Showing posts with label phone calls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label phone calls. Show all posts
Verizon Reveals More About Federal Spying on Customers
by Josh Peterson. They can hear you now (the Feds, that is). Verizon
updated its transparency report Monday to include orders issued
by the nation’s spy court. During the first six months of 2013, the nation’s spy court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, ordered Verizon between zero to 999 times to hand over content for 4,000 to ... MORESecret Government Is The Chief Threat To Liberty
by Ronald Bailey. Last Friday, President Obama made a
much anticipated speech at the Department of Justice outlining
his proposed reforms of the National Security Agency’s domestic
surveillance program, with a particular focus on the NSA’s
clandestine collection of the records of essentially every
American’s telephone calls. Yesterday, ... 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 ... MOREFBI Spooks: Infiltrating and Informing
by J.D. Tuccille. The National Security Agency isn't the only arm of the government in the surveillance business. According to a September report from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), "every 90 days for the past seven years the FBI has obtained secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court orders compelling telecommunications ... MOREAre You Consenting To Surveillance Right Now?
Jacob Sullum on the perilous condition of privacy. After her purse was snatched in 1976, Patricia McDonough began receiving threatening phone calls from a man who identified himself as her robber. Following one of the calls she saw a car she recognized from the scene of the crime slowly pass by her house in Baltimore. Police later ... MOREA Constitutional Strategy To Stop NSA Spying
by Michael Boldin. The National Security Agency looks at literally millions of phone records. It captures millions of e-mails. It sifts through millions of megabytes of private data. And it does this all without following the requirements of the Fourth Amendment. It can be stopped. How that can be done in a moment -- but first, a closer look at ... 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
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