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Russia Won't Extradite Snowden to US
A spokesman for President Vladimir Putin says Russia has not budged from its refusal to extradite U.S. leaker Edward Snowden, who has applied for asylum. Snowden, who is believed to have been staying at the Moscow airport transit zone since June 23, applied for temporary asylum in Russia...
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TSA Is Making Airport Valets Search Your Trunk
And legal experts say the searches may violate your Fourth Amendment rights.
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UK Porn Filter Will Censor Other Content Too, ISPs Reveal
This week prime minister David Cameron announced further details of his crusade to have adult material censored in the UK. It's a controversial topic for a number of reasons, with even those unconcerned about losing access to porn wondering what will be censored next. Apparently the government have already thought that through. According to ISPs speaking with the Open Rights Group, the filter will target a range of other content too.
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Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords
Secret demands mark escalation in Internet surveillance by the federal government through gaining access to user passwords, which are typically stored in encrypted form.
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Could the Government Get a Search Warrant for Your Thoughts?
Why remain silent if they can just read your mind?
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Edward Snowden's not the story. The fate of the internet is.
The press has lost the plot over the Snowden revelations. The fact is that the net is finished as a global network, and that US firms' cloud services cannot be trusted, writes John Naughton.
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Holder's Letter to Moscow: We Won't Torture or Kill Snowden
What is striking, reading Holder’s letter, is how non-obvious his very obvious points about torture and legal rights have become.
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Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be “Abolished”
Last week, Dr. Joseph Bonneau learned that he had won the NSA's first annual "Science of Security (SoS) Competition." And how did he respond to being honored by the NSA? By expressing his revulsion at what the NSA has become.
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Who Are We at War With? That’s Classified...
President Obama has repeatedly said the U.S. is targeting Al Qaeda and “associated forces.” But the government won’t say who those forces are.
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Momentum Builds Against N.S.A. Surveillance
WASHINGTON — The movement to crack down on government surveillance started with an odd couple from Michigan, Representatives Justin Amash, a young libertarian Republican known even to his friends as “chief wing nut,” and John Conyers Jr., an elder of the liberal left in his 25th House term.
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Edward Snowden's dad: 'This story is far from done'
More than a month after Edward Snowden’s leaks became public, his dad, Lon Snowden, spoke about his son and the country's perception of him with TODAY’s Matt Lauer. “I am extremely disappointed and angry,” he told Lauer Friday. "I’ve watched closely the 36 members on the two intelligence committees and the American people don’t know the whole truth. The truth is coming.”
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Which Citizens Are Under More Surveillance, U.S. Or European?
European leaders were outraged over revelations of NSA surveillance. But in many countries, wiretapping by law enforcement agencies is legal and privacy safeguards are weaker. Still, comparisons can be misleading.
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Manning Verdict May Topple Journalistic Paradigm
As Pfc. Bradley Manning's court martial came to a close Friday, the charge of 'aiding the enemy' has huge implications for journalism.
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Activists storm office of Congressman who voted for NSA spying
Six activists from the anti-surveillance group Restore the Fourth paid an unexpected visit to the office of a New York Congressman in protest of the vote which allowed the National Security Agency to continue collecting Americans' phone records without a warrant.
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NSA’s #XKeyscore program could read Facebook Chats And Private Messages
An NSA tool called DNI Presenter, used to read the content of stored emails, also enables an analyst using XKeyscore to read the content of Facebook chats or private messages. An analyst can monitor such Facebook chats by entering the Facebook user name and a date range into a simple search screen.
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Edward Snowden's father says FBI asked him to fly to Moscow
Lon Snowden says his son will be 'treated horribly' if he returns to US and in his place he would stay in Russia
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Snowden has left the Airport
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Fugitive former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden slipped quietly out of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport on Thursday after Russia granted him temporary asylum, ending more than
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If You Google for "Pressure Cooker", you might get a visit from the feds
They asked about me, where was I, where do I work, where do my parents live. Do you have any bombs, they asked. Do you own a pressure cooker? My husband said no, but we have a rice cooker. Can you make a bomb with that?
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Google 'Pressure Cookers' and 'Backpacks,' Get a Visit from the Cops
Michele was Googling pressure cookers. Her husband was looking at backpacks. So six men from a joint terrorism task force showed up at their house. How'd the government know what they were Googling?
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A 30 Year-Old Hacker Just Cursed At The Most Powerful Man In Global Surveillance
Hackers pulls a William Wallace on NSA director, then calls bullshit on him.
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