Carriers Got 1M Gov’t, Police Requests for Data in 2012
Requests for customer mobile phone data from federal, state, and local authorities topped 1 million last year
Lawless and Destructive
When Edward Snowden first revealed the spying the NSA has been conducting on what was then thought to be only customers of Verizon, the government was embarrassed, but it reluctantly acknowledged that Snowden revealed a truth
Government Spying Continues, Full Speed Ahead
A top-secret federal court has renewed the authority of the U.S. government to collect telephone records as part of its surveillance program
Americans Don’t Care That They’re Being Spied on, Stripped of Civil Liberties
“… they won’t be willing to take the risks necessary to stand up and fight to change things, to force their representatives to actually take a stand in their interests.”
Edward Snowden Interview Pt. II
Edward Snowden predicted more than a month ago while still in hiding in Hong Kong that the US government would seek to demonise him, telling the Guardian that he would be accused of aiding America’s enemies
More PRISM Slides Revealed
The Washington Post published on Saturday a set of slides regarding PRISM, revealing more details about the National Security Agency’s controversial surveillance program and how it operates
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
ACLU Sues Obama Administration Over Surveillance State
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit Tuesday against four high-level government officials, arguing that Verizon’s ongoing sharing of telephone metadata to the National Security Agency (NSA) is unconstitutiona
Rand Paul Threatens to Challenge NSA Surveillance State at Supreme Court
Rand Paul told host Chris Wallace he is considering challenging the government at the Supreme Court level with a class-action suit on behalf of those targeted
NSA Whistleblower Comes Forward
The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA’s history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended on hiding in the shadows
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