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NSA Waited Until Christmas Eve To Release Details Of Its Illegal Surveillance On AmericansNSA Waited Until Christmas Eve To Release Details Of Its Illegal Surveillance On Americans
NSA Waited Until Christmas Eve To Release Details Of Its Illegal Surveillance On Americans
One of the recurring storylines from NSA defenders is that there’s been “no abuse” of the surveillance programs. Except, that’s not true. Leaked and …
Amazon-CIA $600 Million Deal Facing Scrutiny: “What’s the CIA Doing on Amazon’s Cloud?”
A billboard challenging Amazon to fully disclose the terms of its $600 million contract to provide cloud computing services for the Central Intelligence Agency …
The Snowden Effect: 750 Million People Have Taken Steps to Avoid Surveillance
Compared to the initial flood of astonishing revelations provided by Edward Snowden in the summer of 2013, things have gone relatively quiet on the …
How Congress Secretly Just Legitimized Questionable NSA Mass Surveillance Tool
We recently noted that, despite it passing overwhelmingly, Congress quietly deleted a key bit of NSA reform that would have blocked the agency from …
Judge Posner Says NSA Should Be Able To Get Everything & That Privacy Is Overrated
Judge Richard Posner is probably one of the most well-known and quoted appellate judges around. He’s an excellent writer as well, and I enjoy …
GCHQ does not breach human rights, judges rule
The current system of UK intelligence collection does not currently breach the European Convention of Human Rights, a panel of judges has ruled. A …
Like The NSA And GCHQ, Germany’s Foreign Intelligence Agency Uses A Legal Loophole To Spy On Its Own Citizens
One of the striking features of the responses to Edward Snowden’s leaks about the snooping being carried out by the NSA and GCHQ is …
Operation Auroragold – How The NSA Hacks Cellphone Networks Worldwide
In March 2011, two weeks before the Western intervention in Libya, a secret message was delivered to the National Security Agency. An intelligence unit …
US senator wants to ban government back doors in phones, PCs
US Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has introduced a bill on the Senate floor that takes aim at government mandates requiring companies to build back …
Appeals Court to Hear Oral Arguments in Idaho Woman’s Case Against NSA Spying
EFF, ACLU Support Smith in Fighting Mass Surveillance Before Ninth Circuit Seattle – An appeals court will hear oral arguments in Smith v. Obama, …
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