[Reader-list] 11th Feb Plans & Links on Surveillance

[A. Mani]

(VERY LONG EMAIL)

https://thedaywefightback.org/

Possible plans:

1. Mass migration/joining diaspora
2. Free Software promotion.
3. Teach about fighting surveillance and ensuring transparency to
people of different professions and others..

etc
Things to note: large number of people have developed a defeatist
attitude (as usual) towards the problem
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Related:

http://rt.com/news/scandal-spying-richard-stallman-759/

https://www.aclu.org/time-rein-surveillance-state-0

http://www.mediaroots.org/the-death-of-irony-or-university-of-penns-secret-meetings-on-secret-surveillance-law/
http://www.scribd.com/doc/188413842/Public-flier-for-Penn-s-On-the-Very-Idea-of-Secret-Laws
  : CERL Conference
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NSA Surveillance is about Control & Leverage, not Security


http://www.juancole.com/2014/01/surveillance-leverage-security.html

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NSA and Corporate Partners:

http://newsclick.in/international/nsa-and-its-corporate-partners

Surveillance and Indian Constitution:

http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/surveillance-and-the-indian-consitution-part-1

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[The West's gift to the rest... along with turning the world into a
shopping mall interrupted by landfills...]


 Spy Agencies Work On Psychologically Profiling Everyone

Posted on January 31, 2014
<http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/01/future-spying-techniques.html>
by WashingtonsBlog
<http://www.washingtonsblog.com/author/washingtonsblog>


     Spies Want To Predict Everyone's Thoughts and Actions

Newly-released documents from Edward Snowden show that the NSA and
other spy agencies are tracking people's psychological and lifestyle
traits such as sexual preference, extroversion-versus-introversion,
and whether people are leaders or followers.  See this
<http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/27/nsa-gchq-smartphone-app-angry-birds-personal-data>
and this <http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/27/22469304-snowden-docs-reveal-british-spies-snooped-on-youtube-and-facebook>.

For example, the following are slides leaked by Snowden from Britain's
spy service regarding profiling people psychologically:

<http://www.washingtonsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Extrovert-Introvert.jpg>

<http://www.washingtonsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Spy-Graphic-Browser.jpg>IC
Off the Record reports <http://nsa.gov1.info/data/index.html> on
future spying techniques being developed by the U.S. Office of the
Director of National Intelligence's Intelligence Advanced Research
Projects Activity:

   In 2006, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity
   (IARPA) was created to invest in high-risk, high-payoff classified
   programs uniquely designed to provide research and technical
   capabilities for the Intelligence Community. IARPA-funded
   researchers are currently studying novel ways of processing and
   analyzing the explosive growth of domestic data. ***

     * The Knowledge Discovery and Dissemination (KDD) program
       <http://www.iarpa.gov/Programs/ia/KDD/kdd.html> will develop
       advanced analytic algorithms that can effectively *draw
       inferences across multiple databases to allow the Intelligence
       Community to create virtual fusion centers* enabling analysts to
       produce actionable intelligence.

     * The Socio-cultural Content in Language (SCIL) Program
       <http://www.iarpa.gov/Programs/ia/SCIL/scil.html> will develop
       novel algorithms, techniques and technologies to uncover the
       *social actions and characteristics of members of a group (ie;
       within discussion forums, online comment sections, social media,
       etc.) by examining the language used in relation to acceptable
       social and cultural norms*.

     * The Reynard Program
       <http://www.iarpa.gov/Programs/ia/Reynard/reynard.html> starts
       from the premise that "real world" characteristics are reflected
       in "virtual world" behavior. The program seeks to i*dentify
       behavioral indicators in online virtual worlds and "massively
       multiplayer online games" that are related to the real world
       characteristics of the users. Attributes of interest include
       gender, age, economic status, educational level, occupation,
       ideology or "world view"*, and physical geographic location.

Indeed, the NSA  is working on building a "pre-crime" computer system
that uses artificial intelligence and massive amounts of data
<http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/01/clues-future-snowden-leaks-found-past.html>
to try to predict how one thinks and what everyone is likely to do.

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  CIA confirms agency obliged to follow federal surveillance law

. Law concerns financial information and government hacking
. Motive for question at Senate committee not known

 * <http://www.facebook.com/dialog/feed?app_id=180444840287&link=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/07/cia-confirms-follow-federal-surveillance-law&display=popup&redirect_uri=http://gu-social-share-experiments.theguardian.com&show_error=false&ref=desktop>

 *
   Spencer Ackerman
   <http://www.theguardian.com/profile/spencerackerman> in Washington
 *

 * theguardian.com <http://www.theguardian.com/>, Friday 7 February
   2014 15.09 GMT
 * Jump to comments (131)
   <http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/07/cia-confirms-follow-federal-surveillance-law#start-of-comments>

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Cyberliberterianism is no cure for socio-economic problems:

http://jacobinmag.com/2013/12/cyberlibertarians-digital-deletion-of-the-left

http://betabeat.com/2013/09/smell-ya-later-nerds/
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http://ahprojects.com/projects
http://www.openfirmware.info/Welcome_to_OpenBIOS
https://help.riseup.net/en

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