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NSA used taxpayer dollars to cover PRISM compliance costs for tech companies
The mounting national debt? Yeah, you're probably better off just ignoring why exactly it's mounting. The Guardian is continuing the blow the lid off of the whole NSA / PRISM saga, today revealing new documents that detail how the NSA paid out "millions" of dollars to cover PRISM compliance costs for a multitude of monolithic tech outfits.
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NSA promises transparency by launching new Tumblr blog
As scrutiny of the activities of the US National Security Agency (NSA) continues, a new Tumblr blog launched by the Office of the Director of National Security is promising more transparency on “lawful foreign surveillance activities” carried out by US agencies.
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Snowden denies being source of The Independent's
The UK's Independent newspaper published its first exclusive story on the NSA leaks, claiming that it is based upon "documents obtained from the NSA by Edward Snowden." The story exposes the existence of a "secret" UK base in the Middle East.
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Chelsea Manning's statement on sentencing
After Army judge Colonel Denise Lind announced the 35-year sentence for Bradley Manning on Wednesday, defense attorney David Coombs read a statement from the soldier that will be part of a pardon request to be submitted to President Barack Obama.
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Snowden suspected of covering electronic tracks
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government's efforts to determine which highly classified materials leaker Edward Snowden took from the National Security Agency have been frustrated by Snowden's sophisticated efforts to cover his digital trail by deleting or bypassing electronic logs, government officials told The Associated Press. Such logs would have showed what information Snowden viewed or downloaded.
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The Guy Who Used To Protect Your Facebook Data Now Works For The NSA
Last week Mike Riley of Bloomberg, citing four people familiar with the process, reported that thousands of companies work closely with U.S. national security agencies by swapping sensitive trade information for benefits including access to classified intelligence.
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NSA Officers Sometimes Spy on Love Interests
National Security Agency officers on several occasions have channeled their agency’s enormous eavesdropping power to spy on love interests, U.S. officials said.
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New Zealand appears to have used NSA spy network to target Kim Dotcom
A new examination of previously published affidavits from the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB)—the New Zealand equivalent of the National Security Agency (NSA)—appears to suggest that the GCSB used the “Five Eyes” international surveillance network to capture the communications of Kim Dotcom, the founder of Megaupload.
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NSA spied on UN, German report says
The UN headquarters were being wiretapped by American intelligence agency NSA, according to German news magazine Der Spiegel. If confirmed, it would be against a long-standing agreement between the US and the UN.
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Even in the 1960s, the NSA was sweeping up phone call records 'like a giant vacuum'
Face it: the NSA knows plenty about you, and our growing reliance on technology is only making the agency's controversial surveillance efforts easier. But the National Security Agency has been around for a long time, predating the internet and your email inbox by decades.
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Matt Damon: Edward Snowden did a great thing
In a brief interview slipped onto YouTube, the actor who must know a thing or two about the covert world offers that Edward Snowden seems "conscientious" and that we should all decide whether to give up our civil liberties.
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Snowden got stuck in Russia after Cuba blocked entry
Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden got stuck in the transit zone of a Moscow airport because Havana said it would not let him fly from Russia to Cuba, a Russian newspaper reported on Monday.
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Why NSA Snooping Is a Much Bigger Deal in Germany
In Germany, furor over the NSA revelations is much bigger than in the U.S. Why do Germans fear Big Brother so much?
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UN to raise new spy claims with US
German magazine Der Spiegel reported that US intelligence listened in to UN video conferences from mid-2012.
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The NSA has its own team of elite hackers
According to a profile by Matthew M. Aid for Foreign Policy, it’s a highly secret but incredibly important NSA program that collects intelligence about foreign targets by hacking into their computers, stealing data, and monitoring communications.
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How the NSA spent $10.8 billion this year
According to the leaked "black budget," the NSA spent $10.8 billion this year. Here's how it breaks down.
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ARGUS-IS The world's highest resolution camera
The ARGUS-IS (Autonomous Real-Time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance Imaging System) can stream up to a million terabytes of data and record 5,000 hours of HD footage per day. It can do this by the 1.8 gigapixel camera and 368 different sensors all housed in the ARGUS-IS. From more than 17,000 feet in the air, it can see an object as small as six inches, tracking people and vehicles across an entire city. .
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New Snowden Leak Reports 'Groundbreaking' NSA Crypto-Cracking
The latest published leak from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden lays bare classified details of the U.S. government’s $52.6 billion intelligence budget, and makes the first reference in any of the Snowden documents to a “groundbreaking” U.S. encryption-breaking effort targeted squarely at internet traffic.
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DNA test verified bin Laden's ID
The Washington Post reported on Thursday that classified intelligence budget files provided by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden state that a forensic intelligence lab run by the Defense Intelligence Agency performed the DNA testing.
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In 2013, the CIA will receive the most funding out of any intelligence agency
The U.S. government has majorly increased spending on surveillance programs, surpassing the levels seen during the Cold War. The CIA, which has been criticized in the years following 9/11, however, seems to be taking home the most of thismoney.
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