POSTED 8:29 PM, OCTOBER 27, 2014, SEATTLE — The Seattle Times said Monday night it was “outraged” to learn that the FBI in Seattle created a fake news story on a bogus Seattle Times Web page to plant software in… Read More ›
American Civil Liberties Union
NSA mass collection of phone data is legal, federal judge rules
• Dragnet program deemed ‘controversial but lawful’ • Lawsuit brought by ACLU dismissed • NSA phone data collection deemed legal: full ruling Dan Roberts in Washington theguardian.com, Friday 27 December 2013 11.52 EST Judge said the phone data-collection system… Read More ›
Over 700,000 people on US watch list: and once you get on, there’s no way off
Published time: December 02, 2013 20:59 A US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent checks the identification and boarding pass of a passenger as she passes through security in the terminal at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia… Read More ›
Top secret document reveals NSA spies on porn habits of suspected terrorists in bid to discredit them
Document was revealed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden It shows agency spied on suspected radicalizers to harm their reputations Civil liberties campaigners have voiced concerns about the revelations One says: ‘NSA surveillance activities are anything but narrowly focused’ By Daily… Read More ›
Since When Are Your Phone Calls Private, Goverment Lawyer Asks
By NICK DIVITO MANHATTAN (CN) – Since Americans expect their phone companies to keep records of their calls, they have no basis to challenge the National Security Agency’s mass collection of that data, a lawyer for the government argued Friday…. Read More ›
Government Told to Explain Need for Secrecy “But says it’s a Secret “
By JACK BOUBOUSHIAN (CN) – The U.S. government must explain why a Feb. 19 order of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court cannot be released to the public, even in a redacted form, a FISC judge ruled. In September 2013, Judge… Read More ›
Forced Decryption Fought as Self-Incrimination
By JACK BOUBOUSHIAN (CN) – Forcing a criminal defendant to decrypt personal electronic data compels him to testify against himself in violation of the Fifth Amendment, two nonprofits said in a joint amicus brief. The American Civil Liberties… Read More ›
Senator Dianne Feinstein claims eavesdropping on phone callls is not surveillance, nor is it protected under the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches.
‘No phone call, no Internet transaction, isn’t recorded by the NSA’: Edward Snowden fires back at U.S. government surveillance denials Senator Dianne Feinstein claimed that the NSA’s phone-tracking is benign Whistle-blower Snowden said in a statement that it is pervasive… Read More ›
Book by whistleblower at center of ‘Fast and Furious’ blocked by the ATF
Published time: October 08, 2013 00:20 Edited time: October 09, 2013 09:47 AFP Photo / Pedro Pardo A book authored by an agent at the center of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ “Fast and Furious” gun running… Read More ›
AFI 36-2706, Equal Opportunity Program Military and Civilian ( DoD )
EEV: Originally a PDF document converted to word. Yes there is validation in the document that the colonist were considered extremist, as well as a Nationalism being en extremist ideology. It is by far an overly paranoid document, which can… Read More ›
Sharia law is now legal in Oklahoma
Oklahoma’s Shariah Law Ban Is Unconstitutional & Gone for Good By ANNIE YOUDERIAN (CN) – Oklahoma’s attempt to “specifically target and outlaw Shariah,” or Islamic law, is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Thursday. Chief U.S. District Judge… Read More ›
Revealed: How the NSA will spy on you if you just put the word Osama in an email, text message or Facebook chat
An message sent to a cousin named Osama may now be enough to make any American a target of surveillance The information was couched in a set of rules leaked by Edward Snowden about a 2008 domestic surveillance law The… Read More ›
‘A massive and unprecedented intrusion’: Associated Press condemns US government for seizing journalists’ telephone records without explanation
John Hall Tuesday, 14 May 2013 The Associated Press news agency has condemned the US government for the unexplained seizure of records of telephone calls made by its journalists. Describing the seizure as “a massive and unprecedented intrusion”, AP’s… Read More ›
Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform
By David Kravets 05.10.13 6:30 AM The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a… Read More ›
Bloomberg: New Yorkers will ‘never know where our cameras are’
Published time: April 26, 2013 22:49 New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg visits the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative on April 23, 2013 in New York City. (AFP Photo / John Moore) New York City police officials intend to expand the… Read More ›
How metadata brought down CIA boss David Petraeus
13:59 16 November 2012 by Hal Hodson Every move we make online leaves a trace. This is a lesson former CIA director David Petraeus and his lover, Paula Broadwell, learned in dramatic fashion a few weeks ago after an FBI… Read More ›
US rapidly increased electronic surveillance
Published: 27 September, 2012, 21:51 The US Justice Department has wiretapped the phones of more Americans in the last two years than the entire decade before it, and federal surveillance targeting the Internet usage of US civilians has surged wildly,… Read More ›
Security rules for Democratic National Convention cause concern: Banned: handbags, backpacks, soda cans, drink coolers, scarves, bike helmets, baby strollers, and non-service animals” within the hundred-square-block event zone
By Muriel Kane Sunday, September 2, 2012 20:19 EDT A new ordinance for “extraordinary events” put in place by the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, which is hosting the Democratic National Convention this week, have left attendees as well as… Read More ›
Site appeals against court request to hand over details of tweets relating to Occupy activist charged with disorderly conduct
By Dominic Rushe, The Guardian Monday, August 27, 2012 16:19 EDT Twitter has lodged an appeal against a New York judge’s decision that it must hand over detailed information related to an Occupy Wall Street protester charged with disorderly conduct…. Read More ›
Engineering Evil 