And the domestic spying gets worse …
USA Today is reporting: Under watch from the National Security Agency and the FBI, people are being closely monitored by Silicon Valley Internet giants, according to a report, in a massive...
View ArticleThe UK government is piggybacking on Prism
From The Guardian: The UK’s electronic eavesdropping and security agency, GCHQ, has been secretly gathering intelligence from the world’s biggest internet companies through a covertly run operation set...
View ArticleHow the Prism surveillance program works (updated)
The Washington Post has all the details. And it increasingly looks as if the NSA can access real-time data (including log-iins, meta-data, message contents and more) using equipment located at the...
View ArticleMicrosoft helps NSA breach Microsoft’s own encryption
The latest from The Guardian: Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users’ communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to...
View ArticleEFF files suit challenging constitutionality of PRISM
From Wired: A broad coalition of groups supporting everything from religion, drugs, and digital rights to guns and the environment sued the National Security Agency today, demanding a federal judge...
View ArticlePRISM could trigger a windfall . . . for Europe
Barb Darrow, writing for GigaOM, shows how the NSA‘s PRISM program could lead to a windfall for EU cloud service providers. All they have to do is to advertise that their cloud providers are not...
View ArticleMicrosoft and Google jointly sue government
According to a release from Brad Smith, Microsoft’s General Counsel, both Microsoft and Google are suing the Federal government for the right to disclose significantly more information regarding the...
View ArticleA majority of American’s support the Snowden whistleblowing
An interesting new poll will be coming out shortly that shows that most Americans support Edward Snowden’s efforts to reveal the surveillance state created in the US following 9/11. According to a...
View ArticleNSA collects and retains 9 times more data on untargeted Americans than the...
The Washington Post is reporting that data collected by the NSA includes far more data about untargeted Americans (and others) that data collected about actual surveillance targets, and that such...
View ArticleCommunications collected by the NSA are an attractive nuisance
Michael P. Lynch has written an important analysis of the NSA’s large and growing collection of the full content of American’s communications. He highlights the dangers of abuse of such a collection...
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