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XKEYSCORE: NSA’S Google For The World’s Private Communications
One of the National Security Agency’s most powerful tools of mass surveillance makes tracking someone’s Internet usage as easy as entering an email address, …
New Snowden leak: NSA uses warrantless Web surveillance to hunt hackers
Ever since Edward Snowden began to leak details on the mass surveillance programs of the NSA and other government agencies, there’s been an ongoing …
UK police requests to access phone calls or emails are granted 93% of the time
Ministers are facing calls to curb the scale of police access to private phone and email records, after a report by privacy campaigners found …
Key Parts of Patriot Act Expire Temporarily as Senate Moves Toward Limits on Spying
The government’s authority to sweep up vast quantities of phone records in the hunt for terrorists expired at 12:01 a.m. Monday after Senator Rand …
NSA winds down once-secret phone-records collection program
The National Security Agency has begun winding down its collection and storage of American phone records after the Senate failed to agree on a …
Google Patents Toys That Watch and Listen to Your Kids
Worried about Google snooping on your Web browsing or email? That may be the least of the Internet giant’s intrusions if this patent for …
Critics blast NSA phone records bill as ‘fake reform’
A lopsided vote in the U.S. House of Representatives this week to rein in the National Security Agency’s domestic telephone records dragnet won muted …
Attorney: Spy chief had ‘forgotten’ about NSA program when he misled Congress
Director of National Intelligence Jim Clapper wasn’t lying when he wrongly told Congress in 2013 that the government does not “wittingly” collect information about …
NSA mass phone surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden ruled illegal
The US court of appeals has ruled that the bulk collection of telephone metadata is unlawful, in a landmark decision that clears the way …
New database taps LinkedIn to watch the NSA watchers
Everyday people are transforming the way police officers behave thanks to the power of camera-enabled smartphones. Now, the advocacy group Transparency Toolkit wants to …
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