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While Ruling NSA Program Illegal, Appeals Court Suggests Path Forward
A recent federal appeals court ruling on the NSA's domestic surveillance program seems to be sending the political branches constitutional messages about how to proceed next.
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Germany gives huge amount of phone, text data to U.S.
Germany's BND intelligence agency sends mammoth amounts of phone and text data to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) each month, Die Zeit Online reported, highlighting the scale of spying
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Many of the NSA's Loudest Defenders Have Financial Ties to NSA Contractors
With the debate over NSA telephone surveillance at a critical juncture, it's worth examining how money flows from the spy agency to contractors and eventually to some of the NSA's loudest defenders.
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Many of the NSA’s Loudest Defenders Have Financial Ties to NSA Contractors
With the debate over NSA telephone surveillance at a critical juncture, it’s worth examining how money flows from the spy agency to contractors and eventually to some of the NSA’s loudest defenders.
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House passes NSA reform bill
The House passed a bill Wednesday that would end a controversial National Security Agency program that collects information on millions of American telephone calls, adding new momentum to the surveillance reform push in Congress. The passage of the USA Freedom Act, by an overwhelming vote of 338 to 88, kicks the debate to the Senate, where lawmakers...
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The Section 215 Wrecking Ball
Congress has two weeks to decide whether to allow a key part of the Patriot Act to expire. By Amy Davidson.
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FBI now claims its stingray NDA means the opposite of what it says
In new statement sent to Ars, FBI says local cops can talk about stingrays.
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Critics blast NSA phone records bill as ‘fake reform’
A lopsided vote in the U.S. House of Representatives this week to rein in the National Security Agency's domestic telephone records dragnet won muted praise, with many supporters calling on Congress to take stronger action.
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I Went to Prison After Exposing US Torture. Why Weren’t the Perpetrators Charged?
By John Kiriakou
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Richland's $4.1 million police station funded by civil forfeiture
The Mississippi city of Richland has a new $4.1 million police station, a top-level training center and a fleet of black-and-white Dodge Charger police cars. All of it was paid for through civil forfeitures of property and cash seized during traffic stops of what police say were suspected drug runners on Interstate 20.
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South Korea's New Law Mandates Installation Of Government-Approved Spyware On Teens' Smartphones
Considering the extent of its (most web-related) censorship efforts, South Korea must consider itself fortunate to be next-door neighbors with North Korea. Any time another censorship effort arrives, all the government has to say is, "Hey, at least we're not as bad as…" while pointing its index fingers in an upward/roughly northerly direction. It blocks sites and web pages with gusto, subverting its own technological superiority by acting as a Puritanical parental figure.
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How To Hide Your House From Google Maps
Written by: Daniel Jennings
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Voters Don't Like Being Spied On: Will 2016 Candidates Listen?
A new poll commissioned by the ACLU shows voters of all stripes would like to see changes made to section 215 of the Patriot Act.
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Pretty Much Anyone With Any Understanding of Crypto Tells President Obama That Backdooring Crypto Is Monumentally Stupid
Nearly 150 tech companies (including us via the Copia Institute), non-profits and computer security experts have all teamed up to send a letter to President Obama telling him to stop these stupid ideas about backdooring encryption...
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How the CIA tortured its detainees
The CIA, and the Senate intelligence committee, would rather avoid the word “torture,” preferring euphemisms like “enhanced interrogation techniques” and “rendition, detention and interrogation program”. Many of the techniques employed by the CIA after capturing high-value targets have been documented in CIA memos released by the Obama administration, and in numerous leaks, including a report written by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
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Obama Admin: NSA Spying Will Begin Shutting Down This Week
The Patriot Act provisions that have allowed the National Security Agency to vacuum up Americans' phone records officially expire on June 1. But the Obama administration says the NSA must begin preparing to end its bulk-telephone-spying program as soon as Friday.
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Why You Never Saw The CIA’s Interrogation Tapes
When graphic photographs of American soldiers abusing detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq surfaced in 2004, they sparked international outrage — and prompted new scrutiny of how the U.S. treats its prisoners. Even though Abu Ghraib itself wasn’t a CIA-run facility, the agency was worried about the scandal’s ramifications.
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The Last Defenders of the NSA
As more information emerges about the bulk collection of phone records, the remaining arguments in its favor fall one by one. By Conor Friedersdorf.
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Should the government be allowed to spy on you?
Congress is deciding this week. Ask your lawmakers to take a stand!
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How 1990s encryption backdoors put today's Internet in jeopardy
What happens when the government deliberately weakens and attacks encryption? In the midst of a renewed debate on American encryption laws, research released on Tuesday reveals two new cyberattacks collectively known as Logjam that affect tens of thousands of the most popular websites. It also shows how Bill Clinton-era encryption laws and George W. Bush-era NSA attacks on encryption have made the Web less secure today...
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