Why does a Fisa court decide if Twitter can talk about its dealings with Fisa?
• The GuardianSecret tribunals are not appropriate forums to resolve questions of constitutional law about Americans' right to privacy
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Surveillance
The Libertarian Angle - Freedom and Privacy vs. the NSA
• fff.orgEach week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger discusses the hot topics of the day. This week, the continuing scandal at the NSA.
Smart Meters Snitch on Water Wasters in a Drought?
• WiredAfter employees reported McDonalds for water usage violations, the Water Department installed a meter at the restaurant that reports water usage over the web every five minutes.
Privacy Apocalypse: 5 Devices You Can't Hide From
• SurvivopediaYou can rest uneasily, but assured, that in the very near future when a cop stops you and scans your driver license into his computer, he will know anything even remotely 'suspicious' or 'questionable' about ALL the recent activities and beha
NSA Celebrates Passage of USA 'Freedom' Act, While Skype Keeps Its Spying Eyes on You
• http://cointelegraph.comThe act legalized and simplified the collecting of phone metadata for the NSA. Meanwhile Skype continues to collect voice, chat, video and other data, and deliver it to the Five Eyes international spy coalition.
Duqu 2.0
• Schneier on SecurityKaspersky Labs discovered and publicized details of a new nation-state surveillance malware system, called Duqu 2.0. It's being attributed to Israel. There's code specifically targeting anti-virus software, both Kaspersky and others.
A government surveillance bill by any other name is just as dangerous
• The GuardianThe Cisa 'cybersecurity' bill is really a way to blow another massive hole in Americans' privacy
Russia and China 'broke into Snowden files to identify British and US spies'
• The GuardianSunday Times says Downing Street believes both nations have hacked into American whistleblower's files, and that agents have been put in peril
Security News This Week: The NSA Can't Stop, Won't Stop...
• AUTHOR: YAEL GRAUER AND EMILY DREYFUSS. YAEL GRAUESecurity News This Week: The NSA Can't Stop, Won't Stop (Neither Will Israel, China, or Britain)
Germany drops inquiry into claims NSA tapped Angela Merkel's phone
• http://www.theguardian.comProsecutors say they can find no actionable evidence to support claims German chancellor's mobile phone was tapped by US National Security Agency
GOP Chief Is Bailing Out the Surveillance State, Top Democrats Say
• http://www.thedailybeast.comThe Senate's Republican leader is pushing to give the government new authorities to snoop. Some civil libertarians are calling it 'Patriot Act 2.0.'
UK intelligence agencies should keep mass surveillance powers, report says
• http://www.theguardian.comReport by official reviewer of counter-terrorism laws also says ministers should be stripped of power to authorise surveillance warrants
Congress Somehow Magically Didn't Notice the FBI Created a 'Small Air Force' to Spy on U
• http://truthstreammedia.comAt this point it is ludicrous and hard to watch mainstream media sources pretend to be outraged at the inaction of Congress in the face of the growing police state.
Feds Subpoena Reason Foundation
• http://www.cato.orgReason's Nick Gillespie wrote a blog post about the federal prosecution of the man behind the Silk Road project, a sophisticated narcotics distribution operation. (If you're tempted to comment on that post, please finish reading this post first.
Reason Magazine Subpoena Stomps on Free Speech
• http://www.bloombergview.comWielding subpoenas demanding information on anonymous commenters, the government is harassing a respected journalism site that dissents from its policies
Obama lawyers asked secret court to ignore public court's decision on spying
• theguardian.comJustice Department's national security chief cites six-month transition period in the USA Freedom Act as a reason to turn the bulk surveillance spigot back on
Obama lawyers asked secret court to ignore public court's decision on spying
• http://www.theguardian.comJustice Department's national security chief cites six-month transition period in the USA Freedom Act as a reason to turn the bulk surveillance spigot back on
Wearables at work: the new frontier of employee surveillance
• http://www.ft.comHe only had himself to blame, Mike Weston thought ruefully as he strapped a Fitbit to his wrist one cold February morning. His company was about to start tracking him 24 hours a day, gathering data on everything from his sleep quality and heart rate
NSA surveillance debate gives rise to bipartisan civil liberties coalition
• http://news.yahoo.com, By Sara SorcherBehind the scenes, the battle to curb National Security Agency call records surveillance catalyzed an unlikely coalition that bridged far-left and far-right political divides.
Slave or Rebel? Ten Principles for Escaping the Matrix and Standing Up to Tyranny
• http://popularliberty.com, By Michael Nystrom"Until they become conscious, they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled, they cannot become conscious."--George Orwell
The NSA's Technotyranny: One Nation Under Surveillance
• http://original.antiwar.com, by John W. WhiteheadWe now have a fourth branch of government.
Exclusive: Inside Washington's Quest to Bring Down Edward Snowden
• Jason Leopold, Vice NewsA bipartisan group of Washington lawmakers solicited details from Pentagon officials that they could use to "damage" former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's "credibility in the press and the court of public opinion."
What an NYPD Spy Copter Reveals About the FBI's Spy Planes
• http://www.wired.comIt should have surprised no one that the FBI has a secret fleet of spy planes it uses domestically to watch us, as the Associated Press reported this week.
National Journal: Edward Snowden Is Not Going Away
• http://popularliberty.comThe balance of power is beginning to shift," the fugitive leaker said on the two-year anniversary of his first disclosure.
Snowden: balance of power has shifted as people defy government surveillance
• http://www.theguardian.comWhistleblower says 'profound difference' has occurred over past two years after leaking of NSA documents as public demands privacy
New Snowden Documents Reveal Secret Memos Expanding Spying
• Julia Angwin, digg and New York TimesWithout public notice or debate, the Obama administration has expanded the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance of Americans' international Internet traffic to search for evidence of malicious computer hacking, according to classified
Edward Snowden: The World Says No to Surveillance
• http://www.nytimes.comMOSCOW -- TWO years ago today, three journalists and I worked nervously in a Hong Kong hotel room, waiting to see how the world would react to the revelation that the National Security Agency had been making records of nearly every phone call in the
The National-Security State Lives
• http://www.thedailybell.comSen. Rand Paul accomplished something worthwhile when, almost single-handedly, he saw to it that Section 215 of the Patriot Act expired. For that he deserves our heartfelt thanks.
Hunting for Hackers, N.S.A. Secretly Expands Internet Spying at U.S. Border
• http://www.nytimes.comIn mid-2012, Justice Department lawyers wrote two secret memos permitting the spy agency to begin hunting on Internet cables, without a warrant and on American soil
Back from the dead: US officials to ask secret court to revive NSA surveillance
• Spencer Ackerman The GuardianThe Obama administration intends to use part of a law banning the bulk collection of US phone records to temporarily restart the bulk collection of US phone records.
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