How the NSA went from off-the-shelf to a homegrown “Google for packets.” The National Security Agency’s (NSA) apparatus for spying on what passes over the Internet, phone lines, and airways has long been the stuff ...
Also see: “Are small-fry encrypted email ISPs using feds as excuse for closure?” Secret demands mark escalation in Internet surveillance by the federal government through gaining access to user passwords, which are typically stored in ...
” … Those now reading Nineteen Eighty-Four for the first time (or the first time since their teens) must be struck by how much Orwell got right … the bugging of everywhere, helicopters monitoring the citizens ...
” … The NSA presents its surveillance operations as being directed toward security issues. … However, secret NSA documents reveal that their surveillance is used to gather intelligence to achieve political goals for the US ...
Mere hours before the world was introduced to Edward Snowden, more than 400 people, many of them from Hawaii’s intelligence community, gathered for a gala inside the hangar of the Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor ...
Photo: A New York City police officer near the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday, July 11, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) (Todd Gitlin, a professor of journalism and sociology, is chair ...
Also see: Constantine Report Surveillance Archive BERLIN: Fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden said the US National Security Agency operates broad secret spying partnerships with other western governments now complaining about its programmes, in an interview ...
Think the CIA only spies abroad? Think again. According to a New York Times article published yesterday, a recently disclosed CIA report found that “four Central Intelligence Agency officers were embedded with the New York Police Department in ...
June 22, 2013 SAN JOSE — An otherwise adoring crowd of liberal activists booed and interrupted House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Saturday as she defended the Obama administration’s electronic surveillance practices at a political ...
Photo: The controversy about undercover policing began with the Guardian’s revelations about Mark Kennedy. (Philipp Ebeling for the Guardian) New approval procedures for using spies will be required under legislation announced by minister for policing ...
Also see: “Verizon Spook William P. Barr has Long Been an Advocate of Spying on Civilians” (Excerpt) [ … ] Verizon Executive Vice President and General Counsel William P. Barr began his career as an ...
Verizon security chief used to be high level official at FBI The current chief of security of Verizon, a company embroiled in controversy over the recent revelation of a secret government domestic spy program, is ...
“… Narrative Science’s technology helps address the intelligence community’s challenge of analyzing massive amounts of data, such as video surveillance footage, a history of financial transactions or social media postings. … ‘We think it represents ...
The Stockholder in the Sand Excerpt from Vanity Fair, March 21, 2013 … The ties between Alwaleed and Murdoch run deep. Alwaleed owns 56.2 million shares of Murdoch’s News Corporation; News Corporation, in turn, owns a ...
“ … ‘If the government shows up in your neighborhood, essentially every phone is going to check in with the government,’ said the ACLU’s Soghoian. … “ Blocked by a Supreme Court decision from using ...
Suspect turned informant gives new evidence to Met before parliament vote on newspaper regulation March 15, 2013 Detectives are examining an estimated 600 fresh allegations of phone-hacking incidents at Rupert Murdoch’s now closed News of ...
” … Judge Collyer was appointed to the bench by President George W. Bush. In September 2011, she authored an opinion accepting the CIA’s view that for the CIA merely to acknowledge the fact that ...
Hacktivist group says 14GB of data includes evidence that Bank of America engaged in an effort to “spy and collect information on private citizens.” February 28, 2013 In its latest salvo against the financial industry, ...
Also see: “SourceWatch on Mantech” and “Domestic Spying, Inc.“ Press Release FAIRFAX, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ManTech International Corporation (NASDAQ:MANT) named Brian McHugh Vice President for Program Development and Risk Management. McHugh will develop and implement national security ...
By Joshua Kopstein The Verge, February 1, 2013 As unmanned aerial vehicles continue to populate the skies above battlefields and college campuse faster than anyone can count them, the US government has taken a keen interest ...
“… Verint sells what it calls ‘monitoring centers’ that ‘enable the interception, monitoring, and analysis of target and mass communications over virtually any network.’ These systems are designed to be integrated within a country’s communications ...
By Beau Hodai PRWatch, December 31, 2012 Records obtained from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) by DBA Press and the Center for Media and Democracy (DBA/CMD) through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request ...
AC note: I have to ask Naomi Wolf if she still believes that the U.S. is “going fascist” — a claim that had some validity 50 years ago when John Kennedy was murdered in broad ...
EPIC Sues CIA For Release Of Documents Concerning Domestic Spying It Swears It’s Not Doing from the whatever-happened-to-‘if-you-have-nothing-to-hide…?’ dept TechDirt We’ve written several times before about domestic spying being performed by the government agencies, most ...
Suit over domestic surveillance will reveal state secrets, say DOJ lawyers By Joe Mullin arstechnica, Dec 14 2012 SAN FRANCISCO, California—Warrantless wiretapping by the National Security Agency began as a Bush-era program in October 2001; ...
From The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund In light of the passage of the NDAA yesterday despite last year’s Section 1021 being thrown out by a Federal judge, these documents make it clear that the ...
By Doug Oakley Inside Bay Area, December 16, 2012 BERKELEY — City leaders on Tuesday will consider a proposal to declare the air here a “No Drone Zone” to prevent law enforcement from using small ...
” … The expansion of the agency’s clandestine role is likely to heighten concerns that it will be accompanied by an escalation in lethal strikes and other operations outside public view. Because of differences in ...
By Gary Martin Houston Chronicle, November 24, 2012 WASHINGTON – Are unmanned aircraft, known to have difficulty avoiding collisions, safe to use in America’s crowded airspace? And would their widespread use for surveillance result in ...
Did you know Microsoft helps fund the National Fusion Center Association which, in turn, helps police departments buy surveillance tech? In fact, it provides fusion architecture and the Microsoft Fusion Core Solution. By Ms. Smith ...
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES JAMES R. CLAPPER, JR., DIRECTOR : OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, ET AL. : v. : AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA, ET http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/11-1025.pdf
By Peter Maass and Megha Rajagopalan ProPublica Gen. Keith Alexander is the director of the National Security Agency and oversees U.S. Cyber Command, which means he leads the government’s effort to protect America from cyberattacks. ...
By Daniel J. Sernovitz Washington Business Journal, October 8, 2012 The National Capital Planning Commission has approved final details of the first phase of a $300 million intelligence campus being developed at the former National ...
Dear Prime Minister, We are individual victims of the unlawful and unethical conduct of the press in recent years. This conduct has included phone hacking, industrial scale data-mining, bribery of public officials, inappropriate contact with ...
Byrd created a stir in the mid-1960s within the nation’s intelligence community when he obtained secret FBI reports leaked by the CIA By LAWRENCE MESSINA Associated Press, August 4, 2012 U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd ...
