Should the Trump administration sanction Hikvision, a Chinese facial recognition firm deeply involved in the suppression of the Uighur people in Xinjang province? “Taking this step would be a tangible signal to both U.S. and foreign companies that the U.S. government is looking carefully at what is happening in Xinjiang and is willing to take...
Category: Surveillance
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Amnesty International Denounces Pegasus Spyware
From Amnesty International Research has documented the use of NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware to target a wide swathe of civil society, including at least 24 human rights defenders, journalists and parliamentarians in Mexico; an Amnesty International employee; Saudi activists Omar Abdulaziz, Yahya Assiri, Ghanem Al-Masarir; award-winning Emirati human rights campaigner Ahmed Mansoor; and allegedly, murdered Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi. The complaint describes just...
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Mossad and the Rise of the VC-Spy Alliance
The growth of intelligence agencies in the 21st century has been powered by the development of new technologies, created by start-ups, which are powered by intelligence agencies. This unvirtuous circle of money and espionage is a new and daunting challenge for civil liberties and human rights groups. The U.S intelligence community has a venture capital...
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NSA ‘Unmasking’ More Americans Picked Up By Mass Surveillance
From Statista.com, a revealing glimpse of the growing number of Americans picked up by U.S. national security agencies work. A report released on Tuesday found that there has been a huge rise in the number of identities of U.S. persons revealed by the National Security Agency (NSA). While the process is known as “unmasking”, the term “U.S....
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Echoing Bob Woodward, Republicans Seek an Investigation of Their Own
As House Democrats ramp up their investigations of President Trump in the wake of the revelations of the Mueller Report, congressional Republicans are seeking do to the same, with a boost from an unexpected source, legendary investigative reporter Bob Woodward. Their targets: FBI agent Peter Strzok, former FBI attorney Lisa Page and former British intelligence...