New Apps Fight Government Surveillance As disturbing stories about government surveillance come to light in the media, new applications and services are being developed to shield peoples privacy, both online and off. The goal is to create ways for people to use the Internet and to communicate online without surveillance. Its sad that this is the proverbial kick in the butt that needs to bring awareness to this concept, said Harlo Holmes, who works for the Guardian Project, a group that is building several anti-surveillance and privacy applications. Dan Phiffer works on a project called Occupy.here that gives people access to a private messaging forum by creating small, localized pockets of Internet access. People who are nearby and whose laptops or mobile devices detect the network are directed to a discussion board where they can interact. Inspired by the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011, the idea was to allow activists and organizers to interact in a way that would be hard for police officers to track. His project is naturally resistant to Internet surveillance, but its original purpose was not for countersurveillance, he said. What I am trying to do is build alternative online spaces for supporting activists and those who might be sympathetic to their cause. Not a bad idea at all, but they will soon subvert it. bits.blogs.nytimes/2013/10/19/seeking-online-refuge-from-spying-eyes/?partner=rss&emc=rss
Posted on: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 04:19:17 +0000
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