Al Haramain v. Bush - This case alleges targeting of the leaders of an Islamic charity and their lawyers by the admitted, targeted warrantless wiretapping by the NSA. It is based on a document that was accidentally disclosed to the plaintiffs by the government that the plaintiffs allege demonstrates that they were subjected to warrantless wiretapping (the exact facts are held under tight seal).
Applied Video Solutions, Inc. - Provides integrated video surveillance systems for security and business management applications. CCTV camera systems designed and implemented by Applied Video Solutions promote safety, protect valuable assets and improve business operations by providing vital information about real events.
Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) - The use of video cameras to transmit signal to a specific, limited set of monitors. It differs from broadcast television in that the signal is not openly transmitted, though it may employ point to point wireless links. CCTV is often used for surveillance in areas which need monitoring, such as banks, casinos, airports, military installations and convenience stores.
Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (CALEA) - In October 1994, Congress took action to protect public safety and national security by enacting CALEA. The law further defines the existing statutory obligation of telecommunications carriers to assist Law Enforcement in executing electronic surveillance pursuant to court order or other lawful authorization.
Covert Surveillance Code of Practice - This UK code applies to every authorisation of covert surveillance or of entry on or interference with property or with wireless telegraphy carried out under section 5 of the Intelligence Services Act 1994, Part III of the Police Act 1997 or Part II of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.
Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) -
Deep packet inspection (DPI) is the act of any packet network equipment which is not an endpoint of a communication using non-header content (typically the actual payload) for some purpose. This is performed as the packet passes an inspection point, searching for protocol non-compliance, viruses, spam, intrusions or predefined criteria to decide what actions to take on the packet, including collecting statistical information. There are multiple headers for IP packets, network equipment only needs to use the first of these (the IP header) for normal operation, but use of the second header (TCP, UDP etc) is normally considered to be shallow packet inspection (usually called Stateful Packet Inspection) despite this definition. Deep Packet Inspection (and filtering) enables advanced network management, user service, and security functions as well as internet data mining, eavesdropping, and censorship. Although DPI technology has been used for Internet management for many years, some advocates of net neutrality fear that the technology can be used anticompetitively or to reduce the openness of the Internet. Also see:
Government Electronic Surveillance Agencies - Here are some organizations that take information security and/or communications security very seriously, some of which also expend effort in breaking the security of others.
Government Requests Transparency Report - Google has created Government Requests to show the number of government inquiries for information about users and requests to remove content from its services.
Also see Google's interactive Traffic Graphs which provide information about traffic to Google services around the world. Each graph shows historic traffic patterns for a geographic region and service. By illustrating outages, this tool visualizes disruptions in the free flow of information, whether it's a government blocking information or a cable being cut. We hope this raw data will help facilitate studies about service outages and disruptions.
International Spy Shop - State of the art surveillance and counter surveillance equipment.
Murray Associates -
An independent consulting firm specializing in eavesdropping detection and counterespionage services for business and government.
OpenNet Initiative - A joint project whose goal is to monitor and report on internet filtering and surveillance practices by nations. The project employs a number of technical means, as well as an international network of investigators, to determine the extent and nature of government-run internet filtering programs.
Search EFF's FOIA Documents - EFF's Freedom of Information Act project has gathered thousands of pages of material. These shed light on controversial government surveillance programs, lobbying practices, and intellectual property initiatives. You can use the EFF FOIA Search Engine below to search and examine the documents' contents.
Security Systems Shop - High end professional equipment for police, security forces and companies. Spy supplies and tools for phone tapping, room bugs, wireless microphone, video and hidden cameras. Covert and counter surveillance equipment for private or company use.
Spy Chest - Spy equipment, GPS tracking systems, telephone recorders spy software spy cameras and tracking systems security camera telephone recorder surveillance equipment and hidden cameras, long range parabolic microphones.
Spy Company - Surveillance equipment, pinhole video cameras, privacy theft personal protection, bug detectors, lock picks, counter espionage measures.
Spy Files - WikiLeaks publishes The Spy Files, thousands of pages and other materials exposing the global mass surveillance industry.
Also see comprehensive map of internet and phone surveillance companies.
Spybase.com - Surveillance cameras and spy equipment, video recorders, home security devices, night vision, wireless devices, telephone recorders, digital audio recorders, pinhole cameras, hidden cameras, security cameras and more.
Surveillance and Society - Fully peer-reviewed transdisciplinary online surveillance studies journal.
Surveillance Self-Defense Project -
This Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) project exists to answer two main questions: What can the government legally do to spy on your computer data and communications? And what can you legally do to protect yourself against such spying?
Urban Eye - A comparative research project analysing the employment of CCTV in public accessible space in Europe which shall assess its social effects and political impacts in order to finally outline strategies for its regulation.
What Location Tracking Looks Like - Your cell phone company knows everywhere you go, twenty-four hours a day, every day. How concrete is this fact for you? It's very concrete for Malte Spitz, a German politician and privacy advocate. He used German privacy law — which, like the law of many European countries, gives individuals a right to see what private companies know about them — to force his cell phone carrier to reveal what it knew about him. The result? 35,831 different facts about his cell phone use over the course of six months.
Whole Body Imaging Technology - The Transportation Security Administration is expanding the use of "backscatter X-ray" systems for passenger screening. The $100,000 refrigerator-size machines use "backscatter" technology, which bounces low-radiation X-rays off of a passenger to produce photo-quality images of travelers as if they were undressed. Computer processing partially obscures the image that is available to operators. TSA states that the agency will delete the raw images, but there is no law or regulation that prevents the agency from saving the original, detailed images. Until there is such a prohibition, EPIC believes funding for the program should be suspended.
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