by Jacob Sullum. Reauthorizing unamended PATRIOT Act would be reckless. When Congress passed the PATRIOT Act in 2001, it did not intend to
authorize the indiscriminate collection of personal information about
every American. But that is what Congress will be doing if it renews the
law next month without changes aimed at protecting our privacy ... MORE
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Showing posts with label NSA. Show all posts
NSA Spreads Its Message By Producing Coloring Books
Conditioning kids to the police state. By the time I found the National Security Agency booth on the expo
floor at last week’s RSA Conference, all the best shwag was gone. The
most prized giveaway was a faux-leather Post-it Note kit bearing the
agency’s seal. “We can’t print enough of those,” the agency rep manning the booth
told me. ... MORE
Jeb Bush Agrees With Obama On Secretive, Warrantless, Privacy-Violating Mass Surveillance Program On Citizens
Just like bro. It’s reasonably rare for potential Republican presidential candidates to compliment the Obama administration, so any time they do, it ends up being fairly revealing. For example, when former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush—who is currently in the process of “actively exploring” a presidential run—was asked yesterday for his thoughts on “the ... MORE
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Rand Paul Vows End Of NSA Spying 'On Day 1' Of Presidency
by Robby Soave. Taking back America. Rand Paul's campaign kickoff just concluded with a rousing speech by the libertarian-leaning U.S. senator from Kentucky in which he promised that his first act as president would be to stop the NSA's illegal spying on American citizens. He vowed to win the White House while clutching the Bill of Rights in one ... MORE
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U.S. Secretly Tracked Billions Of Calls For Decades
by Brad Heath. The U.S. government started keeping secret records of Americans' international telephone calls nearly a decade before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, harvesting billions of calls in a program that provided a blueprint for the far broader National Security Agency surveillance that followed. For more than two decades, the Justice Department ... MORE
Ian Hanchett: Jeb Bush Is 'Nervous' About NSA Criticism
Hostility to the Fourth Amendment. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush stated that he is “nervous” about criticism of the NSA and that he wished the president would do a better job defending government surveillance systems on Monday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show.” Bush said that lone wolf terrorism “is a serious threat in a world where we’re so ... MORE
Andrew Napolitano: Amendment By Consent
WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE? Here is a short pop quiz. When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress earlier this month about the parameters of the secret negotiations between the United States and Iran over nuclear weapons and economic sanctions, how did he know what the negotiators were considering? Israel is not a party to ... MORE
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House Effort Would Restore Privacy & Kill The Patriot Act
Pushing back against terrorism's victories. A pair of House lawmakers wants to completely repeal the Patriot Act
and other legal provisions to dramatically rein in American spying. Reps. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) on Tuesday unveiled their Surveillance State Repeal Act, which would overhaul American spying powers ... MORE
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NSA Doesn’t Need To Spy Your Calls To Learn Your Secrets
by Bruce Schneier. Governments and corporations gather, store, and analyze the tremendous amount of data we chuff out as we move through our digitized lives. Often this is without our knowledge, and typically without our consent. Based on this data, they draw conclusions about us that we might disagree with or object to, and that can impact ... MORE
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information,
Internet,
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NSA,
privacy,
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John W. Whitehead: The Wolf Is Guarding The Hen House
The government’s war on cyberterrorism. Nothing you write, say, text, tweet or share via phone or computer is private anymore. This is the new normal in America today. A process which started shortly after 9/11 has grown into a full-fledged campaign of warrantless surveillance, electronic tracking and data mining, carried out by federal agents who have been given carte blanche access to the vast majority of electronic communications in America. Their methods completely undermine constitution safeguards, and yet no federal agency, president, court or legislature has stepped up to halt this assault on our rights.
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H A Goodman: Jon Stewart and Jimmy Fallon Have A Point: Why Not Ask the NSA To Produce Hillary Clinton's Emails?
Big Brother has every one of them. Political attacks against Hillary Clinton often times make for good comedy, which is why during this Daily Show segment, Jon Stewart asks the following questions: "Don't
we have a facility in Utah that collects all of our emails, anyway,
solving the whole archive problem?" he asked. "Can't you just ask them,
or they ... MORE
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e-mail,
Hillary Clinton,
hypocrisy,
NSA,
scandal,
secrecy,
transparency
Nick Gass: Edward Snowden Is Ready To Return To U.S.
But can he get a fair trial? Edward Snowden is ready to go home to the United States. “Snowden
is ready to return to the States, but on the condition that he is given
a guarantee of a legal and impartial trial,” his Russian lawyer Anatoly
Kucherena said at a news conference Tuesday, as quoted by Russian state media outlet TASS. The former National ... MORE
Laura Myers: Big Brother Looms Large At FreedomFest
More skepticism of government needed. Big Brother is watching Americans’ every move and violating their civil rights at every turn as the country becomes a militarized police state, participants at a libertarian-minded gathering in Las Vegas said Thursday. Panelists at FreedomFest offered plenty of real-world examples to illustrate their ... MORE
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police state,
privacy,
snooping,
spying,
surveillance
Fed Court Rubber Stamps Continued NSA Spying For Now
by Dustin Volz. A federal court has again renewed an order allowing the National Security Agency to continue its bulk collection of Americans' phone records, a decision that comes more than a year after President Obama pledged to end the controversial program. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved this week a government request to ... MORE
Edward Snowden's Libertarian Moment: We "Will Remove From Governments The Ability To Interfere With Rights"
by Nick Gillespie. Via
Mark
Sletten comes this thread from yesterday's
Ask Me Anything session at Reddit that featured Edward Snowden,
Oscar-winning documentarian Laura Poitras, and journalist Glenn
Greenwald. The question posed
to Snowden: What's the best way to make NSA spying an issue in the 2016
Presidential Election? It seems like while it was ... MORE
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Program That Enables America To Spy On EVERY Home Computer In The world Is Uncovered By Outraged Russia
by Reuters reporter and Chris Spargo. America caught violating everyone's privacy. The National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives, allowing them to monitor and eavesdrop on the majority of the world's computers - even when they are not connected to the internet. The Moscow-based security ... MORE
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Russia,
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