An 'untargeted' global sweep. The National Security Agency has collected almost 200 million text messages a day from across the globe, using them to extract data including location, contact networks and credit card details, according to top-secret documents. The untargeted collection and storage of SMS messages – including their contacts ... MORE
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James Ball: NSA Collects 200 Million Text Messages Daily
An 'untargeted' global sweep. The National Security Agency has collected almost 200 million text messages a day from across the globe, using them to extract data including location, contact networks and credit card details, according to top-secret documents. The untargeted collection and storage of SMS messages – including their contacts ... MOREYour CAR Could Be 'Spying' On You!
Gathering data, tracking: the new vehicle realities. As if Facebook, Google and the federal government squirreling away your personal information wasn't enough, now it seems your car could also be spying on you. According to a new report from the Government Accountability Office, several major automakers and GPS ... MORE
Ian Kirkwood: Big Brother Is Phoning
2014 is 1984. When mobile phones first came into use, the big fear was radiation. Governments and the big phone companies said everything was safe but the worry remained that all of that electromagnetic energy pouring in and out from our ear-held phones would cause brain tumors. More recently, the biggest controversy over the new era of ... MOREFederal Court Approves Federal Phone Record Data Mining
One hand of government washes the other. A federal judge on Friday found that the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of millions of Americans’ telephone records is legal and a valuable part of the nation’s arsenal to counter the threat of terrorism. U.S. District Judge William Pauley said in a written opinion that the program ... MORESnowden's Christmas Message: Privacy Matters
"The mission is already accomplished." In a message broadcast Wednesday on British television, Edward J. Snowden, the former US security contractor, urged an end to mass surveillance, arguing that the electronic monitoring he has exposed surpasses anything imagined by George Orwell in "1984," a dystopian vision of an ... MOREMike Elgan: Are Your Smartphone Apps Selling You Out
Of course they are. The president of the United States says he's not
"allowed" to own an iPhone, which is why he's sticking with his
BlackBerry, according to The Wall Street Journal. It's a politically sensitive subject because the iPhone is the big American brand, and the president is a self-proclaimed fan of the late Apple
founder and CEO Steve ... MOREGuy Adams: Is Your TV Spying On YOU?
The answer is not so simple. You are sitting in bed in your pyjamas, drinking a cup of cocoa. A loved one lies next to you, watching late-night television. Pillow talk is exchanged. An alarm clock is set. Eventually the lights are turned out. Earlier, you sat on the living-room sofa eating supper, before loading the dishwasher and heading ... MORE
FAA Announces Impending Launch Of Surveillance Drones
Serious data-collection on Americans begins. Surveillance monitors and bracelets; key cards; Smart Cards; Radio Frequency Identification tags, labels, and toll collectors; followed by the newest wave of subdermal implants (ostensibly to keep the kids and Grandma safe). Hidden GPS satellite tracking; concealed webcams; ... MOREPatriot Act Author Introduces Bill To Halt NSA Snooping
by Stephen Dinan. The Republican author of the Patriot Act in the House and the senior Democrat in the Senate teamed together Tuesday to write a bill that would stop the National Security Agency’s
bulk collection of phone records and require a court order if the
government wants to search through Americans’ communications. ... MORENSA Spied On 124 BILLION Phone Calls In One Month!
Adam Kredo on NSA's widespread data collection. The National Security Agency recorded information about more than 124 billion phone calls during a 30-day period earlier this year, including around 3 billion calls from U.S. sources, according to a tally from top-secret documents released by multiple news outlets. ... MORE"Terrifying" Surveillance Tactics Shut Down Privacy Service
by Ryan Gallagher. Yet another American Internet privacy service has bitten the dust,
prompted by fears about broad government surveillance demands. San Francisco-based CryptoSeal,
a provider of virtual private networks that can be used to browse the
Internet anonymously, has closed its doors to users of its private VPN ... MOREObamaCare Will Share Info With IRS And Law Enforcement
by Jeryl Bier. Maryland's Health Connection, the state's Obamacare marketplace, has
been plagued by delays in the first days of open enrollment. If users
are able to endure long page-loading delays, they are presented with the
website's privacy policy,
a ubiquitous fine-print feature on websites that often go unread.
Nevertheless, ... MOREWelcome To The Era Of Unlimited Government
by Nick Gillespie. It’s a telling coincidence that the latest scandalous revelation about the National Security Agency (NSA) is hitting the front pages just as the enrollment period specified by the Affordable Care Act (ACA, a.k.a. Obamacare) is getting started. Each of these things underscores different but related aspects of the virtually ... MORE
Government Looking For Witches Will Find Them
by Andrew Napolitano. While the nation's political class has been fixated on a potential government shutdown in Washington this week, the NSA has continued to spy on all Americans and by its ambiguity and shrewd silence seems to be acknowledging slowly that the scope of its spying is truly breathtaking. The Obama administration is of the ... MORESean Riley & Ed Walton: Obama's Privacy Nightmare
Government can't protect your sensitive data. Tuesday marked the first day of open enrollment for the health-insurance exchanges set up by the Affordable Care Act. It didn’t go very well: Would-be health-insurance consumers in at least 47 states encountered technical problems. These so-called glitches, however, mask a ... MOREWill Congress Codify NSA's Sweeping Surveillance Power?
by Brendan Sasso. Supporters and critics of the National Security Agency are preparing for a showdown on Capitol Hill over how to reform the agency in the wake of the leaks by Edward Snowden. Defenders of the agency — primarily the leaders of the House and Senate Intelligence committees — are preparing legislation that would increase ... MORETime To Speak Up Against The NSA's Mass Spying
by Rainey Reitman. This summer, some of our worst fears and suspicions about the NSA
have been confirmed. We now have evidence that the NSA is actively undermining the basic security of the Internet. It is collecting millions and millions of phone records of individuals not suspected of any crime. It is surveilling journalists. The NSA’s ... MOREGene Healy: Be Afraid Of NSA Spying
We've only seen the tip of the iceberg on NSA abuse. “Dear NSA/CSS family,” begins a Sept. 13, 2013, letter to employees and “extended family” of the nation’s largest spy agency from NSA director Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, the boss of the family (CSS stands for Central Security Service, an NSA subagency). In the missive, published ... MORE
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