You can not sacrifice privacy to get security, that’s like tearing down the house to build a fence. Privacy is how security looks like from within those walls, security is how privacy looks like from outside those walls, they are two sides of that same wall.

EAGLE is therefore able to aggregate, in an automatic fashion, email and physical addresses, telephone numbers, photos of suspects, but also to make automatic searches by date, hour, telephone number, email address, keyword, localization…

EAGLE “regroups all intercepted data in a single data center, which enables you to obtain a clear idea of your target’s different activites,” to geolocalize them, to graphically reconstitute their social networks, to analyze their semantics, to retranscribe and translate automatically telephone conversations…

Finally, a graphic interface visually represents “suspect” connections, who are identified by their names, surnames, aliases, mother tongue and email address.

A concern for civil libertarians is that deploying UAVs represents yet another expansion of police surveillance power, a power that some believe the New York Police Department (NYPD) has abused. The NYPD’s so-called “Ring of Steel” is a network of 1,800 video cameras currently in Lower and Midtown Manhattan that is expected to grow to 3,000.

In some places already, including the UK, police can demand that people turn over personal encryption keys or go to jail, an outrageously invasive violation of liberty. At some point, we can expect authorities will demand restrictions on conversations they can’t tap and understand in real time. This is an old debate, actually – one we’d thought settled in America in the 1990s, when the Clinton administration put forward a plan to require all mobile phones to include chips that would enable the government to spy on all calls. Security experts explained then that the idea was both impractical and dangerous to actual security, and the plan was shelved. It will come back in some form. The world’s governments are terrified of the idea of unbreakable communications.

a commenter offers their assistance in building a tool using the Face.API, which could help identify people in photos posted on Facebook, Flickr and Twitter. There is even talk of using the Facebook Graph API and the Twitter API in conjunction with the Face.com one to help better identify the criminals.

The process was so tedious that even veteran intelligence officials have marveled at the al-Qaida chief’s ability to maintain it for so long, the news service said. Bin Laden would type the messages on a computer that had no connection to the outside world and then instruct a trusted courier to drive to a cafe so they could be emailed. The courier would then save messages addressed to bin Laden to the same drive and bring it back so his boss could read them offline.

The text revealed Washington’s push to influence Swedish wiretapping laws so communication passing through the Scandinavian country can be intercepted. Now Sweden is bugged and wiretapped – at the behest of the US. The Swedish intelligence service, the FRA, has the power to monitor and intercept all internet traffic in the country.

The leaflet ask recipients to redistribute it by email and photocopy, but not to use social media such as Facebook and Twitter, which are being monitored by the security forces.

Olemme niin pelottavia? Mikä pelottaa ja ketä?

President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans…”We are not talking about a national ID card,” Locke said at the Stanford event. “We are not talking about a government-controlled system. What we are talking about is enhancing online security…

Under the new rules, to be introduced next month, all online writers - and this appears to include forums and even short messaging - will need a licence, valid for up to three years. The Saudi government says the move is simply designed to protect society

Hallituksille epäsuotavan käytöksen filtteröintiä EU:ssa - INDECT is a proposed intelligent observation system being researched by sevaral European universities since 2009 and funded by the European Union. The project aims to automatically detect criminal threats and behaviour through the processing of large volumes of CCTV camera streams and data mining of information retrieved from the public internet (internet forums, social networks, P2P file sharing networks) using various artificial intelligence and intelligence gathering network techniques.

The secret cables, seen by The Daily Telegraph, disclose how Swedish officials wanted discussions about anti-terrorism operations kept from public scrutiny.