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NSA steps up digital image harvesting to feed its facial recognition program
The National Security Agency is through its global surveillance program increasingly gathering electronic images for its facial-recognition programs, according to documents obtained by The New York Times.
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Edward Snowden, the World's "Most Wanted Criminal"
In the past several months, we have been provided with instructive lessons on the nature of state power and the forces that drive state policy. And on a closely related matter: the subtle, differentiated concept of transparency.
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Teen Confronts Nancy Pelosi on NSA
16-year-old Andrew Demeter of Cleveland, Ohio does not yet have his driver’s license, but he has managed to confront arguably the most influential politician in the nation: Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi.
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No worries: NSA chief says facial recognition program is totally legal
The new head of the National Security Agency said Tuesday that the agency's newly revealed facial recognition program is legal. “We do not do this in some unilateral basis against US citizens,” Admiral Michael S. Rogers said at the Bloomberg Government cybersecurity conference in Washington, DC. “We have very specific restrictions when it comes to US persons.”
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There's A Huge New Snowden Leak - And No One Knows Where It Came From
On Tuesday, news site The Register published a story containing explosive “above top secret” information about Britain’s surveillance programs including details of a “clandestine British base tapping undersea cables in the Middle East.”
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In Pictures, Remembering the Tiananmen Square Massacre
Twenty-five years ago on Wednesday, the Chinese government, acting under martial law, deployed 200,000 troops into Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
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Websites, privacy groups mount “Reset The Net” campaign against NSA spying
A coalition led by Reddit, Imgur, the ACLU, EFF and Amnesty International are participating in “Reset the Net,” an online protest that aims to make it harder for the NSA to conduct mass surveillance over the Internet.
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GCHQ's Beyond Top Secret Middle Eastern Internet Spy Base
Above-top-secret details of Britain’s covert surveillance programme - including the location of a clandestine British base tapping undersea cables in the Middle East - have so far remained secret, despite being leaked by fugitive NSA sysadmin Edward Snowden. Government pressure has meant that some media organisations, despite being in possession of these facts, have declined to reveal them.
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Anti-NSA #ResetTheNet campaign kicks off
Internet activists and rights groups have launched a massive online campaign against mass government surveillance, urging users and websites to use encryption. The campaign’s inspiration – NSA whistleblower Snowden – has called to join ResetTheNet.
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Meet the Press's Snowden Debate: Traitor or Criminal?
The main debate about Snowden boiled down to one side saying he's a traitor and the other side saying he should come home and do prison time, perhaps as a lesson to children.
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One year of NSA leaks: where are we now?
Exactly one year ago today, The Guardian published a four-page court order that would become one of the year's biggest news stories. Issued by the low-profile Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, it required Verizon Business Network Services to hand over phone metadata, including numbers dialed and the time and duration of calls.
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65 Things We Know About NSA Surveillance We Didn’t Know a Year Ago
It's been one year since the Guardian first published the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order, leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, that demonstrated that the NSA was conducting dragnet surveillance on millions of innocent people. Since then, the onslaught of disturbing revelations, from disclosures, admissions from government officials, Freedom of Information Act requests, and lawsuits, has been nonstop.
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One year after Snowden, phone giants' privacy policies are laughable at best
The U.S. government relies on intelligence from an unknown number of U.S. telecoms for its mass surveillance programs. What's the state of phone privacy in the post-NSA world?
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Stephen Fry attacks 'squalid' coalition for inaction on Snowden revelations
Broadcaster denounces government response in speech at conference marking first anniversary of publication of NSA files
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Cory Doctorow: Those who have nothing to hide have a duty to protect the privacy of those who do
Influential digital rights activist Cory Doctorw, founder of Boing-Boing, is speaking at the Don't Spy On Us conference in London today. Speaking to me earlier, he argued that the best way to combat mass-surveillance is by raising the cost by using encryption.
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How the NSA can 'turn on' your cell phone remotely
Even if you power off your cell phone, the U.S. government can turn it back on. That's what ex-spy Edward Snowden revealed in last week's interview with NBC's Brian Williams. It sounds like sorcery. Can someone truly bring your phone back to life without touching it?
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A Surveillance State Beyond Imagination Is Being Created in One of the World's Freest Countries
A White House lawyer seems determined to demolish our civil liberties.
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Ex-KGB Major: The Russians Tricked Snowden Into Going To Moscow
Snowden's Russia visa for temporary asylum, which can be extended indefinitely. Ex-KGB Major Boris Karpichko told Nigel Nelson of The Mirror that spies from Russia’s SVR intelligence service, posing as diplomats in Hong Kong, convinced Snowden to fly to Moscow last June.
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Cyberbullying law would let police ‘remotely hack into computers, mobile devices, or cars’
Experts say police would be able to install viruses, or malware, into the electronics of anyone suspected of a crime, after gaining judicial approval.
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Ars tests Internet surveillance—by spying on an NPR reporter
A week spent playing NSA reveals just how much data we leak online.
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