According to the outgoing director of the U.S. National Security Agency, the agency is acquiring large quantities of commercially available web browsing data on Americans without a warrant. NSA director Gen. Paul Nakasone revealed the practice in a letter to Sen. Ron Wyden, a staunch advocate for privacy and a …
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NSA Discloses Security Flaws Only When it is Convenient for Them
We all know that the National Security Agency has access to most or all of the data we send and receive. They also know a lot about the cyber threats that are targeting us on a daily basis. Recently the NSA was accused of retaining information regarding security flaws in …
Read More »NSA surveillance unlawful, about to be ended completely
The NSA surveillance methods that have thus far been motivated as being authorized through the Patriot Act today got a big blow from a U.S. Federal Appeals Court. The court decided that the NSA surveillance of phone records and metadata is unlawful and that Congress should make changes to the surveillance …
Read More »Wikipedia sues NSA over surveillance brawl
Wikipedia and implicitly, Wikimedia Foundation sued the NSA (National Security Agency) and the U.S. Department of Justice, saying that these two government agencies are pursuing non-democratic ways in which they can gather intelligence on foreign nations and American citizens. Wikimedia Foundation executive director Lila Tretujiv describes perfectly well what the …
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