Microsoft Calls Government Spying an ‘Advanced Persistent Threat’

12-06-2013 • David Gilbert, IBT

Microsoft announces it will encrypt all data all content travelling between data centres following revelations of persistent spying from governments.

NSA tracking 5 BILLION cellphone calls a day

12-04-2013 • Washington Post

The NSA is gathering 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world, according to documents enabling the agency to track the movements of individuals, and map their relationships in ways previously unimaginable.

Edward Snowden's Latest Leak Is A Real Doozy for Australia

12-04-2013 • businessinsider.com

Edward Snowden’s latest NSA leak is a doozy for Australians. In 2008, Australia’s surveillance agency, the Defence Signals Directorate (now known as the Australian Signals Directorate), offered to share the private information of Australian citizens

Rand Paul: Americans Trading Liberty for False Security

12-04-2013 • Breitbart

In the opening pages of Ray Bradbury’s famous novel Fahrenheit 451, protagonist Guy Montag asks: Wasn’t there a time when firemen used to put out fires? They laugh at him, rebuke him and say: Everybody knows firemen start fires.

The NSA's Porn-Surveillance Program: Not Safe for Democracy

12-03-2013 • http://www.theatlantic.com, Conor Friedersdorf

Its targets extend beyond suspected terrorists—and some rhetoric that the First Amendment would protect is singled out.

DHS Googling Travelers Before They Enter U.S.?

12-03-2013 • Prison Planet

Canadian woman denied entry over “mental illness”

Sex and the NSA

11-29-2013 • antiwar.com

Some really dirty laundry is aired

Letter Re: The Poor Man's UAV: First Person Video-Controlled RC Planes

11-29-2013 • survival blog

Hello James, While researching availability of a First Person Video controlled RC plane I have come across two viable contenders.

Glenn Greenwald "The Goal Of The U.S. Government Is To Eliminate ALL Privacy Globally!"

11-29-2013 • Daily Paul

Glenn Greenwald "The Goal Of The U.S. Government Is To Eliminate ALL Privacy Globally!"

Canada let NSA spy on G20 summit

11-29-2013 • The Guardian

Canada allowed the US National Security Agency (NSA) to conduct widespread surveillance during the 2010 Group of 20 summit in Toronto, according to a media report that cited documents from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

Microsoft, HURTING after NSA backdooring, vows to harden its own pipe

11-28-2013 • http://www.theregister.co, By Iain Thomson

Snooping on private messages 'breach of the 4th Amendment'

Call-Log App Aims to Reverse-Engineer NSA Surveillance

11-28-2013 • http://www.technologyreview.com, By Tom Simonite

Sharing your call data with researchers could help show what the NSA can deduce from the data it harvests.

The Other Feds-Snooping-On-Foreigners Scandal

11-27-2013 • by Radley Balko (Huffington Post)

HuffPost broke a big exclusive today with a story by Glenn Greenwald, Ryan Grim, and Ryan Gallagher about NSA monitoring the porn viewing habits of targets the agency has deemed to be radical. It's a great story, but it also provides an interestin

Stick to Old-School VHS:

11-27-2013 • http://www.dailypaul.com, LapHog

None of the targets were accused of being involved in terror plots, except against a sweaty palm and a clean keyboard.

N.S.A. May Have Hit Internet Companies at a Weak Spot

11-27-2013 • New York Times

People knowledgeable about Google and Yahoo’s infrastructure say they believe that government spies bypassed the big Internet companies and hit them at a weak spot — the fiber-optic cables that connect data centers around the world and are owned by c

The Cookie(-Less) Monster

11-27-2013 • http://www.webdesigndegreecenter.org

With an increased focus on privacy thanks to revelations of massive spying by the NSA, computer users are (or should be) increasingly concerned about their security online.

Oakland, California City Council votes to Approve Surveillance Center

11-26-2013 • The Liberty Beat

Concerned citizens chanted and protested inside city council expressing concern over the surveillance hub that will connect dozens of traffic and surveillance cameras to police and fire dispatch systems, Twitter feeds, crime maps, gunshot-detecting

NSA Fallout Spreads: Qualcomm Probed By Chinese Regulator In "Confidential" Investigation

11-26-2013 • Zero Hedge

The recent collapse in the forward guidance from Cisco and various other tech and telecom companies has been widely attributed to the world's - and mostly China's -

FBI Preparing To Roll Out Nationwide Facial Recognition System

11/26/2013 • http://godlikeproductions.com

From fighting terrorism to processing payments in the blink of an eye, facial recognition is set to change our ideas on privacy.

NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious software

11-25-2013 • nrc.nl

The American intelligence service - NSA - infected more than 50,000 computer networks worldwide with malicious software designed to steal sensitive information.

Google’s Role In Woodland Child Pornography Arrest Raises Privacy Concerns

11-24-2013 • CBS News

A child pornography arrest helped by Google is raising privacy concerns. Federal investigators arrested a Woodland man on child pornography charges after Google found images on his computer.

Reviving Lavabit: Can The Issues Be Saved?

11-24-2013 • Simple Justice

The reply brief is in on behalf of Ladar Levison’s Lavabit, and it appears that Marcia Hofman, et al., has worked hard to salvage her strong and critical arguments from the government’s response of waiver. Did she do it? Is it enough

The Secret Reason Germany Wants to Join the NSA “Spy Club”

11-23-2013 • lewrockwell.com

For me, one of the most ironic aspects of the Edward Snowden spy scandal is watching the reaction of foreign governments to it.

Secret Radio: A Neglected Freedom Strategy

11-22-2013 • The Daily Anarchist

Secret radio provides an alternative means by which to network and to spread information. Especially radios that run on batteries can substitute for the internet and for phones. My alternative communication system includes a ham radio and a short-wav

Thousands protest against tough new official secrets law in Japan

11-21-2013 • Reuters

The law, proposed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government, would significantly broaden the definition of official secrets, which Abe says is vital for strengthening security cooperation with main ally the United States and other countries.

Next Stop On The Road To Surveillance State: License Plate Scanners

11-20-2013 • by Radley Balko (Huffington Post)

Cops could scan plates at protests, or at meetings of activist groups to keep tabs on who's in attendance. A man was pulled over by anti-terrorism police because his car was on a "hot list" after his plate was scanned at an anti-war protest.

Inside America's Plan to Kill Online Privacy Rights Everywhere

11-20-2013 • .

The US and its key intelligence allies are quietly working behind the scenes to kneecap a mounting movement in the UN to promote a universal human right to online privacy, according to diplomatic sources and an internal US government document

US and UK struck secret deal to allow NSA to 'unmask' Britons' personal data

11-20-2013 • The Guardian

The phone, internet and email records of UK citizens not suspected of any wrongdoing have been analyzed and stored by America's National Security Agency under a secret deal that was approved by British intelligence officials,

Oakland surveillance center protest dissipates

11-20-2013 • San Fransisco Chronicle

Oakland's City Council voted to move ahead with controversial city surveillance center during a raucous council meeting Tuesday morning that only ended when the police cleared out the chambers.