Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has warned, "You're all screwed," when it comes to smartphone and gadget monitoring and surveillance.
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Tuesday, 7 May 2013
Wikileaks reveals mass surveillance of mobile devices
Software that tracks people on social media created by defence firm
A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people's movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social networking websites.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/10/software-tracks-social-media-defence
What Your Cell Phone Could Be Telling the Government
Smart phones do many things these days: surf the Internet, send e-mail, take photos and video (and — oh, yes — send and receive calls). But one thing they can do that phone companies don't advertise is spy on you. As long as you don't leave home without your phone, that handy gadget keeps a record of everywhere you go — a record the government can then get from your telephone company.
Every email and website to be stored
It will allow security services and the police to spy on the activities of every Briton who uses a phone or the internet.
Moves to make every communications provider store details for at least a year will be unveiled later this year sparking fresh fears over a return of the surveillance state.
The plans were shelved by the Labour Government last December but the Home Office is now ready to revive them.
It comes despite the Coalition Agreement promised to "end the storage of internet and email records without good reason".
Any suggestion of a central "super database" has been ruled out but the plans are expected to involve service providers storing all users details for a set period of time.
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8075563/Every-email-and-website-to-be-stored.html
Moves to make every communications provider store details for at least a year will be unveiled later this year sparking fresh fears over a return of the surveillance state.
The plans were shelved by the Labour Government last December but the Home Office is now ready to revive them.
It comes despite the Coalition Agreement promised to "end the storage of internet and email records without good reason".
Any suggestion of a central "super database" has been ruled out but the plans are expected to involve service providers storing all users details for a set period of time.
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8075563/Every-email-and-website-to-be-stored.html
Smartphones To Collect Biometric Data
Perhaps even more startling than the government’s little-known Rapid DNA project, the U.S. Department of Defense begun a new project that will turn smartphones into devices that can collect biometric data.
Your Apps Are Watching You
Few devices know more personal details about people than the smartphones in their pockets: phone numbers, current location, often the owner's real name—even a unique ID number that can never be changed or turned off.
IT'S OFFICIAL: The Smartphone Market Is Now Bigger Than The PC Market
Well, that was fast.
Only three years after the iPhone launched, the smartphone market is already bigger than the PC market.
According to IDC, 101 million smartphones were sold in Q4, versus 92 million PCs.
Smartphone shipments, meanwhile, grew 87% year over year, while PCs only grew 3%.
Android vaulted past all contenders, including Apple and Nokia, to become the No. 1 smartphone platform in the quarter (Nokia still sold the most phones, with 28% of the market).
Apple's share doubled to 16% year over year.
All of this is good news for smartphone makers and supply chains and horrible news for PC makers and supply chains.
The PC market would have grown faster if iPads are counted as PCs. But that's bad news for the traditional PC markers, too, because iPads have already grabbed more than 7% of the global PC market.
Sam Ladner and the mobile work life
At Social Media Breakfast Ottawa yesterday, Sam Ladnerpresented her research on the mobile work life, which seeks to add to our current understanding of the smartphone and its impact on work/life balance, practically, culturally and symbolically.
Continue reading on this link: http://francis-moran.com/index.php/tag/panic-culture/
Body of Privacy Oversight Institution is a reality now
The Senate Judiciary Committee today approved president Obama’s nominee, David Medine, as chair of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. With this step, we are on the cusp of finally seeing this important oversight body brought into full existence.
Google’s Report on NSLs: What we still don’t know
Every year, the FBI issues tens of thousands of “national security letters”—or NSLs—demanding that internet service providers, telephone companies, credit card companies, and others hand over information about their customers if it is “relevant” to a counterterrorism or counter-intelligence investigation. That information could include the web sites we visit, the email addresses of our contacts, or even information linking us to our anonymous political speech online. This practice has been shrouded in secrecy, though, because the FBIgags recipients of NSLs—preventing companies from telling their customers that the government has asked for records about them.
http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-technology-and-liberty/googles-report-nsls-what-we-still-dont-know
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