@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 >From: "Craig A. Johnson" <•••@••.•••> To: "Multiple recipients of list •••@••.•••" Subject: cr> "Big Brother Incorporate" We all know of the great work being done by Marc Rottenberg, Dave Banisar, and the other folks at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). Now comes a top-notch international privacy expert, Simon Davies, (collaborating with EPIC) with some dire warnings about the "international surveillance trade" and how it is fostering "mass surveillance" by secret police and military authorities in developing countries. (I am posting an excerpt below. The complete piece will be posted to our Web site this weekend.) Also look out for Simon Davies' upcoming piece in the March issue of WIRED magazine on the damaging effect of U.S. politics on the Net. -caj ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 LONDON, ENGLAND, 1995 DEC 11 (NB) -- Privacy International, a not- for-profit personal privacy organization, has issued a free 150-page report in which it claims that there exists a massive international surveillance trade funded by the arms industry and led by the UK. According to Simon Davies, the director of Privacy International, "Big Brother Incorporate" aims to show the world exactly what goes in the world trade as regards surveillance. The report is billed as investigating what Davies calls "the global trade in repressive surveillance technologies," and is available for free download at http://www.privacy.org/pi/reports/big_bro/ . Davies told Newsbytes that the report shows how technology companies in Europe and North America provide the surveillance infrastructure for the secret police and military authorities in such countries as China, Indonesia, Nigeria, Angola, Rwanda, and Guatemala The report's primary concern is the flow of sophisticated computer- based technology from developed countries to developing countries -- and particularly to non-democratic regimes. The report claims to demonstrate how these companies have strengthened the lethal authority of the world's most dangerous regimes. <...> "Many countries in transition to democracy also rely heavily on surveillance to satisfy the demands of police and military. The technology described in the report makes possible mass surveillance of populations. In the past, regimes relied on targeted surveillance," says the report. "Much of this technology is used to track the activities of dissidents, human rights activists, journalists, student leaders, minorities, trade union leaders, and political opponents. It is also useful for monitoring larger sectors of the population. With this technology, the financial transactions, communications activity, and geographic movements of millions of people can be captured, analyzed, and transmitted cheaply and efficiently," it adds. <...> (Steve Gold/19951208/Press & Reader Contact: David Banisar, Privacy International, tel 202-544-9240, fax 202-547-5482, Internet e-mail •••@••.•••) ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ For subscription info, archived postings/documents, and other useful material, visit the CPSR Cyber-Rights Web Page at: http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/ You are encouraged to forward and cross-post list traffic, pursuant to any contained copyright & redistribution restrictions. ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~--~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Posted by Richard K. Moore (•••@••.•••) Wexford, Ireland •••@••.••• | Cyberlib=http://www.internet-eireann.ie/cyberlib Materials may be reposted in their entirety for non-commercial use. ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~--~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~
Share: