NSA Surveillance Far Beyond Orwell’s Imagination
The potential of the surveillance state goes way beyond anything in George Orwell’s 1984
NSA Bugged the U.N.
The U.S. National Security Agency has bugged the United Nations’ New York headquarters, Germany’s Der Spiegel weekly said on Sunday in a report on U.S. spying that could further strain relations between Washington and its allies
The NSA’s War on American Civil Liberties
The twin revelations that telecom carriers have been secretly giving the National Security Agency information about Americans’ phone calls, and that the N.S.A. has been capturing e-mail and other private communications from Internet companies as part of a secret program called Prism
Snowstorm: Spying at the G20 Summit
Foreign politicians and officials who took part in two G20 summit meetings in London in 2009 had their computers monitored and their phone calls intercepted on the instructions of their British government hosts, according to documents seen by the Guardian
NSA’s Secret Verizon Spying Order Targeted American Citizens
The latest revelation of the extent of the NSA’s surveillance shows that it has focused specifically on Americans, to the degree that its data collection has in at least one major spying incident explicitly excluded those outside the United States
Obama’s Surveillance State
Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama
U.S. Government Secretly Mines User Data From Internet Giants
The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants, according to a top secret document obtained by the Guardian
Former FBI Agent: ‘Surveillance State Is Real’
A former FBI counterterrorism agent acknowledged this week on CNN that every telephone conversation that takes place on American soil “is being captured as we speak.”
FBI-Backed Bill Would Fine US Firms For Refusing Wiretaps
A US government task force is drafting FBI-backed legislation that would penalize companies like Google and Facebook for refusing to comply with wiretap orders, media report. In the new legislation being drafted by US law enforcement officials, refusal to cooperate with the FBI could cost a tech company tens of thousands of dollars in fines, the Washington Post quoted anonymous sources as saying.
The NDAA and the Death of Democracy
On Wednesday a few hundred activists crowded into the courtroom of the Second Circuit, the spillover room with its faulty audio feed and dearth of chairs, and Foley Square outside the Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse in Manhattan where many huddled in the cold
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