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PRISM-style surveillance is global, Julian Assange says
The internet is being transformed into a military-occupied space, the WikiLeaks founder says
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What 9 Former NSA Employees Think About Privacy, Secrecy, and Edward Snowden
Their opinions on the NSA controversy run the gamut.
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Facebook: U.S. gov't requested data on 18K-19K users in last half of 2012
Facebook has released more details about government requests for user data in the United States, including requests by the NSA.
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The Making Of A Mole
Homeland Security agent Jovana Deas was torn between a burgeoning career in federal law enforcement and a family with ties to a notorious Mexican drug cartel. Was her betrayal of the agency a failure of character or of a system she should have never been part of in the first place?
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Web companies begin releasing surveillance information after U.S. deal
Facebook and Microsoft have struck agreements with the U.S. government to release limited information about the number of surveillance requests they receive, a modest victory.
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The corporate costs of surveillance
The leaks about the government's spying program spell big trouble for companies like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft.
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Woz: This is not my America
Stopped by Spanish language tech journalists at an airport, the Apple co-founder says that after the NSA revelations, he questions his own government and wonders whether it's behaving like a king.
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DuckDuckGo’s best week ever: 2.54M direct searches Friday after PRISM news breaks
DuckDuckGo finished its best week ever with 2.54 million direct searches on Friday. That's a 37 percent increase over the number of direct searches made the previous Friday on the Paoli-based search engine that promises not to track you.
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Julian Assange: Google's just an arm of US government
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has claimed that Google is tied up in a conspiracy stretching up to the very highest levels of American government.
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3 Former NSA Employees Praise Edward Snowden, Corroborate Key Claims
The men, all whistleblowers, say he succeeded where they failed.
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No, NSA Spying Did NOT Prevent a Terror Attack on Wall Street
In response to the revelation that the NSA has been illegally spying on all Americans for more than a decade, NSA chief General Keith Alexander claimed that the spying prevented a terrorist attack on Wall Street and the New York subway. There’s only one problem: the claim is completely false.
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NSA surveillance is an attack on American citizens, says Noam Chomsky
Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy – their own population, says critic
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FBI director admits domestic use of drones for surveillance
The FBI uses drones for domestic surveillance purposes, the head of the agency told Congress early Wednesday.
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FBI uses surveillance drones in US, and admits it
The FBI has used drones for surveillance in limited cases over US soil, FBI Director Robert Mueller has told a US Senate committee.
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Leaked documents reveal NSA can keep 'inadvertently acquired' data on American citizens for years
Documents obtained by the Guardian have revealed for the first time the top secret procedures detailing how the US National Security Agency can gather and use surveillance data.
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Facebook's Former Security Chief Now Works for the NSA
About a year after Facebook reportedly joined PRISM, Max Kelly, the social network's chief security officer left for a job at the National Security Agency, either a curious career move or one that makes complete sense.
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If The Government Can Access Our Facebook Data, What Happens When We Have Computers On Our Faces?
Is wearable computing the future or a trend whose bubble is about to burst? From fitness trackers to smartwatches to computers you wear on your face, this emerging market, enabled by the increasing miniaturization of hardware components and lightweight materials, has increasingly been piquing the interest of investors and early adopters alike.
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Introducing the NSA-Proof Font
Download Sang Mun's crypto-font, and the NSA won't be able to read your emails.
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The United States Seized Confidential Mail Records Of European Parliament
I can’t say I’m surprised – but we’ve got the United States and its security bureaucrats digging through our e-mail in the European Parliament. Mashable reveals that the United States has demanded information from Google about the communications of two Wikileaks activists. One of them is the Icelander Smári McCarthy (pictured).
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Why Monopolies Make Government Spying Easier
If you’d like less government surveillance, the alternative answer to political control is more competition in the industries that handle and store information.
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