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Couldn’t have said it better: Criminal NSA
This Op-Ed piece in the NYT by Jennifer Stisa Granick, director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, and Christopher Jon Sprigman, professor at the University of Virginia...
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Pentagon Cyber Command hints at internet “kill switch”
The Pentagon is updating its classified rules for warfare in cyberspace for the first time in seven years. “If the nation’s critical infrastructure came under attack from poisonous code over a computer...
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US traps Snowden in international limbo
Edward Snowden, accused Mr. Obama and the United States government of seeking to intimidate him and deceive the world because of his disclosures about the vast global surveillance efforts of American...
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Restore Fourth Amendment rally at state capitals Thursday
The Restore the Fourth movement – referring to the US constitution’s fourth amendment – said it wants to end “unconstitutional surveillance”. Reddit, Mozilla and WordPress are among the big web names...
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Ecuadorian embassy bugged by intelligence firm
Ecuador has asked the UK to help an investigation over alleged spying at its embassy in London where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is living. Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino told a news conference...
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Mail Isolation Control & Tracking the Prism of Snail Mail
The Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program was created after the anthrax attacks in late 2001. Highly secret, it seeped into public view last month when the F.B.I. cited it in its investigation of...
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South American states rally around Morales
South America’s leaders rallied to support Bolivian President Evo Morales after his plane was rerouted amid suspicions that NSA leaker Edward Snowden was on board. The presidents of Argentina, Ecuador,...
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Hackers attack Jay-Z, OTO and the surveillance state
Hackers have cloned the Android app of rapper Jay-Z and inserted messages criticising the US government. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23194413 Cloned versions of the app available via...
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Venezuela, Nicaragua offer asylum to Snowden
Venezuela said Friday that he would offer asylum to the fugitive intelligence contractor Edward J. Snowden, who has been stranded in a Moscow airport searching for a safe haven....
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FISA usurps Supreme Court on civil liberties
In more than a dozen classified rulings, the nation’s surveillance court has created a secret body of law giving the National Security Agency the power to amass vast collections of data on Americans...
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Brazil wants US to stop spying on their citizens
Brazil’s foreign minister expressed “deep concern” over the issue and said his government would press the United Nations to take action that “preserves the sovereignty of all countries.”...
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Privacy group goes to Supreme Court to stop NSA
A privacy rights group, Electronic Privacy Information Center, plans to file an emergency petition with the Supreme Court on Monday asking it to stop the National Security Agency’s domestic...
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Hacker conference to bar FBI, intelligence services
The main Def Con event that takes place in Las Vegas from 1 August and will see 15,000 hackers debate security topics and demonstrate their coding prowess. The convention had been an “open nexus” where...
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Microsoft the leader in NSA collaboration
Microsoft has collaborated with the National Security Agency more extensively than it previously acknowledged, providing the spy agency with up-to-date access to its customer data whenever the company...
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US thwarting all attempts at whistle-blower asylum
The United States is conducting a diplomatic full-court press to try to block Edward J. Snowden, the fugitive American intelligence contractor, from finding refuge in Latin America, where three...
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Russia, UN to copy NSA surveillance techniques
Two members of Russia’s Parliament have cited Mr. Snowden’s leaks about N.S.A. spying as arguments to compel global Internet companies like Google and Microsoft to comply more closely with Russian...
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US plays constitutional shell game with surveillance
Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr., the Obama administration’s top appellate lawyer, argued that a challenge to a 2008 surveillance law should be dismissed....
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Snowden’s protects himself with “dead-man’s pact”
Edward Snowden has highly sensitive documents on how the National Security Agency is structured and operates that could harm the U.S. government, but has insisted that they not be made public....
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Department stores tracking customer behavior with wi-fi
Nordstrom posted a sign telling customers it was tracking them, shoppers were unnerved. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/business/attention-shopper-stores-are-tracking-your-cell.html?pagewanted=all...
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Jay-Z and OTO get into the datamining biz
Samsung is denying claims that it has invaded the privacy of customers who downloaded the free Jay-Z Magna Carta Holy Grail app. http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/23331416 US civil liberties group the...
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