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Journalists and online activists, did GCHQ or NSA spy on you?
27 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Journalism, Internet news


By Reporters Without Borders
A recent historic ruling by an independent British tribunal that handles complaints about surveillance has made it possible for individuals to ask the British signals intelligence agency GCHQ if it spied on them. Reporters Without Borders is inviting journalists, bloggers and online activists to participate in a campaign that will help them to discover whether they were the victims of illegal spying.

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Tags: surveillance, GCHQ, NSA, spying
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Digital Rights orgs call on world leaders to uphold human rights in wake of Hebdo
11 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Human Rights, Internet news, International


by Raegan MacDonald, EDRi-member
Over 30 digital and civil liberties organisations from around the world have endorsed a joint statement calling on the world’s governments not to expand surveillance measures in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks. In addition to European Digital Rights (EDRi), signatories include Article19, digitalcourage, IT-pol, Vrijschrift, La Quadrature du Net, Panoptykon, Initiative für Netzfreiheit, FITUG e.V., Alternative Informatics Association, ORG, EFF, Effi, APTi, and Access.

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Tags: Charlie Hebdo, surveillance
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French Patriot Act: Do we really need more surveillance?
28 Jan 2015; posted by the editor - International


On 21 January, only two weeks after the attacks in Paris, the French government announced a big bundle of new security measures, a “general mobilisation against terrorism”. But does the country need more surveillance?  

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Tags: anti-terrorism, France, surveillance
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