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- political dissidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism And that's what it is used for. Australian gov. use
by akerro 11y ago
- political dissidents
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
And that's what it is used for. Australian gov. used their abilities to mark people who say against coal energy as anti-government, all they did was support renewable sources of energy.
https://overland.org.au/2014/07/surveillance-of-activists-is-about-to-get-much-much-worse/ https://overland.org.au/2014/07/surveillance-of-activists-is...
and Canada:
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/feb/14/canada-environmental-activism-threat http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/feb/14/canada-en...
- minority groups
FBI was spying on black-rights activists, since ever.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/fbis-suicide-letter-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-and-dangers-unchecked-surveillance https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/fbis-suicide-letter-dr...
- whistleblowers
No example needed.
- journalists whose behaviour changes
https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/duncan-campbell/gchq-and-me https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/duncan-campbell/gch...
Campbell in '70s discovered ECHELON, NSA admitted he was their personal target since then.
- personal vulnerabilities (affairs, mental health issues etc)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEXINT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEXINT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVEINT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVEINT
- stevetrewick 11y ago>Australian gov. used their abilities to mark people who say against coal energy as anti-government Even the partisan sources you've linked don't support that particular assertion AFAICS. It appears that gov.au placed a group of activists with the potential intent to disrupt energy supplies under surveillance. 'Green' activists suffer from a bad case of noble cause corruption which prevents them from understanding that things they think are wonderful and necessary - like disrupting power grids - are well within the scope of what other people would consider to be terrorism. There is also no suggestion that any ML or mass surveillance was used in targeting them. Targeted, intrusive surveillance was authorised against them.
- akerro 11y agoI don't know any good sources about it. I heard about it somewhere on reddit probably and it stuck in my head, there are more different kind of sources if you need more: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jan/21/fracking-activism-protest-terrorist-oil-corporate-spies http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/ja... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-07/brown-slams-spying-on-environmental-activists/3762308 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-07/brown-slams-spying-on-... http://www.smh.com.au/environment/afp-spies-targeting-green-activists-20120106-1pogq.html http://www.smh.com.au/environment/afp-spies-targeting-green-...