[…] Party, (2) the institutional agenda of the intelligence and security agencies, and (3) the narrative power and moral fervor of the media with (4) the tech companies’ surveillance architecture. The claim that Russia hacked the 2016 vote allowed federal agencies to implement the new public-private censorship machinery under the pretext Clint Watts and Andrew […]
[…] and Brown governments packed with lawyers with little apparent concern for either the legality of their actions on their far-reaching consequences for human rights and well-being. From surveillance and the national security state to the ‘war on terror’ and control orders and rendition, Ewing’s solid, incisive work reaches out to lawyers and journalists, but […]
[…] American politicians? A couple of of interesting essays about the CIA recently. Covert Action has editor Jeremy Kuzmarov’s account of the joint CIA and New Zealand SIS surveillance operations in the 1980s against the New Zealanders who opposed the expansion of US bases in their country.28 The Intercept describes how the CIA used the […]
[…] move with RFID (Nashville (US): Thomas Nelson, 2005) 15 warehouses. In an article written after the book was published, the authors report tell us that ‘Cincinnati video surveillance company CityWatcher.com now requires employees to use VeriChip human implantable microchips to enter a secure data centre’;16 and the US government has begun producing passports with […]
[…] Party, (2) the institutional agenda of the intelligence and security agencies, and (3) the narrative power and moral fervor of the media with (4) the tech companies’ surveillance architecture. The claim that Russia hacked the 2016 vote allowed federal agencies to implement the new public-private censorship machinery under the pretext Clint Watts and Andrew […]
[…] The Rise and Fall of New Labour Andrew Rawnsley London: Penguin/Viking, 2010, £25.00 Ghost Dancers David John Douglass Hastings: Christie Books, 2010, £12.95 The Silent State: Secrets, Surveillance and the Myth of British Democracy Heather Brooke London: William Heinemann, 2010, £12.99 Broonland: The Last Days of Gordon Brown Christopher Harvie London/New York: Verso, 2010, […]
[…] American politicians? A couple of of interesting essays about the CIA recently. Covert Action has editor Jeremy Kuzmarov’s account of the joint CIA and New Zealand SIS surveillance operations in the 1980s against the New Zealanders who opposed the expansion of US bases in their country.28 The Intercept describes how the CIA used the […]
[PDF file]: […] . help, posed absolutely no threat to anybody (except, possibly, himself). He was, however, encouraged in his fantasies regarding Jihad by the undercover officers involved in his surveillance. One of the more ridiculous aspects was that, ‘Rahman said he couldn’t fund the attack because he was “broke and homeless” – but he handed over […]
[PDF file]: […] as a ‘defensive operation’ monitoring the phones of Northern Ireland journalists for at least thirteen years. PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher admitted that the force had used surveillance tactics against 320 journalists and 500 lawyers. Four years before No Stone Unturned was aired, PSNI officers sought permission to monitor Birney and McCaffrey, repeatedly referring […]
[…] Party, (2) the institutional agenda of the intelligence and security agencies, and (3) the narrative power and moral fervor of the media with (4) the tech companies’ surveillance architecture. Clint Watts and Andrew Weisburd, ‘How Russia Dominates Your Twitter Feed to Promote Lies (And, Trump, Too)’, August 2016, at or . 7 4 The […]
