Big Brother is now law: Leahy cartoon on metadata retention
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Month: March 2015
Media Watch shows how journalists’ metadata puts sources at risk
If you are a journalist, you must take steps now to protect your sources. At a minimum, you should always be using:
a virtual private network service (VPN) app at all times on your mobile smart phone
a secure messaging app like Wickr (the app the Australian Communications Minister uses to circumvent his own government’s metadata retention laws).
Andrew Wilkie MP condemns new metadata retention laws
Very few parliamentarians bothered to protect the public interest with every other member giving in to unrealistic claims of protecting our security from terrorists, peadophiles and other major criminals. In truth, these dangerous criminals already know how to avoid these laws by using a suite of tools such as secure messaging apps, Tor, I2P and VPNs. This leaves these laws to target dumb criminals and every other Australian is now subject to mass surveillance.
Encrypt and secure your SMS text messages to keep them private
Wickr encrypts your messagings to protect your privacy from your government, foreign governments and corporations and so not even Wickr can read your messages
Wickr has both iPhone (iOS) and Android apps so you can send secure private messages between iPhones and Android phones
Wickr is popular after the Australian Federal Communications Minister revealed he uses Wickr to circumvent his own government’s metadata retention laws!
Online security expert Bruce Schneier explains the danger of metadata
While Bruce is pessimistic about your ability to hide your metadata, you can make it harder for government to match metadata to you personally. For example, Bruce mentions that when you use Yahoo search (or Google search) it is unavoidable that metadata is created and stored about your search terms. However, if you use a virtual private network (VPN) then the government will have no idea that it was you that made that internet search and the government will only be able to identify that your VPN provider made that search.
Australian senator condemns new mass surveillance laws
Senator Leyonhjelm points out that it is inevitable, as has already happened overseas, that government agencies will abuse these mass surveillance powers to investigate suspected trivial offences against ordinary Australians. The Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Act 2015 is now law as both the Liberal National Coalition and Labor collaborated to end online privacy for everybody in Australia.
How to choose a VPN provider that will protect your privacy
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