by Jonathan Cook October 18, 2009 NAZARETH, ISRAEL // Civil rights groups in Israel have expressed outrage at the announcement last week that a special undercover unit of the police has been infiltrating and collecting intelligence on Israel’s Arab minority by disguising its officers as Arabs. It is the first public admission that the Israeli police are using [...]

Number of names on terrorist watch list at 400,000, agency says by Walter Pincus November 1, 2009 Newly released FBI data offer evidence of the broad scope and complexity of the nation’s terrorist watch list, documenting a daily flood of names nominated for inclusion to the controversial list. During a 12-month period ended in March this year, for example, [...]

by Tolu Olorunda October 27, 2009 There is something immeasurably insidious about a government that spies on its citizens. And if there is one universal truth, it is that no country has a monopoly on such activities. Whenever a ruling class, from whatever region, begins to feel threatened by the unforeseen, emerging independence of the underclass, one [...]

Redes sociales, bajo el interés de la CIA por Lisandro Pardo 19 de octubre, 2009 Puede que no sea de una forma estrictamente directa, pero recientemente la Agencia Central de Inteligencia estadounidense ha dado un interesante paso a la hora de monitorear actividad en diferentes blogs y servicios sociales disponibles en la red. El brazo de inversiones de [...]

by Noah Shachtman October 19, 2009 America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon. In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s [...]

Some agencies deem the database system so valuable they have been making deals with offenders in exchange for a DNA sample by Patrick Kollman October 22, 2009 Since its discovery a quarter century ago, the DNA fingerprint has been hailed as a pivotal tool in solving crimes and exonerating those wrongly convicted. But as it celebrates its 25th anniversary, [...]

by James Bamford November 5, 2009 The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency by Matthew M. Aid Bloomsbury, 423 pp., $30.00 On a remote edge of Utah’s dry and arid high desert, where temperatures often zoom past 100 degrees, hard-hatted construction workers with top-secret clearances are preparing to build what may become America’s equivalent of Jorge [...]

La policía británica crea una base de datos de manifestantes por Carlos Martínez 26 de octubre, 2009 El pasado 25 de octubre, el diario inglés “The Guardian” (artículo abajo en inglés), informaba de que la policía de ese país había creado una base de datos en la almacenaban los datos personales de miles de activistas que asisten [...]

ver también Resistir nuestra seguridad: los ojos de vidrio Diferentes grupos defensores de los derechos civiles han mostrado su preocupación ante el Proyecto Indect, que pretende crear una red automatizada de vigilancia en toda Europa por Baquía 23 de septiembre, 2009 Según un reportaje publicado por el diario británico Telegraph, la Unión Europea ha invertido 11 millones de euros [...]

by David Kravets October 8, 2009 A deeply divided Senate committee on Thursday forwarded legislation to the full Senate that reauthorizes three expiring provisions of the Patriot Act hastily adopted in the wake of the 2001 terror attacks. The measures greatly expanded the government’s ability to spy on Americans in the name of national security. Thursday’s 11-8 vote by [...]