mark kennedy’s thatcher tears
Margaret Thatcher was clearly choked up and her eyes welled with tears as she left Downing Street for the last time. Some political observers remarked that this was evidence of her having common humanity after all. But to only cry for your own loss of power, status and income after despoiling communities and instigating brutal […]
C4ISR spending to remain stable over next five years, led by sensors and UAVs, says Frost & Sullivan
U.S. military spending for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) will remain stable through 2016, with substantial growth limited to applications involving counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism operations, say analysts at market researcher Frost & Sullivan in Mountain View, Calif. The focus of C4ISR spending over the next five years will be on intelligence […]
Europol wants to host EU cyber crime centre
By Valentina Pop The EU’s joint policy body, Europol, is angling to host a new European cyber crime centre, with the European Commission due next year to decide where to put its new defence against the threat. With Europol already dealing with forensics and investigation of online crimes, placing an EU cyber crime centre on […]
Undercover policeman admits spying on Danish activists
Rob Evans and Paul Lewis Mark Kennedy says he infiltrated community centre, obtaining intelligence that helped police storm it and close it down The controversy over the undercover policeman Mark Kennedy has deepened after he admitted spying on and disrupting the work of activists in another European country. Kennedy has admitted that he infiltrated a […]
Energy Giant EDF has today been found guilty of spying on Greenpeace
At 14.00 hours French Judge Isabelle Prévost-Desprez pronounced a verdict of guilty in the trial of French state owned energy giant EDF, which was accused of industrial scale espionage against Greenpeace. She sentenced EDF executive Pierre-Paul François to 3 years imprisonment, with 30 months suspended and Pascal Durieux 3 years imprisonment, two years suspended and […]
Call for a NoBorders Convergence, London, 13 – 18 February 2012
London NoBorders, along with Goldsmiths students and other groups, are organising a week-long convergence to be held in London between 13 – 18 February 2012. The aim is to get together to share our knowledge and experiences in relation to people’s freedom of movement and the restrictions on it, and to share skills, network, strategise […]
A „JUNGLE“ IN SERBIA NEAR THE HUNGARIAN BORDER
Where there was a single state, Yugoslavia, in September there today which is a member of the European Union and the Schengen area, Slovenia, an acceding, Croatia, five others (Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, and what is officially called „Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia“ at the refusal of Greece that the sovereign state is called „Macedonia“), […]
Italian VAR wants out of Syrian surveillance deal
By Philip Willan The Italian company criticized for supplying the brutal Syrian regime with telecommunications surveillance equipment has frozen participation in the project and is seeking a way to extricate itself from the contract, Area SpA CEO Andrea Formenti said Wednesday. „At the moment we have no people down there and the project has made […]
American, French, German, Italian firms selling Syrian regime Internet use tracking systems – sign to stop them!
It wont be long before the Syrian regime, with the help of four Western companies, sets up perhaps the world’s most sophisticated online tracking and surveillance system. Its goal? To assist Syrian security forces in their door-to-door hunt for activists. These companies have been racing against the clock to complete this extensive network. Since March, […]
Activist spy cancels visit to documentary festival
Former undercover British police agent Mark Kennedy has cancelled his visit to Copenhagen to attend the CPH:DOX documentary film festival after protests from Danish and British climate activists. Kennedy, 41, was due to take part in a debate after the screening of ‘Undercover Cop’, a documentary about the seven years he spent infiltrating environmental activist […]
Vancouver Police Focuses on Intelligence-Led Policing for Proactive Crime Reduction
The Vancouver Police Department maintains peace and order in British Columbia’s largest city, which has over half a million residents and is a popular venue for large events. To support their focus on intelligence-led policing, they deployed ESRI’s enterprise geographic information system (GIS) technology that provides users across their organization with better access to mission-critical […]
The Climate Collective strongly opposes Mark Kennedy coming to Denmark
Mark Kennedy, the English undercover cop who was exposed last year, is coming to Denmark during the CPH DOX documentary film festival. He is invited to speak in connection to the screening of a documentary telling his story. The Climate Collective strongly opposes that Mark Kennedy gives a talk at the festival or for that […]
Call-Out for Solidarity with Egypt: Defend the Revolution
A letter from Cairo to the Occupy/Decolonize movements & other solidarity movements. After three decades of living under a dictatorship, Egyptians started a revolution demanding bread, freedom and social justice. After a nearly utopian occupation of Tahrir Square lasting eighteen days, we rid ourselves of Mubarak and began the second, harder, task of removing his […]
Israel, EU sign space cooperation accord
By NADAV SHEMER Cooperation in space, industry agreement will allow EU’s Galileo global-navigation satellite system to establish a satellite receiving station in Israel. Cooperation between Israel and the European Union is set to expand into space, after Industry, Trade and Labor Minister Shalom Simhon and European Commission Vice President Antonio Tajani signed an agreement Monday […]
Undercover Cop
Director: Brian Hill | UK 2011 | 75 min 12/11 | 16:40 | 75 DKK | Grand Teatret | Telephone: 33151611 | Tickets 13/11 | 10:00 | 75 DKK | Cinemateket | Telephone: 33743412 With ‚Undercover Cop‘, Brian Hill, one of Britain’s most innovative documentary filmmakers, once again covers one of those topics that are […]
How The CIA Uses Social Media to Track How People Feel
By Jared Keller In a nondescript building in Virginia, „vengeful librarians“ are tracking millions of tweets, blog posts, and Facebook updates from around the world How stable is China? What are people discussing and thinking in Pakistan? To answer these sorts of question, the U.S. government has turned to a rich source: social media. The […]
Syria Crackdown Gets Italy Firm’s Aid With U.S.-Europe Spy Gear
By Ben Elgin and Vernon Silver As Syria’s crackdown on protests has claimed more than 3,000 lives since March, Italian technicians in telecom offices from Damascus to Aleppo have been busy equipping President Bashar al-Assad’s regime with the power to intercept, scan and catalog virtually every e-mail that flows through the country. Employees of Area […]
SYRIA: US technology used to censor the Internet in Syria
by Pratap Chatterjee Technology from an American company is being used by the Syrian government to censor the Internet and monitor dissidents, according to activists. The equipment produced by a major SiliconValley company, Blue Coat, allows corporations and governments to manage data traffic. But it can also be used to monitor users and block access […]
The Coast Guard Wants UAVs
Tasked with patrolling millions of square miles of water over vast ocean distances, the U.S. Coast Guard is looking to augment its surveillance forces with unmanned air vehicles (UAVs). These craft would serve to alert cutters to what lies over the distant ocean horizon. Rear Adm. Charles W. Ray, USCG, the commander of the 14th […]
Can Computers Predict Crimes Before They Happen?
Dashiell Bennett One of the most intriguing (though highly flawed) shows of the new TV season is „Person of Interest,“ the CBS crime show built on the back of our new surveillance state. The premise: A mysterious genius invents a massive computer for the government that analyzes unfathomable amounts of electronic surveillance data (phone calls, […]