Basic Introduction to
Global Surveillance
Just some basic knowledge
Edward Snowden
PRISM
Basic Introduction to Global Surveillance
Basic Introduction to Global Surveillance
Basic Introduction to Global Surveillance
So what? Is that a big deal?
Why privacy matters?
Nothing to hide arguement
If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you
shouldn't be doing it in the first place - Eric Schmidt
Maybe you should send me your
Facebook password :)
No? But you said privacy don’t matter !?
Even those who say
privacy doesn’t matter
know importance of it.
What I’m searching, reading,
thinking, writing is NONE OF
YOUR BUSINESS.
If you give me six lines written by
the hand of the most honest of
men, I will find something in them
which will hang him.
- Cardinal Richelieu
Self-censorship?
Panopticon
Designed by Jeremy Bentham in
the late 18th century
“a new mode of obtaining power
of mind over mind, in a quantity
hitherto without example.”
- Bentham
When people are being
watched, their behaviors
are more conformist and
compliant.
These collected data may be
used to accuse you of your
previous behavior or thought in
the future.
McCarthyism
So, there is “something to hide”.
“But we want to find terrorists
and protect the innocent people!”,
you might ask.
Finding terrorists among world leaders?
Fruit of the poisonous tree
Privacy IS the cornerstone of a
liberal democracy.
If there is no right to privacy, there can be no
true freedom of expression and opinion, and
therefore, there can be no effective
democracy.
- Dilma Rousseff
No rule breaker, no innovation.
If not all criminals are caught,
there might be chances we can
think “Well, that’s not as bad as
we thought.” - Idea raised by Moxie Marlinspike
Surveillance for Political Purpose
Leaders of social movements,
such as Martin Luther King, or
specific NGO, such as Code Pink,
were targeted by the NSA.
Privacy REALLY matters!
So, what are those so-called
“Intelligence Agency” doing?
Some Famous Global Surveillance Project
● XKeyscore
● PRISM
● ECHELON
● Carnivore
● DISHFIRE
● STONEGHOST
● Tempora
● Frenchelon
● DCSN
● Boundless Informant
● BULLRUN
● PINWALE
● Stingray SORM
● Fairview
● MYSTIC
In-depth Study of the Surveillance
Projects Carry Out by the USA
Well, maybe not “in-depth” :|
Let’s start with some statistics
$72 Billion
Annual cost for surveillance projects (in USD)
7.04 Billion
people around the world, granted by the laws of USA.
NSA has right to monitor
29 PB
of data are intercepted by NSA per day.
5 Million
US citizens have been investigated secretly.
2776 Times
According to the data already published.
Real amount of cases may be hundreds of times higher than the published
number.
Employees of NSA were caught reading people’s data illegaly for
Utah Data Center
140,000 m2
The size of Utah Data Center
1012
TB
The amount of data can be stored in Utah Data Center
$4 Billion
dollars were spent to build Utah Data Center
$40 million
dollars per year
Electricity used for running Utah Data Center cost
NSA has betrayed the world's trust.
- Mikko Hypponen
How about other countries?
● France, Germany, Austria:
Contents related to Nazi
● South Korea:
Contents about North Korea
● Some Middle-East
Anti-Islam contents
The Great Firewall of China
How about Taiwan?
經濟部智財局封鎖境外
侵權網站事件
電信法第九條修正案
Basic Introduction to Global Surveillance
Basic Introduction to Global Surveillance
Hacking Team
How do Intelligence agency
monitor us?
Active Method: Hacking
Passive Method: Package Intercepting
UN Reports
A/66/290
A/HRC/23/40
A/HRC/17/27
Recommended Speeches
Glenn Greenwald: Why privacy matters
Recommended Speeches
Mikko Hypponen: How the NSA betrayed the world's trust
Recommended Speeches
Edward Snowden: Here's how we take back the Internet
Internet has become 'world's
largest surveillance network'.
- Tim Berners-Lee
Thank you.

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