New Zealand has been the most forthcoming of the Five Eyes so far - although
that is not saying much. The Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) -
the New Zealand equivalent of the GCHQ - is holding responsive information, but
it has refused to provide it because the GCSB claims doing so would "likely
prejudice the security or defence ip camera of New Zealand or the international
relations" of its government, and that, essentially, other governments would no
longer trust New Zealand to hold their ip camera confidential information. Nonetheless,
the GCSB and the Office of the Prime Minister have confimed that New Zealand
has accepted and is subject ot the terms and conditions of the UKUSA agreement,
making New Zealand a "collaborating commonwealth country" in the Five Eyes
alliance. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade claims it holds no
responsive information, and therefore refused our request.
Below is a table outlining responses from all Five Eyes governments. We will
continue to push for more transparency and accountability for the Five Eyes
alliance, and will update this summary if and when we learn more.After
suffering years of persistent harassment, violence, and surveillance at the
hands of his oppressive government, Tadesse Kersmo had enough. Tired of living
under constant 16 channel dvr monitoring, Tadesse and his wife escaped Ethiopia, where they
had been politically active for years, and were granted asylum in the United
Kingdom in 2009 surveillance camera.
It was only a few years later that they discovered that this escape was an
illusion, and that they had been followed from Ethiopia to England. He may have
left his country, but Tadesse was still a target.
He wasn’t followed physically, however - the surveillance was much more
clandestine. Tadesse appears to have been tracked through his computer via a
Trojan that is part of a commercial intrusion kit called FinFisher.
Examinations undertaken by Privacy International in collaboration with a
research fellow of the Citizen Lab suggest that Tadesse’s computer, which was
the main way he remained in touch with his friends and family back home, and
continued to advocate for democracy surveillance system back in Ethiopia, was totally taken over.
With his chats and Skype calls logged, his contacts accessed, and his video and surveillance system
microphone remotely switched on, it was not only Tadesse that was being
threatened, but also every single person who was part of the movement.
What is frightening is that even if one manages to flee from oppression, when
it comes to this type of technology, there are no borders.
Post je objavljen 20.08.2014. u 09:10 sati.