The Anonymous Self Defence Handbook – well actually it’s a video – created by the Anonymous Defense Front (ADF) is aimed to help people protect themselves from the police on Nov 5th and every other day.
Actually, they need help translating to Kurdish, Arabic, Spanish, French, Cantonese, Greek and any other language that might need it** if you can help please let them know.
It’s been referred to as the new “surveillance tax” by Steve Dalby. Dalby, the chief regulatory officer of internet provider, iiNet, has called on the government to explain their new plans of a phone and internet tax in Australia with transparency. Dalby argues that the costs passed on to consumers won’t be negligible, as Communications Minister, Malcolm Turnbull has suggested. The estimated rise is likely to be $5 to $10 extra a month.
The impending scheme which is slated for legislation in the coming months will enforce telcos in Australia to retain metadata about their customers for two years. The metadata will include IP addresses of sender and recipient, billing information, time, date and location, to allow law enforcement agencies, such as ASIO, to access it without a warrant.[1]
The submission of the pending legislation notates that “there is a strong likelihood that opponents will refer to the regime as an internet tax that will be passed on to consumers. This is not an internet tax.” [2]And though the submission is “silent on cost,” The Communications Alliance, representing telecommunications companies, estimates a $500 – $700 million bill to telcos for the implementation of the legislation.[3] One which Dalby of iiNet states they alone face $100 million in costs. “iiNet does not agree that it should accept the role proposed by those calling for an onerous data retention regime,” he said. “’If we are ultimately compelled by law to collect such data, the government must be responsible for its storage and protection.”
Former NSA chief legal advisor Stewart Baker believes there should be no limits on the data collected, stating that “an unholy alliance of business and privacy activists” prevented the combating of terrorism. Liberal Senator, Ian MacDonald went on record saying he would “rather be alive and lack privacy than dead with my privacy intact,” also citing terrorism as their reasoning behind the new secretive legislation.
The legislation is set to be introduced into parliament later this year. Turnbull has said the costs will be “none and negligible” to customers and it is yet to be decided if the data stored will be kept onshore for authorities to access. [4]
Privacy. What do you think that word should mean? One of the most descriptive definitions from the wide world of Webster is:
“freedom from damaging publicity, public scrutiny, secret surveillance, or unauthorized disclosure of one’s personal data or information, as by a government, corporation, or individual”.
It’s far more than being able to walk around without clothing in the comfort of your own dwelling. At least it’s supposed to be. Exit 1950 and enter 2014 with new and improved privacy! There is absotively no reason to fret over any of it ever again! Why you ask? Because you have none and most people don’t even realize it. Anyone or any company with enough funds and intelligence can follow you, your actions and your shopping habits as they see fit. Most big companies even have YOUR permission to do it! It’s called their “privacy policy” and “terms of use”. It’s part of that long list of paragraphs, subsections, blurbs and itemized silliness that you are required to either sign or click on in order to be allowed to use their service. No clicky, no usey.
Let’s look at the giantacular Google once again. In March of 2014 they updated their policies. This is the short version that you agreed to (taken right from Google’s page):
“Information you give us. For example, many of our services require you to sign up for a Google Account. When you do, we’ll ask for personal information, like your name, email address, telephone number or credit card. If you want to take full advantage of the sharing features we offer, we might also ask you to create a publicly visible Google Profile, which may include your name and photo.
We may collect information about the services that you use and how you use them, like when you visit a website that uses our advertising services or you view and interact with our ads and content. This information includes:
Device information
Log information
details of how you used our service, such as your search queries.
telephony log information like your phone number, calling-party number, forwarding numbers, time and date of calls, duration of calls, SMS routing information and types of calls.
Internet protocol address.
device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL.
cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your Google Account.
Location information
Unique application numbers
Local storage
Cookies and anonymous identifiers “**
Yup, you just gave it all away in detail for the sake of convenience.
Watching the watchers: A demonstration of Collusion’s ‘real time’ view of advertisers watching – as web users browse popular sites such as IMDB (one of the grey dots), their movements are tracked by unwanted third party advertisers (the red dots)
Should you decide that you do not agree to this deal, you will not be allowed to use their services. The same things occur for just about every piece of software, smart phone, dumb phone, tablet or online coffee ordering website. Companies you’ve never heard of are watching you, tracking you and trying to predict what you’ll buy and how to get you to buy even more.
Now, you just may be one of those members of our anonymous population that has enough knowledge and currency to afford high end encryption and protection protocols. You may be reading this article and concentrating on what you think are spelling errors as opposed to the idea behind the words. I will only say… remember, there is always someone smarter than you are. Look at all the pictures of naked celebrities (that thought they were safe) that popped up. Someone was able to track and hack. Bye bye privacy.
What can we do? IS there anything we can do? Not when you give your permission to these money hounds.
Enter Mozilla, creator of Firefox. No, they didn’t figure out a way to stop the abuse. They DID decipher how to pull back the curtain so you can see who is watching you…all by yourself. The original project and beta version was called “Collusion” and was started in 2011 as an add-on to Firefox. Originally developed as a personal project by Mozilla engineer Atul Varma*** It tracks the trackers. It finds and follows companies that are finding and using your data via cookies and other tidbits. Since 2011, with the support of the Ford Foundation and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) “Collusion” has been twisted, turned, tweaked (not twerked) and re-imagined into “Lightbeam” and was officially released in the fall of 2013 for Firefox users. The system uses a clock, a list and a graph to “shine a light” where you travel in your browsing. It tracks when a third party asks for your information, plants a tracking cookie and more. You can actually watch as a spider web type of graph is built in real time while your browse. In many cases you can even look up a site, see what other sites are connected to them and drill in for more information. There is even a way to block sites that you don’t want sniffing around your browser. All the details are free to read right from the link below****
You now have a tool to fight back with. The only catch so far is you need to be using Firefox of course. Will this make the tracking companies and marketers shake in their boots? Probably not. Will it stop them from trying to sniff around your world uninvited? Never. What Mozilla has done is give you a tool to help protect you and yours. If enough people use it and enough money is lost; It’ll definitely leave a cherry-red mark on the arse of the giant(s).
Thank you Mr. Varma for thinking outside the box and to Mozilla for putting the idea to good use.
Million Mask March to remind the world that fairness, justice and freedom are more than just words.
So what is the largest collective real-world operation? Well if you think it is the Million Mask March then you are absolutely correct. In the previous year this event was able to get a huge success in causing the loosely knit network together for one whole day, it was because the event took place on a huge scale, it was practised in every city making Million Mask March a great accomplishment for Anonymous.
In the previous year, the homeless people from the city didn’t starve as Anonymous activists showed up well in advance of the 5th November and did a job that everyone of us should try to do at least once a week, they started feeding city’s homeless people. Marchers met each other on the morning of 5th November at Washington Memorial and then they soon made their way to march to Lafayette Park through the streets from the White House. All the efforts done by the Officers to hold the protesters were all worthless. A number of people were arrested in the event, whereas most of these arrests were just minor catch and release arrests, but some officers trumped several charges against an Anonymous activist that cuts a police line. But, as it is said that truth can’t be hidden for long, soon with the help of video evidence, the obvious lies by the officer were exposed and all the major charges on the Anonymous activist were discharged.
Due to the first arrest there was a tense atmosphere but soon the marchers got back in action and made their way to Pennsylvania Avenue where they continued their protest, which caused the closing down of country’s most famous street. On their way the marcher decided to take a halt at the Department of Justice Building but DOJ employees had different plans, they closed their doors and decided to stay inside until the marchers moved on. The activists then took their march toward the road of the Capitol and protested on their way. Later they took over all the streets of Nation’s Capital again and then made their way back to the White House, but before reaching their target the Activists stopped by some of the notable buildings which included World Bank, Monsanto.
Officers from DC were in a trouble on 5th, the reason was the unpredictable protest in the city, and some of the officers had intentions of conducting surveillance and trying to threaten the protesters whereas the rest of the officers put all their efforts in preventing the marchers from being hit by vehicles. The surveillances for the marchers were being led by the law enforcement officials and corporate entities.
For this year’s protest several big names are in the limelight, it was reported that Lee Camp and Immortal will be attending the DC march, whereas the author of FREEDOM! And famous activist Adam Kokesh has made a commitment that he will be attending the Denver March. Not only these two guys, the man known a Steve Grant who filmed a music video at the DC march the previous year is also joining the march this year. People like Stewart Rhodes of the Oath Keeper and Bobby Seale of the Black Panther movement are invited to join the protest this year. It looks like the goal of Million Mask March which is bringing different activist movements around the political spectrum and uniting them. The representatives which are expected to join are from the civil rights, LGBT, veterans, food awareness, and media corruption movements.
The Anti-Media had a talk with John Fairhurst who is an arranger of the Million Masks March, regarding this year’s event, he replied:-
I think this year is going to be more intense than last year. Due to the current state of international affairs as well as on-going domestic issues. I think this year will be somewhat different because as cliché as it is: people are sick and tired of being sick and tired. The overreaching arm of the government as well as the militarized police state is blatantly obvious even to those who are not ‘awake’.
For this year, the schedule for event is as follows:-
The event will start at 9am at the Washington Monument and then they will march to the White House at 10:30am. After that, we can only guess. It seems like the organizers are capitalizing the hard to guess nature of Anonymous, this is for their try to maintain a kind of suspense as no one knows what will happen next and can only keep guessing what is going to happen the next moment. Organizers are recommending people joining the march to bring water, protein bars (non-GMO), and cool heads.
John Fairhurst highlighted the collective’s commitment to non-violence, and mentioned:-
The time is now people. All over the world the shift is happening; now or never. It’s time to go beastmode. It’s time to make a decision, a very important one, probably the most important. Make it now. The rEVOLution will not be televised. It will be in your front yard.
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