Mozilla's Lightbeam tool will expose who is looking over your shoulder on the web
• independent.co.ukJust who is looking over your shoulder when you browse the Internet?
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Snowden disputes Feinstein claim that NSA spying isn't 'surveillance'
• thehill.comNational Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on Thursday disputed Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-Calif.) claim that the government's phone record collection program is not "surveillance."
Mozilla's Lightbeam tool will expose who is looking over your shoulder on the web
• The IndependentJust who is looking over your shoulder when you browse the Internet? Tomorrow, web users will be given a new tool to shine a light on the commercial organizations which track your every movement online.
Snowden's Latest: NSA Spied on 35 World Leaders
• slate.comLooks like President Obama may have a few more fence-mending international phone calls in his future, via the Guardian:
Snowden rebuts Feinstein’s statement that NSA spying “is not surveillance”
• ars technicaFormer National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden went into a relatively long silent period after being charged with espionage and fleeing to Russia. But it seems that he is becoming more comfortable about speaking out.
US official handed over 35 foreign leaders’ phone numbers to NSA
• The GuardianThe National Security Agency monitored the phone conversations of 35 world leaders after being given the numbers by an official in another US agency, according to a classified document provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Le Monde: France in NSA's Crosshairs
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Court Rules Probable-Cause Warrant Required for GPS Trackers
• http://www.wired.com, By Kim ZetterAn appellate court has finally supplied an answer to an open question left dangling by the Supreme Court in 2012: Do law enforcement agencies need a probable-cause warrant to affix a GPS tracker to a target’s vehicle?
Is the U.S. confirming it spied on Germany's chancellor?
• Yahoo! News blogReimagine the old George Washington as a lad, is confronted with the famously hatcheted cherry tree and imagine that Washington’s answer had been, “I am not currently chopping down and will not chop down that cherry tree.” You see the problem
N.S.A. Plan to Log Calls Is Renewed by Court
• New York TimesThe Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court reauthorized the once-secret National Security Agency program that keeps records of every American’s phone calls. They also sought to plug a hole in a similar ruling made public last month.
France, Mexico demand answers over US spying
• AFPThe US National Security Agency (NSA) secretly monitored tens of millions of phone calls in France and hacked into former Mexican President Felipe Calderon's email account.
NSA leaks: Years of spying on Mexico govt gave US investment benefits
• RT.comUS electronic surveillance in Mexico reportedly targeted top officials, including both current and previous presidents.
Privacy Fears Grow as Cities Increase Surveillance
• New York TimesFederal grants of $7 million awarded to this city were meant largely to help thwart terror attacks at its bustling port. But instead, the money is going to a police initiative to collect and analyze reams of surveillance data from around town
Contrary to public claims, Apple can read your iMessages
• ars technica"Apple's claim that they can't read end-to-end encrypted iMessage[s] is definitely not true," researchers from QuarksLab wrote in a white paper summarizing their findings. "As everyone suspected: yes they can!"
Put These Quarter-Sized GPS Trackers On Everything
• popsci.comThey'll go on phones, bicycles, teenagers—anything!
Stop Watching Us: Rally Against NSA Mass Surveillance - Washington, DC Oct 26th, 2013
• Facebook.ComOn October 26th, the 12th anniversary of the PATRIOT Act, join us for a Rally Against Mass Surveillance. We'll have a great lineup of musicians and speakers that we'll be announcing soon. Please make sure to RSVP here: https://rally.stopwatching.us/
Freedom Caucus 24 : Episode 2 | March Against Drones (Outright Arizona Podcast)
• Outright Arizona Podcast
Fleecing the Taxpayer in the Age of Petty Tyrannies
• http://www.lewrockwell.com, By John W. WhiteheadWe labor today under the weight of countless tyrannies, large and small, carried out in the name of the national good by an elite class of government officials who are largely insulated from the ill effects of their actions.
Put These Quarter-Sized GPS Trackers On Everything
• popsci.comThey'll go on phones, bicycles, teenagers—anything!
We Don't Need More 'Spin' About NSA's Unconstitutional Domestic Snooping, We Need It
Ivan Elandlexander told the Times that, "Given where we are and all the issues that are on the table, I do feel it's important to have a public, transparent discussion" and that "they [the American people] need to understand the truth about what is going on."
Gov’t moves to keep NSA surveillance lawsuit away from Supreme Court
• ars technicaNot long after widespread NSA phone surveillance was revealed the Electronic Privacy Information Center tried a bold and novel legal tactic: it appealed straight to the Supreme Court, asking for an immediate shutdown of the program.
Secret court says it is no rubber stamp; work led to changes in U.S. spying requests
• Washington PostA secret surveillance court that has been criticized for approving the vast majority of the government’s applications to spy on suspected terrorists and other targets reported the government had revamped roughly one-fourth of its requests
NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally
• Washington PostThe NSA is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans. The collection program intercepts e-mail address books and “buddy lists”
Virginia: Cops Spied On Motorists At Political Rallies
• The NewspaperThe Virginia State Police used cameras to track motorists attending political events in 2008. Automated license plate readers are used by law enforcement agencies throughout the country, ostensibly to fight crime by finding stolen cars.
Ninth Circuit OKs Feds Use of Cellphones as Roving Bugs
• New AmericanAssuming, as many a savvy American would, that the federal government is liable to eventually want to monitor and record your personal electronic communication, is there not an expectation that when the cellphone is off the surveillance is suspended?
Court: NSA can continue sweeping phone data collection (Video)
• The HillThe Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has granted the National Security Agency (NSA) permission to continue its collection of records on all U.S. phone calls.
Laptops Snowden took to Hong Kong, Russia were a 'diversion'
• ReutersThe classified documents that Snowden had downloaded from the National Security Agency were stored on smaller devices, such as hard drives and thumb drives, and have not been turned over to the Russian or Chinese, said Ray McGovern
The Lavabit Brief: Breadth-Taking
• Simple JusticeTo make matters worse (for Levison), whose company existed to provide “secure” communications from the government, the order forbid him from informing his other customers of the government’s demands, and their communications would be revealed.
New York Just Subpoenaed Airbnb to Hand Over Its User Data
• .The city is fighting the startup for breaking local laws against operating an illegal hotel out of your home. New York Attorney General Schneiderman just subpoenaed the data of all New Yorkers who've listed their apartment on the site,
Amid NSA Outrage, Big Tech Companies Plan to Track You Even More Aggressively
• http://www.wired.com, By Ryan TateThanks to former NSA man Edward Snowden, we now know a fair amount about the NSA’s ability to collect data about what people do online, and it’s all rather disturbing.
