Circumventing Surveillance On The Open Internet
As the resurgence of the EARN IT Act shows, we’re all in need of tools for communicating privately online.With the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act, two U.S. senators have reintroduced a surveillance bill that could have major impacts on privacy and free speech, turning the offering of encryption services into legal risk territory for service providers. While the censorship of free speech is already flourishing on public platforms such as Twitter, the EARN IT act would enforce the transmission of all communication between users in plain text....
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The United Kingdom recently passed legislation providing the government with sweeping new surveillance powers on Internet activity, unprecedented in any Western democracy. The Investigatory Powers Bill will authorize the UK government’s mass surveillance program of online activity. This will mandate a record be kept for one year of every citizen’s Web activity, including phone metadata. All Internet service providers will be required to keep Internet connection records for their customers, and will be paid to do so by the government. Then, law enforcement will be able to request this....
The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the hottest trends in the technology sector right now. Connecting billions of devices to the Internet will serve as a great platform for future innovation, but it also opens up the door to spying by government officials. If the US director of national intelligence James Clapper has a say in the matter, the Internet....
As the UK parliament is on the precipice of passing a new surveillance bill into law, one British engineer is trying to halt its progress through an anonymizing system that runs on top of the Tor anonymity network. OnionDSL: The Tor-based ISP. British lawmakers are on the verge of passing a new law that expands the government’s ability to snoop on its citizens, and one network engineer believes he has a way to counter it. The bill, which is championed by current Prime Minister Theresa May, generally aims to implement mass government surveillance throughout the UK. Also called “Snoopers’....
The Onion Router Project is one of the best inventions today's netizens can ask for. Better known by its acronym Tor, it offers conditional but free anonymizing solution for millions of internet users across the world. Tor relays internet traffic over the volunteer relay network to offer better privacy and security to internet users. The main objective of Tor is to help users overcome surveillance and monitoring of internet connections and activities by governments and other entities. Tor allows users to create proxy connections that helps overcome internet censorship. The open source....
What is “privacy”? Is there a right balance between privacy and mass surveillance? Does it matter, and if so, why? Are you a “bad” person if you want privacy? The story of Anne Frank illustrates the parallels between modern global surveillance and the Nazi. A Panopticon is a prison architectural model designed for the maximum efficiency of mass surveillance. Developed by 18th century social theorist Jeremy Bentham, a Panopticon consists of a cylindrical structure with an "inspection house" at its center. From there, a guard can easily watch all inmates, whose cages are always in open view....