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Global Surveillance: The Public Must Fight for its Right to Privacy
The British-American surveillance program Tempora marks a historic turning point. Unnoticed by the public, intelligence agencies have pursued total surveillance. Governments have deliberately concealed from the public the extent to which we are being watched.
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Greenwald: Snowden’s Files Are Out There if “Anything Happens” To Him
Snowden has shared encoded copies of all the documents he took so that they won’t disappear if he does, Glenn Greenwald tells Eli Lake.
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Whistleblowers will continue to leak state secrets, warns AP chief
President of global news agency says Obama administration cannot control flow of leaks in wake of Edward Snowden case. By Josh Halliday
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House Passes 2014 NDAA; NSA Surveillance Will Lead to Indefinite Detention
The House of Representatives has passed the National Defense Authorization Act for 2014. Surveillance will lead to more indefinite detentions. By Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
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WikiLeaks Volunteer Was a Paid Informant for the FBI
Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson served two masters, working for the secret-spilling website and simultaneously spilling its secrets to the U.S. government in exchange for $5,000.
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FBI sued over secretive facial recognition program
Soon the FBI will be done building a database containing the photographs, fingerprints and other biometric data for millions of Americans, but the agency has been far from forthcoming with the details. A new lawsuit filed this week aims to change that.
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Germany Compares US Bugging to 'Cold War'
The Obama administration faced a breakdown in confidence Sunday from key foreign allies who threatened investigations and sanctions against the U.S. over secret surveillance programs that reportedly installed covert listening devices in European Union offices.
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Meet PRISM’s little brother: Socmint
A secretive unit is developing tools for blanket surveillance of social media.
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State Department bureau spent $630,000 on Facebook 'likes'
State Department officials spent $630,000 to get more Facebook "likes," prompting employees to complain to a government watchdog that the bureau was "buying fans" in social media, the agency's inspector general says.
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Hidden microphone found at Ecuador's embassy in UK
Microphone was found last month inside office of Ecuadorean ambassador, in building where Julian Assange resides.
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Forget The NSA's Hi-Tech Snooping, The USPS Has Been Scanning Our Mail For Years
any people are upset — and with good reason — with the National Security Administration’s concerted and secretive efforts to obtain wireless and Internet data about a wide range of users, but what many people don’t know is that the U.S. Postal Service has been scanning the outside of every piece of mail it processes and making that information available to law enforcement without a warrant.
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About this Snowden situation...
It's actually kind of worrisome.
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Clapper apologizes for 'erroneous' answer on NSA
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has apologized for telling Congress earlier this year that the National Security Agency does not collect data on millions of Americans, a response he now says was "clearly erroneous."
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France also 'has vast data surveillance'
France's foreign intelligence service intercepts computer and telephone data on a vast scale, like the controversial US Prism programme, according to the French daily Le Monde. The data is stored on a supercomputer at the headquarters of the DGSE intelligence service, the paper says.
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From the Egyptian people
Nothing but love.
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Tech companies are cooperating with US intelligence agencies more than you think
The latest bold claims made in the US National Security Agency's leaked PowerPoint presentation on its PRISM internet surveillance program suggest that the agency is able to monitor communications in realtime, despite earlier avid denials by tech companies.
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Cop Bullying at 4th of July DUI Checkpoint
Officer Ross orders me to pull over and get out of my car, bullies me around, gets the drug sniffing K-9, lies about me having "Illegal Drugs" in the car, searches without consent, and tells me that it is ok to take away my freedom. All while not being detained. All this harassment because my window was not lowered enough to his preference. I broke no laws whatsoever.
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NSA recruitment drive goes horribly wrong
Staff from the National Security Agency got more than they bargained for when they attempted to recruit students to their organisation earlier this week.
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How innocent citizens become terror suspects
Intelligence agencies in the US and Britain collect enormous amounts of data to track down terrorists. But they don’t operate with great accuracy. Innocent citizens can also attract the attention of secret services.
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Snowden made the right call when he fled the U.S.
The man who leaked the Pentagon Papers says the NSA leaker could not speak out if he had stayed.
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