DEA Reportedly Hiding NSA Data Used To Prosecute U.S. CitizensThe Snowden effect continued to roll today, with fresh revelations detailing how the pervasive surveillance of the National Security Agency (NSA) is in fact linked to domestic criminal prosecution. The idea, and the defense, that NSA activity only impacts non-United States citizens and terrorists, is now utterly specious.
We’re living ‘1984’ today(CNN) — It appears that the police now have a device that can read license plates and check if a car is unregistered, uninsured or stolen. We already know that the National Security Agency can dip into your Facebook page and Google searches.
TorrentFreakWhen I founded the Swedish Pirate Party and decided to change the political landscape of the copyright monopoly, I frequently told reporters that the plan was to change Sweden, Europe, and the world – in that order. They usually backed away wondering whether I was serious, so I laid out the plan for them.
Members of Congress denied access to basic information about NSAMembers of Congress have been repeatedly thwarted when attempting to learn basic information about the National Security Agency ( NSA) and the secret FISA court which authorizes its activities, documents provided by two House members demonstrate. From the beginning of the NSA controversy, the agency’s defenders have insisted that Congress is aware of the disclosed programs and exercises robust supervision over them.
The Chemical Industry Divides an Environmental Coalition into DisarrayThe environmental movement has been campaigning since 2005 to modernize US chemicals policy, an uphill battle. The greens have done everything by the book – written a model law, built a national grassroots coalition and dispatched lobbyists to Capitol Hill. Now, however, the chemical industry has executed a classic “divide-and-conquer” maneuver, casting the greens into disarray.
Other Agencies Clamor for Data N.S.A. CompilesWASHINGTON – The National Security Agency ‘s dominant role as the nation’s spy warehouse has spurred frequent tensions and turf fights with other federal intelligence agencies that want to use its surveillance tools for their own investigations, officials say.
Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks, Get a Visit from the FedsMichele Catalano was looking for information online about pressure cookers. Her husband, in the same time frame, was Googling backpacks. Wednesday morning, six men from a joint terrorism task force showed up at their house to see if they were terrorists. Which begs the question: How’d the government know what they were Googling?
Controversial Behavior By Scalia, Thomas Prompts Call For Ethics ReformA group of congressional Democrats is set to introduce legislation Thursday that would apply stricter ethical standards to the Supreme Court, amid concerns that justices have been engaging in questionable behavior. The proposed Supreme Court Ethics Act of 2013 would subject the justices to the Code of Conduct for United States Judges, a set of standards that currently applies to all other federal judges.
Americans offer to serve Manning’s prison term for himSupporters of Bradley Manning are willing to put their life on the line and serve part of his potential 136-year prison sentence and are urging the military judge in charge of the case to consider this option.
Lifelong ‘frack gag’: Two Pennsylvania children banned from discussing frackingThe 7- and 10-year-old children of a Pennsylvania couple that reached a settlement following a lawsuit involving health issues brought on by fracking have been barred from discussing details of the case for the rest of their lives.
‘Encryption is a human right’: Wikipedia aims to lock out NSAWikipedia is taking steps to make its site ‘unsnoopable’ to the NSA following revelations that its site users were being spied on. The measures will include the use of secure encryption for its logged-in users to minimize eavesdropping.
FBI Increasingly Using Malware To Remotely Turn On Phone/Laptop MicrophonesIt’s not a secret that the FBI has used hacking methods in the past to spy on suspected criminals, including keyloggers and remotely turning on microphones in mobile phones, in order to spy on suspected criminals.
Seven telcos named as providing fiber optic cable access to UK spiesNSA leaks View all… In the latest leak from the documents acquired by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, a German newspaper has published a list of the telecommunications companies that have provided British intelligence with direct access to their undersea fiber optic cables.
FBI pressures Internet providers to install surveillance softwareCNET has learned the FBI has developed custom “port reader” software to intercept Internet metadata in real time. And, in some cases, it wants to force Internet providers to use the software. (Credit: Getty Images) The U.S. government is quietly pressuring telecommunications providers to install eavesdropping technology deep inside companies’ internal networks to facilitate surveillance efforts.
Clerk who helped inmate exonerate himself with DNA evidence firedThanks to new DNA evidence a Kansas City man was released from prison three decades after a wrongful rape conviction, though the 70-year-old clerk instrumental in his release was fired for insubordination.
U.S. May Move Against Bank Over Jumbo Loan SecuritiesBank of America disclosed on Thursday that the Justice Department was weighing whether to bring a civil complaint against it over claims that the bank had improperly handled securities backed by jumbo loans.
The Mind Your Own Business ActPetition: “I don’t want the Government looking at my e-mails, my telephone records, my website records, or my GPS records. I cherish my freedom and my privacy. I am not a terrorist, and I won’t let my government treat me like one.
The Government Lied About Being Able To Read Your Email Without A WarrantRep. Mike Rogers, the NSA can in fact get into your email with just an account name. New revelations via the Guardian detail precisely how it works. You have no digital privacy. This is simply another chapter of the NSA scandal in which the government attempted through false narrative to confuse t..