500+ Writers Petition the UN for Digital Rights
Hot on the heels of the IT industry's Reform Government Surveillance group open letter to the US Government yesterday, today a group of 560 international authors from 81 countries, including 5 Nobel...
View ArticleNSA Admits It Has No Idea How Much Snowden Knows
This is rich. After spending billions of dollars and running to their secret Kangaroo Court to peek into your underwear, monitor your phone calls, break into your internet databases, and read...
View Article"Indiscriminate, Arbitrary, almost Orwellian" ... so says Judge about the NSA
Wow.Finally, someone of standing, brave enough to say what many of us have been thinking.In a District Court of Law no less. Without mincing words.U.S. judge says phone surveillance program likely...
View ArticleClapper Fingers Snowden &"Accomplices" at Intelligence Hearing
恭禧发财Citations & Background :WaPo 2014.01.30 Transcript: Senate Intelligence hearing on national security threatsNational Journal 2014.01.29 : Obama Team Stonewalls Democrat on Spying QuestionsWaPo...
View ArticleKansas moves to Stop Broadband Internet to residents
The State of Kansas could often be said to be one of those places where torturing your residents just makes sense. While the work against women, children, the disabled, schools and others continues,...
View ArticleTerror Suspect Challenges Admissibility of Bulk Surveillance
Jamshid Muhtorov files motion to suppress evidence prosecutors admit was collected through warrantless eavesdroppingA criminal defendant in Colorado has launched what could shape up to be a decisive...
View ArticleNew Obama Foreign Policy Doctrine? F**k the EU?
The European Parliament announced today that it will vote next week on an action plan to protect the privacy of its citizens from the mass surveillance practices of the NSA.At stake is the eventual...
View ArticleEU Vote Demanding End to Mass Surveillance Passes 33-7 with 17 abstaining
The European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE Committee) voted this morning to adopt the Draft Resolution on US NSA surveillance programme, surveillance bodies in various Member States and...
View ArticleAngela Merkel hits the U.S. Government where it counts
Well that didn't take long:German Chancellor Angela Merkel is proposing building up a European communications network to help improve data protection. It would avoid emails and other data automatically...
View ArticleSnowden Testifies to EU About NSA Invasion of Europeans' Privacy
http://www.pcworld.com/...Yet another example of an agency completely out of control, without boundaries, limits, or (apparently) any ethical compunctions whatsoever:The U.S. National Security Agency...
View ArticleSnowden Breaks Silence (sort of)
Monday, Edward Snowden broke radio silence for the second time in a week (after addressing the EU in writing - PDF) when he participated in a keynote interview to the SXSW 2014 Monday.Hosted by the...
View ArticleUS Tech Industry Faces Backlash Over Data Collection Practices in Europe
The European Parliament held a three hour debate today on mass surveillance conducted by the NSA and other spying agencies elsewhere in preparation for a vote tomorrow by its 766 members representing...
View ArticleNSA Shootout : Snowden v. Ledgett
This week at TED 2014 - The Next Chapter, the 30th anniversary of the conference series, Edward Snowden, Whistleblower, was invited to address the audience from Russia via the internet in a Q&A...
View ArticleFBI Abruptly Walks Out of Grassley/Leahy Briefing on 'Insider Threat Program'
When launched there were many concerns about the administrations 'insider threat program'. Not only was it overly intrusive into the lives of government workers, it fostered a climate of paranoia:Even...
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FCC to consider rule gutting Net Neutrality
FCC Chair Tom Wheeler Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler will propose a new set of rules issued in response to a January federal court decision that tossed out the agency's prior...
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Democracy at risk as plutocracy hones in on taking over the Internet
This week Net Neutrality was once again placed on notice. The door is being opened to a privileged network in which those with money may be afforded smooth, speedy access to the Internet while those...
View ArticleNSA Reform Bills Suddenly Appear !
As we crawl toward the one year anniversary of the end of The Pre-Snowden Era, suddenly, after a long pause of the sausage grinder, the sort-of and not-really NSA reform bills (USA Freedom Act - H.R....
View ArticleObama - citing Snowden leaks punishable - truth???
in the days before the release of Glenn Greenwald's new book on May 13, the administration and the surveillance state seems to be more nervous than evernow we also get official policy about "authorized...
View ArticleDid Hayden and Alexander violate the ODNI "Pre-publication Review" policy?
Effective 2014 April 08, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) which oversees 16 US national intelligence agencies including the NSA, issued INSTRUCTION 80.04 (PDF), an updated...
View ArticleUS ISPs Threaten to Slow Innovation and Network Upgrades if Reclassified...
They call it a warning.What it is is a threat.The major ISPs that make up the trade group Broadband for America had their CEOs lay it all out on the table in this letter to the FCC:Not only is it...
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Is it time to take back the internet & rein-in mass-surveillance?
One Year Ago ...... in its 2013 June 06 UK edition, The Guardian published an article by Greenwald, MacAskill & Ackerman, "NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily",...
View ArticleLandmark Ruling by 11th Circuit Court on Cell Phone Tracking & Metadata
Ruling rejects 3rd Party Doctrine underpining warrantless metatdata collectionOn Wednesday, 2014.06.11, the United States 11th Circuit Court of Appeals made a landmark ruling in United States v. Davis,...
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House Votes to Cut NSA & CIA Funding and Ban Clandestine "Backdoor" Surveillance
Bipartisan majority cuts funding for warrantless spying on Americans and bans insertion of "Backdoor" surveillance measures on IT products and servicesIn an unexpected late vote Thursday 2014.06.19, a...
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Join NSA's XKeyscore Database by Clicking These Convenient Links
About that awesome time I was an "extremist":My extremist profile: • foreign national/foreign resident• Linux user/coder• occasional Linux Journal reader• occasional Tor/TAILS user (past tense)•...
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The Greatest Threat to Freedom of the Press
The greatest threat to the freedom of the press and expression doesn't come from extremists -- it comes from government itself. Leaders and dignitaries from across the world convened in...
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Clinton or Sanders: A User-Safe Daily Kos Election Primer
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View ArticleFederal agents used 'cellphone snooping device' to find and arrest...
A team of FBI and ICE agents used an "anti-terror tool” the ACLU is calling “invasive surveillance technology” to locate and arrest an undocumented restaurant worker in Detroit, the “first public...
View ArticleAs his approval rating takes a hit, Trump warns: 'Don't believe the crap you...
Donald Trump's Helsinki sell out to Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to have been an inflection point of sorts. Some congressional Republicans are actually starting to openly break with Trump...
View ArticleUpdated: White House edits out question about election interference, rewrites...
Updated to add link to video of Rachel’s segment about this.The Atlantic reports that Reuters reporter Jeff Mason’s question to Putin was edited out of the White House transcript. What was the original...
View ArticleDraft Executive Order to Punish Social Media for Political Bias
We came in with an internet, we came up with the internet.And I think Secretary Clinton and myself would agree very much, when you look at what ISIS is doing with the internet, they're beating us at...
View ArticleTrump, upset that google & facebook are fighting Russian fake news plans...
Business insider got its hands on a draft executive order directing agencies to go after the two for “the exercise of bias” or more accurately for not exercising bias in favor of Trump. It includes...
View ArticleTrump campaign announces the most Orwellian, '1984'-inspired propaganda push...
The Trump campaign is going into overdrive. Along with the rest of the Republican Party, the push to blitz the media landscape with misinformation has ramped up as the coronavirus pandemic has laid...
View ArticleFacebook outage - what happened and what next?
By now, almost everyone in the world knows about the total service and connectivity outage that afflicted Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and few other services owned by Facebook. The outage started...
View ArticleDefense Dept Announces It Has An Automated System To Vet Personnel Security...
This is a game changer, and most of us should sleep better tonight…The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency has successfully enrolled all Defense Department service members, civilians and...
View ArticleBreaking: Newly Declassified Documents Reveal Previously Secret CIA Bulk...
Newly declassified documents reveal that the CIA has been secretly conducting massive surveillance programs that capture Americans’ private information. This news release exposing the documents is just...
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