Sentences with phrase «spying on citizens»

In the times of oppressive governments spying on their citizens, it has huge implications for one's privacy and eventually (a loss of) freedom.

The writer and I are aware of the irony in writing pseudonymously about a government spying on its citizens.

Facial recognition technology carries the danger that its use will evolve into a widespread tool for spying on citizens as they move about in public places.

We've referred to the matter of governments spying on citizens a number of times here on Slaw, particularly in relation to the feebleness of the «it's only metadata» excuse.

Is the government now spying on its citizens like the old East German Stasi?

Some of these missions are pretty funny too, one rewarding you if you die 100 + times, and one provided by a girl dressed up as a cat, claiming that the cats in the city are spying on the citizens.

The second storyline takes us through the initial recruitment and subsequent rise through the CIA and NSA, as we see how Snowden continually uncovered more about how the government was spying on citizens.

The recent scandals of governments spying on its citizens are making «transparency» a scary thing so do n`t let anyone meddle in your private affairs!

With governments increasingly spying on their citizens, the time for the mainstreaming of these tools is just about here.

The over one million emails, searchable on the whistle - blowing website WikiLeaks, give a rare look into how countries are using technology to spy on their citizens.

Orwell «s 1984 envisioned a future in which Big Brother would use the mass media to turn society into a vast prison, where television would both spy on each citizen «s every move and also supply an unending barrage of false propaganda to brainwash the hapless public.

Chakrabati and Brooke say investigatory powers bill gives the state «a blank cheque» to spy on citizens and threatens investigative journalism

Depicting a weeping angel surrounded by code, he refers to a hacking tool developed by CIA to spy on citizens.

It is far easier to simply spy on citizens than to create the sort of social structure or foreign policy that would reduce the long - term risk of terrorism and crime.

Privacy International said in a statement: «Yesterday's leak of materials reportedly shows how Hacking Team assisted some of the world's most repressive regimes — from Bahrain to Uzbekistan, Ethiopia to Sudan — to spy on their citizens.

Some in Uganda though have argued that it possibly forms part of a more sinister plan by the government to spy on citizens.

Furthermore, the nations of Turkey and Syria deploy Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) devices developed by Canada - based Sandvine / Procera Networks to place spyware when users are downloading legitimate anti-virus programs, and thus indirectly spy on their citizens.

Read next: French court backs plan to spy on citizens and hack computers in wake of «Charlie Hebdo» attacks

Not exact matches

• The NSA spies on millions of phone calls, emails, and text messages of ordinary German citizens.

But after four Japanese citizens were detained in China on suspicion of spying, the boat captain was released by Japanese authorities to try to cool things down.

Snowden's supporters have argued that he rightly exposed unsavory details of how the government spied on its own citizens and the leaders of other world powers, including its allies.

Under a program called PRISM, Snowden claims the U.S. government has been collecting data from these companies — such as user photos, emails and other documents — to spy on foreign targets, and potentially American citizens as well.

In July, the company denied a German television report that it had cooperated with American intelligence agencies to spy on German citizens using its network.

«The American people have been reminded this year of reasons to be concerned for their privacy,» says the group's attorney, Patrick Murck, referencing the recent disclosures about unwarranted government spying on innocent citizens.

A judge from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court has to give the FBI permission if it wants to spy on a US citizen it thinks might be working with a foreign government.

One of this campaign's leading voices, Rep. Mark Meadows (R - NC), tweeted that the FBI spied on American citizen Carter Page based on faulty and politically motivated evidence.

Sure lets talk about «binder's of women» anything but the real issues like the human rights violations when we drop bombs on cities with unchecked drone power, spying on our own citizens, still waging war on our own population calling it a war on drugs and turning us into a gulag state.

Does that mean that anyone who supports the United States of America supports spying on it's own citizens?

Spying on every innocent citizen, just in case they might do something wrong, did not stop them.

However, during the 2013 Snowden revelations it was conclusively demonstrated that GCHQ did in fact collaborate with the NSA in illegally circumventing US laws and spying on US citizens and public figures as an agent of the US government as summarized by multiple Guardian articles.

British citizens would become their own immigration enforcement officials, spying on one another, checking one another's papers, and reporting one another to the authorities.

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Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who revealed the NSA's program for spying on US citizens, tweeted that Yahoo users should close their accounts in the wake of the revelations.

The biopic from director Oliver Stone tells the story of the former CIA employee Edward Snowen (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) who became a whistleblower when he leaked classified information about the NSA to the media that revealed the agency was spying on unknowing citizens of the United States.

Snowden fled the United States in 2013 after leaking classified information that proved the U.S government had been spying on its own citizen.

With production on Star Wars: Episode VIII in full swing, a batch of spy photos from the Dubrovnik set of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens follow - up have arrived online courtesy of DuList (via StarWarsPost), which show a selection of citizens, and what looks to be some kind of giant alien space horse!

In this land which is oddly reminiscent of the nation that George Orwell laid out in his classic novel 1984, the citizens of this LEGO land are spied on and tortured if they step out of bounds.

But just as authoritarian governments can use Twitter to spy on their rebellious citizens, so too professors can turn online tools against their students.

While it starts out as a great story about secret agents and special ops teams, about double crosses and not knowing who to trust, it quickly evolved into a laundry list of ways that different government agencies with obscure acronyms had the technological means and the legal ability to spy on every single citizen.

It wouldn't have been so bad if there was more to do in virtual Chicago other than spy on the city's largely forgettable citizens and drive around increasingly fuzzy - looking streets.

The final part of the exhibition presents a show within the show curated by a prominent contemporary industrial designer, featuring spy tools used by the GDR and the Soviet Union on their citizens: technological instruments capable of breaking down the barriers of the private sphere, selected for the prophetic beauty of their rational design as related to contemporary computers and smartphones.

Whether photographing secret military bases from fifty miles away, or imaging spy satellites in the heavens from earth, Paglen's photographs embody the limits of visibility, imposed both by the realities of physical distance and by informational obfuscation, that keep us as citizens from seeing and knowing these subjects on our own.

Denial is a River, along with Nancy Rubins» MoMA and Airplane Parts..., evoke the state of socio - political conflicts that have engulfed global affairs and play on the anxieties that have emerged over the last five years: the American government's carte blanche subscription to corruption; the pacification of its citizens with conspicuous consumption; militarism; domestic spying; terrorism.

We citizens must take a stand to stop this wasteful spending on wars and weapons (including spy satellites) and increase diplomacy.

Now, Mr. Obama tells us, unlike what we've heard from Edward Snowden, that the US govt never spies on ordinary citizens....

One thing I don't like about Trump, however, is his commitment to continued spying on US citizens at large.

While recognizing that intelligence gathering is a legitimate function in the national security interest, Congress passed the law to limit the government's power to break into homes and spy on U.S. citizens.»

Edward Snowden may have exposed countless secrets about the way governments are conducting cyber espionage on their own citizens and each other, but even he couldn't have been aware that as the National Security Agency / Prism scandal broke this past summer, Aaron Shull was quietly figuring out where the legal boundaries of online spying should lie.

It would also provide authority to revoke Canadian citizenship from dual citizens and deny it to permanent residents who are convicted of terrorism, high treason, treason or spying offences, depending on the sentence.

During the past decade, the government has spent 500 million pounds ($ 1 billion) on spy cameras and now has one for every 14 citizens, according to a September report prepared for Information Commissioner Richard Thomas by the Surveillance Studies Network, a panel of U.K. academics.