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NSA issues letter of ‘reassurance’ directing employees to share it with friends, family and co-workers
Think all these stories about the NSA's surveillance overreach and abuses are getting to the folks there? Kevin Gosztola at Firedoglake has the details on a letter the NSA has given to all of its employees and contractors, which it tells them they can print out to share with "loved ones" to reassure them that their NSA-working spouse/parent/child/best friend isn't, technically, evil.
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Dropbox joins the call for transparency, asks government to let it publish surveillance requests
Dropbox has thrown in its lot with Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and other companies looking for permission to publish information about secret national security requests. The company has filed an...
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Report says PRISM snooped on India's space, nuclear programs
NSA spooks risk alienating yet another US ally after new documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden apparently revealed extensive surveillance of Indian domestic politics as well as the country’s nuclear and space programs.
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Europe Really, Really Doesn't Trust the National Security Agency
A few days ago the European Parliament’s Office of Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs released a notably pointed briefing paper arguing for Europe to stop trusting American Internet services.
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NSA Apologist Says The NSA's Actions Are Fine Because 'Privacy Is Dead'
When we last discussed columnist Froma Harrop, she was acting as a surveillance state apologist. She took some of the usual paths (directing snark at "clueless" internet users, conjuring up the threat of terrorism) and some unusual ones (claiming those opposed to the surveillance state only did so because they "hate Obama"). All in all, it was the perfect storm of condescension and cluelessness that NSA apologists do all too well.
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Senators Announce Bill That Ends NSA Phone Records Collection
Sen. Ron Wyden said their legislation would show liberty and security "are not mutually exclusive."
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Documents show US spied on Martin Luther King
Newly declassified documents show NSA spied on the civil rights icon, boxer Muhammad Ali and other Vietnam war critics.
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Congress unveils bill to limit NSA's powers
A bipartisan group of senators introduces a bill that would prohibit the bulk collection of e-mail and phone records of US citizens.
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12 True Tales of Creepy NSA Cyberstalking
The NSA has released some details of 12 incidents in which analysts used their access to America's high-tech surveillance infrastructure to spy on girlfriends, boyfriends, and random people they met in social settings. It's a fascinating look at what happens when the impulse that drives average netizens to look up long-ago ex-lovers on Facebook is mated with the power to fire up a wiretap with a few keystrokes.
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NSA employee spied on nine women for six years without detection
A National Security Agency employee was able to secretly intercept the phone calls of nine foreign women for six years without ever being detected by his managers, the agency's internal watchdog has revealed.
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N.S.A. Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens
WASHINGTON — Since 2010, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans’ social connections that can identify their associates, their locations at certain times, their traveling companions and other personal information, according to newly disclosed documents and interviews with officials.
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NSA maps some Americans' social connections, says report
National Security Agency dips into its database of phone and e-mail info to create complex "social graphs" for foreign intelligence purposes, says a report. Some American citizens get swept up in the effort.
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John McAfee's $100 D-Central aims to outsmart the NSA
The McAfee founder says the gadget will be able to create decentralized networks that won't be accessible by governments.
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48 Ways a Government Shutdown Will Screw You Over
Who is affected when the government doesn't show up for work? Poor people, people with immune systems…basically everyone.
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Ex-Microsoft privacy adviser: I don't trust company after NSA revelations
Caspar Bowden says he was unaware of Prism data-sharing program when he worked at software firm
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Snowden Is A Finalist For European Human Rights Award
Edward Snowden, the former NSA contract worker who leaked documents detailing America's secret and broad surveillance activities, is on the short list of nominees for Europe's Sakharov Prize, which recognizes those who fight for human rights.
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Edward Snowden To Reveal NSA's 'Central Role In The US Assassination Program'
Over the weekend, investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill told an audience in Brazil that he and Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald are working on a project involving "how the National Security Agency plays a significant, central role in the U.S. assassination program."
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Lavabit was under FBI pressure to decrypt Snowden connections, court reveals
When Lavabit shut down in the wake of Edward Snowden's leaks, it left a big question unanswered: just what did the US government want that was supposedly so egregious? Thanks to newly unsealed court documents obtained by Wired, we now know much more of the story.
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The NSA is Making Us All Less Safe
Cory’s right, of course. And that’s why the recent New York Times story on the NSA’s systematic effort to weaken and sabotage commercially available encryption used by individuals and businesses around the world is so important—and not just to people who care about political organizing, journalists or whistleblowers.
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Can we trust the spying state?
How worried should we be by the state's capability to spy on us? Top secret documents, leaked by former American intelligence analyst Edward Snowden, have revealed the huge capacity of Britain and America's intelligence agencies - GCHQ and the NSA - to capture communications.
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