NSA Tracks Billions of Cell-Phone Locations Daily

The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world

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America’s Plan to Kill Internet Privacy Rights

The US and its key intelligence allies are quietly working behind the scenes to kneecap a mounting movement in the UN to promote a universal human right to online privacy

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Discovered: Largest Mass Grave Site in the U.S.

That an island like this exists at all, not only in the contemporary United States but within the city limits of New York, is astonishing

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E.U. to Suspend U.S. Data Sharing

The European Union has threatened to suspend or even terminate the crucial EU-US Terrorist Finance Tracking Program

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Project Lists People Killed by U.S. Drones in Pakistan

US drone strikes that the CIA claims target only al-Qaeda militants have killed at least 400 civilians in Pakistan over the past decade. That’s according to “Naming the Dead,” a new project that aims to identify and collect data on those killed by drones

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U.S. to Deploy Sea Monsters

As a response to budget cuts affecting the U.S. military, a U.S. agency is proposing that the Navy consider adding seaborne drones to its arsenal to deal with threats in international waters

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Jailed Activist Fights Government Attempt at Media Gag Order

Federal prosecutors will attempt to place a gag order on the jailed activist-journalist Barrett Brown and his legal team on Wednesday that would prevent them from talking to the media about his prosecution

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Broke: U.S. Can’t Afford to Intervene in Syria

The U.S. military, struggling after defense cuts of tens of billions of dollars, will be unable to pay for attacks on Syria from current operating funds and must seek additional money from Congress

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Germany Cuts Surveillance Pact With U.S., U.K.

Germany canceled a Cold War-era surveillance pact with the United States and Britain on Friday in response to revelations by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden about those countries’ alleged electronic eavesdropping operations

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State Department Spent $630,000 on Facebook “Likes”

A striking finding in a recent Inspector General report revealed that the U.S. Department of State spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Facebook “likes” in the past two years, effectively buying fans

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