canada are caught up in this global mass surveillance.

The UK Government's vast, cross-border mass surveillance regime — which lets it access millions of people's communications every day — has made those protections meaningless.

The documents leaked by Snowden were examples of America's intelligence agencies and other countries equivalent unlawful mass surveillance, including political, industrial and counter-terrorism espionage that the public were unaware of.

Many issues will still need to be addressed by national legislators (eg to design safeguards that pass the Digital Rights Ireland test) and national courts (eg to evaluate whether there are no less restrictive alternatives than a general data retention obligation and whether the risk of mass surveillance does not outweigh the benefits offered by a general data retention obligation).