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DuckDuckGo on CNBC: We’ve grown 600% since NSA surveillance news broke
The privacy-minded search engine is now doing three billion searches a year.
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China and Russia Almost Definitely Have the Snowden Docs
I believe that both China and Russia had access to all the files that Snowden took well before Snowden took them. By Bruce Schneier.
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Possible Pentagon destruction of evidence in NSA leak case probed
The Justice Department acknowledges the probes in a letter last week to a federal magistrate judge who recently received the allegations from lawyers for former NSA senior official Thomas Drake.
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CIA torture appears to have broken spy agency rule on human experimentation
Watchdogs shocked at ‘disconnect’ between doctors who oversaw interrogation and guidelines that gave CIA director power over medical ethics
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Privacy groups quit US talks on facial recognition tech
Nine US privacy groups have dropped out of talks on voluntary standards for facial recognition technology, after failing to agree on a code on how it could be deployed...
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The State Department’s Dangerous New Proposal to Regulate Gun Enthusiasts’ Internet Speech
Over the last couple of decades, Edmund Burke’s plucky “little platoons” have found a thousand homes in the quiet recesses of the Internet. Day in and day out, online forums buzz and crackle with the untrammeled energy of volunteers, hobbyists, collaborators, dilettantes, antiquarians, and enthusiastic abecedarians of all stripes. Perhaps you are struggling with a broken garage door? Perhaps your computer is crashing frequently?
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Encryption “would not have helped” at OPM, says DHS official
Attackers had valid user credentials and run of network, bypassing security.
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Congress’ fix for cyberattacks [CISA] may hand the government more of your data
“This isn't a cybersecurity bill—it's a surveillance bill.”
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21 Republicans Voted Against a Torture Ban
The opposition in the effort to make sure that American interrogators never inflict severe pain or mental anguish on prisoners again
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5 wild conspiracy theories that turned out to be true
Take off your tin-foil hats for a second, because sometimes an insane-sounding conspiracy theory actually turns out to be true. From the government making
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Officials: Chinese had access to U.S. security clearance data for one year
The long lag time means the system breacher had time to pull off a consequential cyberheist. By Ellen Nakashima.
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Google Reveals It Was Forced to Hand Over Journalist’s Data for WikiLeaks Grand Jury Investigation
Google released another legal disclosure notice related to the United States government’s ongoing grand jury investigation into WikiLeaks. It informed journalist and technologist Jacob Appelbaum, who previously worked with WikiLeaks, that Google was ordered to provide data from his account. By Kevin Gosztola.
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Churches are starting to use FACIAL RECOGNITION to keep tabs on attendance
The Big Brother-style spy software counts and sorts people as they come through the door
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Wikileaks has released 60,000 secret documents on Saudi's lavish spending
Tens of thousands of secret documents that give an insight into the workings of the Saudi Arabian state have been published by Wikileaks, and the nation's Foreign Ministry has responded by urging citizens not to share what they call 'fake' information. Wikileaks published the Saudi cables on Friday, and have already released over 60,000 documents. Further batches of thousands of documents will be released over the coming weeks.
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Pierre Omidyar’s corporate spying scandal buried for good as eBay sells Craigslist stake
It didn’t get much attention, but eBay just quietly unloaded its 28.4 percent stake in Craigslist, putting to rest one of the most sordid episodes in Silicon Valley...
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Controversial GCHQ Unit Engaged in Domestic Law Enforcement, Online Propaganda, Psychology Research - The Intercept
JTRIG’s use of behavioral science research is emphasized as critical to its operations. That includes detailed discussions of how to foster “obedience” and “conformity.”
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Popular Security Software Came Under Relentless NSA and GCHQ Attacks
To thwart and extract hacks from anti-virus software companies, the spy agencies reverse engineered software, intercepted email and spied on web traffic. Kaspersky Lab was a major target. The result was potentially a gold mine of exploits.
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DoJ's Gag Order On Reason Has Been Lifted — But The Real Story Is More Outrageous Than We Thought
"So, the truth is out — and it's more outrageous than you thought, even more outrageous than it appears at first glance."
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NSA Spied on French Presidents: WikiLeaks
The United States National Security Agency spied on French presidents Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande, WikiLeaks said in a press statement published on Tuesday.
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IRS employees can use ‘password’ as a password? No wonder we get hacked
Why should anyone trust what the US government says on cybersecurity when they can’t secure the systems they have full control over? By Trevor Timm.
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