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Congress cannot be taken seriously on cybersecurity
None of the members of the Senate’s Intelligence Committee have encrypted websites nor use secure emails. So how can we trust them with our privacy? By Trevor Timm
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TSA Trained Disney, SeaWorld to SPOT Terrorists
The Transportation Security Administration's embattled $900 million behavior detection program, called Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques, or SPOT, is not just used at airports. It's also used at theme parks.
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Gyrocopter pilot frustrated message isn't getting through
The letter carrier who caused a full-scale security review in Washington when he violated national airspace by landing his gyrocopter on Capitol Hill expressed frustration Sunday that his message wasn't getting through. Doug Hughes had hoped to raise awareness about the influence of big money in politics by deliberately breaking the law to deliver 535 letters, one for each member of Congress.
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NSA and FBI fight to retain spy powers as surveillance law nears expiration
With about 45 days remaining before a major post-9/11 surveillance authorization expires, representatives of the National Security Agency and the FBI are taking to Capitol Hill to convince legislators to preserve their sweeping spy powers. That effort effectively re-inaugurates a surveillance debate in Congress that has spent much of 2015 behind closed doors. Within days, congressional sources tell the Guardian, the premiere NSA reform bill of the last Congress, known as...
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A Singular Conviction Amid the Debate on Torture and Terrorism
The story of the first and only CIA contractor to be convicted in a torture-related case after an interrogation. [Autoplay]
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Dust-up over new FOIA exemption in cybersecurity bill
Cybersecurity legislation advancing in Congress could create the first brand-new exemption to the Freedom of Information Act in nearly half a century—a prospect that alarms transparency advocates and some lawmakers...
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Can the internet be saved without harming democracy?
A new report wants to foster a digital age underpinned by human rights and calls for greater transparency from global giants. But will we ever trust the internet?
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Targeted Killing: The New Questions
Providing a glimpse of the Obama administration’s internal debate about a possible targeted killing of a US citizen, a Brooklyn terrorism case points to the many questions about the program that remain unanswered. By David Cole
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The FBI Keeps Demanding Impossible Solutions to Its Encryption Problem
It has now been six months since FBI Director James Comey said that “encryption threatens to lead all of us to a very dark place.” Since then, the FBI, Department of Justice, President Obama, and NSA have all taken potshots at encryption, each of them suggesting that the risk of criminals using the technology to hide from law enforcement outweighs the benefits of ordinary people wanting to keep their data and communications private...
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How C-51 will undermine Canada’s business climate: An open letter from 60 Canadian business leaders
We are already concerned about the negative impact the activities of CSE and CSIS, including reports of spying on our trading partners, have had on Canada’s reputation.
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GOP infighting threatens NSA bill
Republicans are in a state of disarray on surveillance reform with Congress barreling toward a May 31 deadline to extend or curtail some of the National Security Agency’s key powers. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr want to reauthorize the bulk collection of phone records — the most...
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US Congress to vote on ‘cybersecurity’ bills that are basically surveillance bills in disguise
Congress is expected to vote on two 'cybersecurity' bills sometime in the next week that are essentially surveillance bills in disguise. Trevor Timm writes in this editorial, cross-posted on the Freedom of the Press blog, about how they affect journalists and whistleblowers.
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White House and Department of Homeland Security Want a Way Around Encryption
The secretary for homeland security and the president’s cybersecurity advisor echo the NSA and FBI’s concerns about encryption.
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How the David Petraeus Prosecution Backfired
The former director of the CIA is getting off easy after leaking classified material to his mistress. Other leakers aren’t so lucky.
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Generation Snowden: On Why Surveillance Reform Is Inevitable
Just before dawn April 6, the artists crept under cover of darkness into Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park and installed the 100-pound bust atop a Revolutionary War memorial. ... By 3 p.m. the New York Parks Department and police had taken the bust down. But the next morning, a different group of artists cast a holographic image of Snowden where the bust had stood.
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Far from tolls, New York gathers location data through E-ZPass
Location data is collected from E-ZPass users in New York far away from toll booths, according to documents obtained by the New York Civil Liberties Union.
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Stage not yet set for more Guantánamo detainee releases
None of the mechanisms are yet in place to move out 10 detainees from the U.S. detention center in southeast Cuba in June, sources say, despite a flurry of recent reports from inside the Pentagon.
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Senate’s NSA skirmish stalling cyber bill
A debate over the Patriot Act is part of a legislative logjam.
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Spying Close to Home: German Intelligence Under Fire for NSA Cooperation
US intelligence spent years spying on European targets from a secretive base. Now, it seems that German intelligence was aware of the espionage -- and did nothing to stop it.
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NSA spied on EU politicians and companies with help from German intelligence
Germany's intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), has been helping the NSA spy on European politicians and companies for years, according to the German news magazine Der Spiegel. The NSA has been sending lists of "selectors"—identifying telephone numbers, e-mail and IP addresses—to the BND, which then provides related information that it holds in its surveillance databases.
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