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The Electronic Frontier Foundation's dedicated resource hub on mass surveillance covers legal, policy, and technical dimensions of government and corporate surveillance programs. It serves as a reference point for civil liberties advocacy, legal challenges, and public education about surveillance threats to privacy and free expression. The page aggregates EFF's ongoing work including litigation, legislative efforts, and technical research.
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- •Documents government mass surveillance programs and their legal/constitutional implications for civil liberties
- •Tracks EFF litigation and advocacy efforts challenging bulk data collection by intelligence agencies
- •Highlights connections between surveillance infrastructure and threats to free speech and political dissent
- •Provides resources on technical means of surveillance and tools for digital self-defense
- •Contextualizes surveillance as a systemic risk to democratic accountability and human rights
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EFFecting Change: Can't Stop the Signal on April 16
Surveillance Technologies
Surveillance Technologies
For years, there’s been ample evidence that authoritarian governments around the world are relying on technology produced by American, Canadian, and European companies to facilitate human rights abuses. From software that enables the filtering and blocking of online content to tools that help governments spy on their citizens, many such companies are actively serving autocratic governments as "repression’s little helper."
The reach of these technologies is astonishingly broad: governments can listen in on cell phone calls , use voice recognition to scan mobile networks, read emails and text messages, censor web pages, track a citizen’s every movement using GPS, and can even change email contents while en route to a recipient. Some tools are installed using the same type of malicious malware and spyware used by online criminals to steal credit card and banking information. They can secretly turn on webcams built into personal laptops and microphones in cell phones not being used. And all of this information is filtered and organized on such a massive scale that it can be used to spy on every person in an entire country.
This is a phenomenon that spans the globe and implicates dozens of corporations. Over the past year, and partly in response to the uprisings that have swept the Arab world, concerns about these exports have been amplified in media reports and by digital rights organizations, sparking a debate as to the appropriate course of action.
For example, Narus, a Boeing subsidiary, was revealed to have sold to Egypt sophisticated equipment used for surveillance. California’s BlueCoat Systems, Inc was found to have equipment being used in Syria.
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