SUMMARY: This rule amends the policy of the Department of Justice regarding the use of subpoenas, certain court orders, and search warrants, to obtain information from, or records of, members of the news media. The rule also amends the Department’s… Read More ›
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
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 ›
NSA sucks realtime data from FIFTY companies
Companies are all compelled by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to hand over any information requested under the law, but they’re not required to make access easier PRISM data-mining program was launched in 2007 with approval from special federal judges… Read More ›
Leak of NSA order against Verizon could cause irreversible harm to national security, says top intelligence officer
A copy of a secret order shows that the National Security Agency ordered Verizon to hand over millions of phone records with no explanation Order extends from until July 19 and includes domestic and foreign calls Nearly 150million Verizon customers… Read More ›
Is the NSA building a $1.2billion data center to spy on Americans? Utah desert facility code-named Bumblehive ‘will monitor emails of U.S. citizens’
National Security Agency insists the site will operate according to laws that limit spying on U.S. citizens But civil liberties campaigners warn that the government is seeking to expand these powers The U.S. government operated a secret warrantless wiretapping programme… Read More ›
US Supreme Court throws out challenge to surveillance law
Feb 26, 2013 20:21 Moscow Time Photo: EPA US-based journalists, lawyers and human rights groups cannot challenge a federal law that allows surveillance of some international communications, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday in a case touching on government efforts… Read More ›
NSA whistleblower: Illegal data collection a ‘violation of everybody’s Constitutional rights’: The Story of “ThinThread”
By Paul Harris, The Guardian Saturday, September 15, 2012 14:53 EDT Former National Security Agency official Bill Binney says US is illegally collecting huge amounts of data on his fellow citizens Bill Binney believes he helped create a monster. Sitting… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 