NSA Whistleblower Agency’s Prime Concerns are Money & Power, US is “Totalitarian”
Binney: 'The NSA's main motives: power and money' Whistleblower William Binney recently made headlines when he told the German parliament that the NSA, his
SAIC to Build Surveillance Grid in Oakland to Track Political Activists
Oakland To Build Surveillance Grid Tracking Political Activist’s Behaviors Grants funded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and implemented
Big Data + Big Pharma = Big Money
January 10, 2014 Need another reminder of how much drugmakers spend to discover what doctors are prescribing? Look no further than new documents from the
FRIENDLY TECHNOFASCISM WITH GREAT COMPUTING POWER COMES GREAT SURVEILLANCE
January 10, 2014 Nearly 50 years ago, Gordon Moore suggested that the number of transistors that could be placed on a silicon chip would continue to doubl
Graphs by MIT Students Show the Enormously Intrusive Nature of Metadata
You've probably heard politicians or pundits say that “metadata doesn't matter.” They argue that police and intelligence agencies shouldn't need probab
A Search Engine To Find Secrets The Government Doesn’t Want You To Know
Go ahead, use the search engine. America's public servants can't very well object to citizens spying on them if they have nothing to hide. Besides, Presi
Former CIA Boss, Task Force Member Says Even Though Metadata Collection Hasn’t Been Useful, It Should Be Expanded
December 24, 2013 We've pointed out that one of the big surprises in the White House's task force proposals on NSA reform, was that the task force was p
Perception Management Wall Street Journal Columnist Repeatedly gets Facts Wrong about NSA Surveillance
Now that illicit NSA surveillance has been exposed and universally deplored, it's time to raise our hackles over media perception management. A "conservati
“Patriot Act Author ‘There has been a Failure of Oversight.’” (WaPo)
Photo: Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner is the author of the Patriot Act — and an opponent of how it has been used to justify broad domestic spying powers. (Jim Wa
The Evolution of the NSA’s XKeyscore
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
Government Continues to Avoid Court Rulings on Domestic Surveillance
by emptywheel | FireDogLake | April 19, 2010 FISA Court Encourages Government to Stop Collecting Some Metadata National Security Agency Director Keith B.
Data Mining by NSA Spurred Confrontation on U.S. Spying
By Scott Shane and David Johnston International Herald Tribune July 29, 2007 WASHINGTON: A 2004 dispute over the National Security Agency's secret surveil