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Whoda thunk it: Obamas’ reversal on Patriot Act
Survival News Network —
Authority: 143
Key components in the USA Patriot Act are set to expire at the end of the year, but President Barack Obama is seeking to extend them, reversing his stark opposition in the past to the same provisions.…These three main aspects in question allow the government to acquire private information about civilians through ...7 hours ago -
Whoda thunk it: Obamas’ reversal on Patriot Act
The Gates of Hell —
Authority: 135
Key components in the USA Patriot Act are set to expire at the end of the year, but President Barack Obama is seeking to extend them, reversing his stark opposition in the past to the same provisions. … These three main aspects in question allow the government to acquire private information about civilians through ...1 day ago -
Sprint to Humans: We Know Where You Are, and So Do the Police [Privacy]
Gizmodo —
Authority: 883
In the last year alone, Sprint turned over users GPS data to authorities 8 million times. While that number is misleadingly high—this could translate to under a thousand individual...4 days ago -
Did Sprint violate customer privacy 8 million times?
Computerworld Blogs —
Authority: 146
A blogger alleges that phone companies and ISPs are routinely providing data on their customers activities to law enforcement... without a warrant . In IT Blogwatch , bloggers search for the truth. read more4 days ago -
Soghoian: 8 Million Reasons for Real Surveillance Oversight
Freedom to Tinker —
Authority: 558
If youre interested at all in surveillance policy, go and read Chris Soghoians long and impassioned post today. Chris drops several bombshells into the debate, including an audio recording of a closed-door talk by Sprint/NexTels Electronic Surveillance Manager, bragging about how easy the company has made it for ...5 days ago -
Authority to Spy on Americans Unclear as Patriot Act Expires
JustGetThere —
Authority: 134
Editor: If its unclear, read the Bill of Rights ABC News | Rushed into law by Congress just weeks after Sept. 11, 2001 three controversial provisions of the Patriot Act granting officials far-reaching surveillance and seizure powers in the name of national security, are due to expire this New Years ...5 days ago -
The Online Movement Against Warrantless Spying, 2008 and Now
Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print —
Authority: 514
In the 6-day period between July 2 and July 7 2008, as the Senate prepared to pass a regime of warrantless surveillance under the auspices of the FISA Amendments Act , ten thousand Americans added their names to a declaration opposing the legislation and calling upon presidential candidate Barack Obama to vote ...1 week ago -
Wikileaks publishes 570,000 9/11 messages
BuzzFlash.net: published —
Authority: 459
The article is about the chaos of 9/11 as portrayed by 570,000 text messages. But thats not the real story. Heres the real story: "It is clear that the information comes from an organisation which has been intercepting and archiving US national telecommunications since prior to 9/11." » noticia original1 week ago -
Galleon Chief Attacks Government’s Case Against Him
NYT > Theater —
Authority: 902
Raj Rajaratnam, the founder of the Galleon Group, said his hedge fund had based its investments on research and not, as the authorities claim, on inside information.1 week ago -
In Reply to S.E.C., Rajaratnam Attacks Wiretap Use
NYT > Theater —
Authority: 902
Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge fund executive accused of masterminding a $20 million insider trading ring, responded to civil fraud charges on Tuesday, attacking investigators use of wiretaps and arguing that prosecutors omitted key facts in their original complaint.1 week ago -
State Secrets Privilege: The Puppets & Puppet Masters by Sibel Edmonds
Dandelion Salad —
Authority: 494
by Sibel EdmondsFeatured WriterDandelion Saladoriginally published by Boiling Frogs Post23 November 2009It’s Time to Get the Facts StraightI want to revisit a topic which happens to be extremely important to me, both personally and politically, and even more important to our civil liberties.Some of you have already ...1 week ago -
Mushrooming Spy Scandal in Argentina
Spy vs Spy —
Authority: 428
laht.com BUENOS AIRES – Revelations of illegal wiretapping by a former cop have sparked a war of words between the city’s conservative mayor and the center-left government of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez. Federal Cabinet chief Anibal Fernandez (no relation to the president) said Thursday that Mauricio ...2 weeks ago -
An Analysis of Warrantless Wiretapping – Part II by Richard Scott
Dandelion Salad —
Authority: 494
by Richard ScottDandelion Saladoriginally published by Boiling Frogs Post19 November 2009Parental Controls on EveryoneIn Part one of my piece, I attempted to explain the nature and scope of the US Warrantless Wiretap Program and the growing Surveillance Regime being built in this country. In Part 2, I will compare and ...2 weeks ago -
NSA Is Giving Microsoft Some Help On Windows 7 Security
JustGetThere —
Authority: 134
By Kevin Whitelaw NPR | The National Security Agency has been working with Microsoft Corp. to help improve security measures for its new Windows 7 operating system, a senior NSA official said on Tuesday. The confirmation of the NSA’s role, which began during the development of the software, is a sign of ...2 weeks ago -
Bush Administration Was Afraid It Would Have To Admit Telcos Hel...
Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com —
Authority: 169
With the EFF finally successful in getting the federal govt to hand over some lobbying documents involved in the process of granting telcos total immunity in lawsuits over warrantless wiretapping, the press is starting to go through the documents. read more2 weeks ago -
President Obama: Dont Lecture China on Censorship
Democrats.com - The Aggressive Progressives! —
Authority: 431
By Dave Lindorff President Obama, in his visit to China, held a “town meeting” with Chinese students in which he praised openness and lectured them on the value of freedom of information, saying that he is a “supporter of non-censorship” and that open access to information was a “source of strength.” ...2 weeks ago -
How to fight the cops
Suspense Author's Daily HotchPotch —
Authority: 130
People who think they are being wiretapped by the cops could disable the taps by sending a stream of text messages or making numerous VOIP calls to overwhelm the system’s thin bandwidth, researchers in Pennsylvania postulate.The researchers say they’ve found a vulnerability in U.S. law enforcement wiretaps, if ...3 weeks ago -
How to DDOS a federal wiretap
Survival News Network —
Authority: 143
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania say they’ve discovered a way to circumvent the networking technology used by law enforcement to tap phone lines in the U.S.The flaws they’ve found “represent a serious threat to the accuracy and completeness of wiretap records used for both criminal investigation ...3 weeks ago -
Shortened Links to Live On, New Supreme Court Case Database, and More
The Command Line —
Authority: 433
The reguar Friday happy hour at the the $employer tried to break my daily posting streak. I’m not having that. Archiving of url shortened links If you wondered about the long term viability of shortened URLS, especially with the third party indexing of Twitter and other social messaging services, this is good ...3 weeks ago -
The FISA Amendments: Behind the Scenes
Cato @ Liberty —
Authority: 743
I’ve been poring over the trove of documents the Electronic Frontier Foundation has obtained detailing the long process by which the FISA Amendments Act—which substantially expanded executive power to conduct sweeping surveillance with little oversight—was hammered out between Hill staffers and lawyers at the ...3 weeks ago

