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Clapper: We should have disclosed NSA bulk data collection in 2001
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has admitted that the National Security Agency should have disclosed more about the bulk data collection that it has engaged in for more than a decade. He made the surprising statements in an interview with The Daily Beast.
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Web warriors cause big bother for Big Brother
While working for the Wall Street Journal, Emily Parker met bloggers who fought for freedom - and was amazed by their courage. She has written a book based on her experiences of nearly a decade covering these netizens in Beijing, Havana and Moscow.
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Exclusive: Islamist Terror Enclave Discovered in Texas
FBI documents obtained by Clarion confirm the find and show the U.S. government’s concern about its links to terrorism.
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Bring on the Drones (Infographic)
Drones are invading our skies, they're in the news, and if some retailers get their way, they'll soon be on our front steps.
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Watching America : » NSA Affair: Constitutional Court President Had Strong Words for the US
By EditorialTranslated By Amy Baker 15 February 2014Edited by Gillian Palmer
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"As of April 2013, the US spy agency had 117,675 active surveillance targets. Was I perhaps now one of them?"
Was it the NSA? GCHQ? A Russian hacker? Who was secretly reading his book on Snowden while he wrote it, wonders Luke Harding
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New Snowden doc reveals how GCHQ/NSA use web to 'Manipulate, Deceive And Destroy Reputations'
For years, people have said that the purpose of groups like the NSA and GCHQ were merely "signals intelligence," which were about understanding and decoding signals, not about taking any sort of offensive standpoint. However, as the Snowden docs have repeatedly revealed, the mandate of these organizations has long been much more offensively based, and they seem to have little problem with using questionable tactics to destroy people's lives.
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Citizenship: Sold to the highest bidder!
Got an extra $5 million? Then you can become a citizen of the country of your choice.
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Our game consoles are likely spying on us, and this is business as usual
I think there may be a surveillance device on my car,” my mother-in-law said. She had visited to make dinner for the kids, something she does once a week or so. I dutifully went outside, took a look at the offending piece of technology, and after a few quick searches online I found out she was right. But at least it was a surveillance device that she had paid for.
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This machine kills trolls
At midnight on February 13th, 2014, a Wikipedia user named Lightningawesome added to the list of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic characters a lengthy biography of Lightning Dash, a capricious,...
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Canadian government is about to pass a law providing immunity to telecoms that hand over our sensitive info.
Thousands of Canadians are speaking out against Peter MacKay's new online spying legislation. Bill C-13 would give a range of authorities access to your private information without a warrant. Join the campaign to stop government spying and to keep your online activities private...
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Julian Assange at SXSW: All Talk but Nothing to Say
AUSTIN, Texas — Embattled WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange made a rare onstage appearance at SXSWi on Sunday via Skype in a wide-ranging conversation about the NSA and WikiLeaks...
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Our Drone Future
In the near future, cities use semi-autonomous drones for urban security. Human officers monitor drone feeds remotely, and data reports are displayed with a detailed HUD and communicated via a simulated human voice (designed to mitigate discomfort with sentient drone technology). While the drones operate independently, they are "guided" by the human monitors, who can suggest alternate mission plans and ask questions.
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You Know Who Else Collected Metadata? The Stasi
The East German secret police, known as the Stasi, were an infamously intrusive secret police force. They amassed dossiers on about one quarter of the population of the country during...
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Edward Snowden: ‘They’re setting fire to the future of the Internet’
Edward Snowden on Monday advocated for better online security measures, speaking via Google Hangout at the South By Southwest Interactive conference in Austin. Snowden spoke as part of an an American Civil Liberties Union panel, along with analysts Chris Soghoian and Ben Wizner. While the video and audio feed was choppy, Snowden’s message was clear.
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CIA 'searched US Senate computers'
The head of the US Senate intelligence committee has publicly accused the CIA of improperly accessing computers used by congressional staff.
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Why You Should Embrace Surveillance, Not Fight It
The internet is a tracking and monitoring machine. We will ceaselessly self-track and be tracked. We’re expanding the data sphere to sci-fi levels and there’s no stopping it because too many of the benefits we covet derive from it. Our central choice now is whether this surveillance is a secret, one-way panopticon -- or a mutual, transparent kind of 'coveillance' that involves watching the watchers...
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NSA pretended to be Facebook to infect millions of computers
As part of its efforts to install malware on “millions” of computers worldwide, the National Security Agency impersonated Facebook to trick targets into downloading malicious code. “In some cases the NSA has masqueraded as a fake Facebook server, using the social media site as a launching pad to infect a target’s computer and exfiltrate files from a hard drive,” reports The Intercept in its latest expose based on top-secret documents obtained by Edward Snowden.
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The White House Has Been Covering Up the Presidency's Role in Torture for Years
The Obama administration has gone to extraordinary lengths to keep a short phrase describing President Bush's authorization of the torture program secret.
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Mark Zuckerberg: I Called Obama Over NSA Spying
In a post, Facebook's founder said he contacted the president to express his frustration at the government's mass surveillance program. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a post to the social network Thursday that he called President Obama in exasperation at the threat he believes mass surveillance poses to the future of the Internet.
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