A government of limitless power. Mass surveillance is becoming a punchline. John Kerry jokes with the press that it’s “so nice to put faces to the metadata.” Former National Security Agency chief Keith Alexander appears on John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight
and cheerfully describes the NSA as “the only agency in government that
really listens.” ... MORE
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Alex Marthews: Mass Government Surveillance Is No Joke
A government of limitless power. Mass surveillance is becoming a punchline. John Kerry jokes with the press that it’s “so nice to put faces to the metadata.” Former National Security Agency chief Keith Alexander appears on John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight
and cheerfully describes the NSA as “the only agency in government that
really listens.” ... MOREThe CIA Campaign To Steal Apple’s Secrets
by Jeremy Scahill and Josh Begley. Researchers working with the Central Intelligence Agency have conducted a multi-year, sustained effort to break the security of Apple’s iPhones and iPads, according to top-secret documents obtained by The Intercept. The security researchers presented their latest tactics and achievements at a secret annual ... MORENY Times Editorial: The President's Weak Privacy Proposal
Codifying bad behavior. President
Obama has said that the country needs a strong privacy law so consumers
can protect personal information from advertisers, Internet firms,
employers and other businesses. But the country is not going to get it
from Mr. Obama. The bill his administration recently offered will do
little to help individuals while giving ... MOREHealthcare.gov Shares Your Personal Data With Marketers
by Rob Hustle. HealthCare.gov is sharing your private personal health data with over a dozen online marketing companies. These companies provide tools that allow HealthCare.gov to track, analyze and record anyone who visits the site. But, despite its promise that “no personally identifiable information is collected by these tools,” the ... MOREJustice Department Working On Car-Tracking Database
To combat drug trafficking, of course. The Justice Department has acknowledged constructing a database to
track the movements of millions of vehicles across the U.S. in real
time. The program, whose existence was first reported by The Wall Street Journal,
is primarily overseen by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to combat ... MOREVIDEO: Utah Bill Would Turn Off Water To NSA Data Center
Standing up to unconstitutional federal surveillance.
NSA Reports Detail Decade's Worth Of Privacy Violations
by Jesse Byrnes. The National Security Agency has quietly released more than a decade of reports detailing surveillance activities that potentially violated U.S. citizens' privacy rights. Covering NSA activities from mid-2001 to 2013, the heavily-redacted reports document possible abuses, including instances of employees emailing classified ... MORE
Tammy Bruce: Another Blow To ObamaCare Privacy
Personal medical info to be shared with 35 federal agencies. Get ready to fight back: Last week, the Health and Human Services Department announced a plan to share your medical records with over 35 federal agencies — all in the name of “health care,” of course. All in the name of “efficiency,” the favorite excuse used by fascists ... MORELaziness At The Expense Of Privacy And Freedom
by Leon Spencer. John McAfee calls out Google and our own laziness. Computer antivirus software developer John McAfee made a surprise appearance at the Def Con hacker conference in Las Vegas over the weekend, where he spoke about the "eroded nature of privacy in our lives today". McAfee, founder of the antivirus software company ... MORE
David Bauder: NSA Surveillance Is Hampering Journalists
A chilling effect on truth-seeking. Revelations over the past few years about how U.S. security officials have the ability to track people through phone, email and other electronic records are making it harder for journalists to report on what the government is doing, two human rights groups say. Human Rights Watch and the American Civil ... MOREThe Naked Truth About the American Police State
by John W. Whitehead. It’s vogue, trendy and appropriate to look to dystopian literature as a harbinger of what we’re experiencing at the hands of the government. Certainly, George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm have much to say about government tyranny, corruption, and control, as does Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Philip K. Dick’s ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: The NSA's Online Dragnet
Warrantless surveillance hits the target. As an Illinois senator running for president in 2008, Barack
Obama
promised there would be no more "wiretaps without warrants"
under his administration. He abandoned that position even before he
was elected to the White House, voting for legislation
that amended the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance ... MOREThousands Of Americans Subject To Warrantless Searches
by Kristian Foden-Vencil. The U.S. Intelligence community has informed Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden that it has searched the information of thousands of Americans as part of its foreign surveillance efforts. The searches happen when the government targets a foreigner and Americans get swept up. Wyden says that means e-mails, phone calls ... MORENSA Claims Our Surveillance System Is Too Complex to Stop
by Joe Wolverton, II. The National Security Agency (NSA) claims that its computers are so
powerful that to try to protect data from erasure would have “an
immediate, specific, and harmful impact on the national security of the
United States.” This is the argument put forth by the surveillance agency to excuse
itself from preserving data ... MOREWhy Trust A Government That Kills, Maims, Tortures, Lies, Spies, Cheats, And Treats Its Citizens Like Criminals?
by John W. Whitehead. For that matter, why should anyone trust a government utterly lacking in transparency, whose actions give rise to more troubling questions than satisfactory answers, and whose domestic policies are dictated more by paranoia than need? Unfortunately, “we the people” have become so trusting, so gullible, so easily ... MORE
Eliana Johnson: IRS Sent Confidential Database To FBI
More evidence the government is not us. The Internal Revenue Service may have been caught violating federal tax law: In October 2010, the agency sent a database on 501(c)(4) social-welfare groups containing confidential taxpayer information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to documents obtained by a House panel. The ... MOREVIDEO: Edward Snowden Censored By NBC ABout 9-11
A video from footage left on the cutting room floor.
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