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Happy Thanksgiving from the NSA
Here’s this week’s news from the NSA. Yes, when it comes to international espionage and snooping, in less than a century we’ve gone from a US Secretary of State declaring, “Gentlemen do not read each...
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How the NSA reportedly uses Google cookies could be next privacy flash point
Web cookies that allow advertisers to keep tabs on individual Internet users’ browsing habits are being co-opted by the National Security Agency to focus its cyberespionage – potentially...
View ArticleNSA officials consider Edward Snowden amnesty in return for documents
National Security Agency officials are considering a controversial amnesty that would return Edward Snowden to the United States, in exchange for the extensive document trove the whistleblower took...
View ArticleGrad student proves NSA can link metadata to your identity with ‘marginal...
A Stanford graduate student has shown just how easily names can be matched with phone records, contradicting some of the legal justification offered by federal authorities for the National Security...
View ArticleAnti-communist watchdog: NSA should spy on ‘progressive’ lawmakers like...
After Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) demanded to know whether the NSA was spying on U.S. Congress members, one self-styled media watchdog suggests that maybe they should. “Not one article has dared to ask...
View ArticleAnti-SOPA coalition launches day of action against the NSA
Almost exactly two years after national protests defeated the so-called Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and one year after information activist Aaron Swartz took his own life, Washington is in the midst...
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New federal spending bill will demand transparency on NSA surveillance programs
2014 Federal Spending Bill Contains Demands For Transparency On NSA Surveillance Programs (via Techdirt) Hidden in the 1,500+ pages of the $1.1 trillion federal funding bill is a stipulation aimed at...
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Will Monsanto become the NSA of agriculture?
Will Monsanto Become The NSA Of Agriculture? (via Techdirt) Monsanto is best-known for its controversial use of genetically-modified organisms, and less well-known for being involved in the story of...
View ArticleU.S. privacy board: NSA mass surveillance illegal and should be shut down
The bulk telephone data collection by a US intelligence agency is a massive violation of civil liberties and should be shut down, a government advisory panel said Thursday. A report by the Privacy and...
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Tech security researchers tell Obama: NSA spying has broken communication...
Open Letter From Security Researchers Explains How NSA Has Weakened Our Communications Infrastructure (via Techdirt) Among the many problems with President Obama’s weak statement concerning NSA...
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NSA also serves U.S. corporations: Snowden interview
The US National Security Agency (NSA) sometimes uses data it collects for economic purposes, intelligence leaker Edward Snowden reveals in an extract of an interview with a German television chain to...
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More states looking to neutralize NSA through local legislation
The NSA’s new data center in Utah has provided the flashpoint for legislation targeted at “nullifying” the agency by cutting off its access to public utilities and/or leveraging the powers granted to...
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NSA got access to 40,000 Yahoo and Google user accounts in first 6 months of...
Last week, we noted that the DOJ and various internet companies had settled their legal fight, which concerned whether or not those companies could reveal the details of how many FISA Court requests...
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Lawmaker warns Justice Dept.: Support NSA reform or lose key Patriot Act...
Congress Warns DOJ That If It Doesn’t Support NSA Reform Plan, It Won’t Renew Key Patriot Act Provision (via Techdirt) While the USA Freedom Act isn’t perfect, it is one bill in Congress that has a...
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NSA report suggests Edward Snowden had three possible collaborators
The NSA Offers Up Three Possible Contributors To Snowden’s Leaks To Its Congressional Oversight (via Techdirt) The question has often been asked, but without a satisfactory answer: how did Snowden end...
View ArticleRevealed: Unnamed American law firm ensnared in NSA surveillance
n unnamed U.S. law firm was caught up in the global surveillance of the National Security Agency (NSA) and its overseas partners in Australia, according to a newspaper report on Saturday. A top secret...
View ArticleNSA technology capable of retrieving and replaying month-old phone calls
The National Security Agency has technology capable of recording all the phone calls of an entire country and replaying them later, a report based on leaked documents said Tuesday. The Washington Post,...
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Pentagon overseer admits he was ‘not aware’ of NSA’s bulk data collection
Pentagon’s Watchdog In Charge Of NSA Oversight Admits He Was ‘Not Aware’ Of NSA’s Bulk Data Collection (via Techdirt) We hear it over and over again from defenders of the NSA: the programs, such as...
View ArticleReport: Obama proposal would curb NSA’s mass phone data collection
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House is preparing a proposal that would curb the bulk collection of phone records by the National Security Agency, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing...
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Would you trust the NSA’s advice on how to deal with the ‘Heartbleed’ bug?
Would You Trust The NSA’s Advice On How To Deal With Heartbleed? (via Techdirt) Somewhat late to the game (by about a week), after the Heartbleed vulnerability was publicly revealed, and a few days...
View ArticleGuardian Reader’s Editor: How the Guardian won the Pulitzer prize
The last column about the Guardian’s stories of surveillance by the NSA and GCHQ on 23 September 2013 was three months after the first of the series. The reason I waited to write was to allow the dust...
View ArticleJohn McCain: Young people upset about NSA spying because we’ve forgotten 9/11
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) recently suggested that young people were upset with the National Security Agency’s surveillance operations because they had forgotten about the September 11 terrorist attacks....
View ArticleThe USA Freedom Act: Bill to end NSA’s bulk collection of phone records advances
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bill to end the government’s bulk collection of telephone records got a unanimous go-ahead on Thursday from a second U.S. congressional committee,...
View ArticleHouse panels approve bill putting a stop to NSA phone data gathering
U.S. lawmakers Thursday advanced a measure that reins in NSA surveillance Thursday, signaling final passage of reforms aimed at ending bulk data collection could come quicker than expected. Easing what...
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NSA controversy sparks rush for encrypted email
NSA row sparks rush for encrypted email (via AFP) A new push to encrypt email, keeping messages free from government snooping, is gaining momentum. One new email service promising “end-to-end”...
View ArticleNew NSA director promises greater transparency after Snowden revelations
As U.S. National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers seeks to repair the damage to the agency caused by leaks about its electronic spying programs, the abuses of government revealed in the wake of the...
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Snowden: NSA revealed only one email and they’ve lied before
Snowden: NSA Revealed Only One Email, Shows NSA Lied Before… Also: None Of This Matters (via Techdirt) After NBC confirmed Ed Snowden’s earlier claims that he had tried to make use of internal...
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Revealed: NSA intercepting ‘millions of images’ a day to fill facial...
NSA Intercepting ‘Millions Of Images’ Per Day In Order To Fill Facial Recognition Database (via Techdirt) Laura Poitras and James Risen have released another NSA document at the New York Times, this...
View ArticleHouse approves bill to bar the NSA from carrying out searches without a court...
The US House of Representatives approved a bill that would restrict the electronic surveillance powers of the National Security Agency (NSA). The margin was wide, 293 to 123, for the bill attached to...
View ArticleSex shaming is the American way
Philanderers who bought into AshleyMadison.com’s motto that “life’s too short” and you should “have an affair” will probably have to come clean to their spouses soon considering the website for the...
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