I recently spoke with Barton Gellman, former Washington Post reporter and author of “Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State.” The book comes seven years after Gellman was one of three reporters whom Snowden entrusted with a trove of NSA documents about the inner working of dozens of top secret U.S. surveillance operations....
Category: Surveillance
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Israel Nearly Doubled Exports of Surveillance Systems in 2018
Israel is a world leader in surveillance technology, with veterans of the Mossad and the military’s Unit 8200, a cyberwar office, launching start-ups that provide intelligence services to private clients. Israel’s Defense Ministry increased its exports in 2019 of civilian and refugee monitoring technology, a report published by the ministry Monday said. The figures show...
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The Five Eyes Block the Huawei Challenge
[Inside the Five Eyes: a series: Part 1 |Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 is below]. Once unknown, the Five Eyes is now coming into public view as supra-national surveillance service. The Five Eyes track terrorists and smugglers. They coordinate drone strikes and disaster response. They have the ability to...
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India’s RAW Roped in to Coronavirus Tracing
As India locks down in the face of the global pandemic, the country’s intelligence service, the Research & Analysis Wing, is being recruited into tracing possibly infected people. India’s tracing campaign is far more aggressive than anything mounted in the United States. Out of 1,350 persons known to have attended a religious gather, 1,282 had...
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Why Did the CIA Wiretap My Father, Journalist Paul Scott?
This true story comes from the Annapolis (Md.) Gazette. My father Paul Scott was a nationally syndicated reporter whose column appeared in 300 newspapers from the 1950s-1970s. He and his partner Robert Allen were illegally wiretapped by the CIA for three months in 1963. The CIA acknowledged this activity in the publication of its Family...