CISPA’s sponsors are doing the same thing they did last year when confronted with serious opposition to a terrible bill: they start lying about it. First, they released a Original post on techdirt.com Comments on reddit.com
The US Senate has voted to approve the FAA Sunsets Extension Act of 2012, which will authorize warrantless surveillance of Americans for counter-terrorism purposes for another five years. The bill… Original post on theverge.com Comments on reddit.com
Suit over domestic surveillance will reveal state secrets, say DOJ lawyers. Original post on arstechnica.com Comments on reddit.com
The National Security Agency has shot down a Freedom of Information Act request for details about an elusive presidential order that may allow the government to deploy the military within the United States for the supposed sake of cybersecurity. Original post on rt.com Comments on reddit.com
Former National Security Agency official Bill Binney says US is illegally collecting huge amounts of data on his fellow citizens Original post on guardian.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
It’s back. On Thursday the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on a five-year reauthorization of the FISA Amendments Act (FAA), the 2008 law that legalized the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program and more…. Original post on aclu.org Comments on reddit.com
The filmmaker profiles William Binney, a 32-year veteran of the National Security Agency who helped design a top-secret program he says is broadly collecting Americans’ personal data. Original post on nytimes.com Comments on reddit.com
(Repeats story published July 27 for wider distribution)By Joseph Menn and Jim FinkleLAS VEGAS, July 27 (Reuters) – The head of the U.S.government’s secretive National Security Agency took theunprecedented Original post on reuters.com Comments on reddit.com
National Security Agency whistle-blowers Thomas Drake, former senior official, Kirk Wiebe, former senior analyst, and William Binney, former technical director talk to Eliot Spitzer about the latest in their lawsuit alleging the NSA has broken the law through two domestic spying programs. Original post on current.com Comments on reddit.com
“I don’t think the Bush administration would want to see these released, Original post on salon.com Comments on digg.com
How many Americans had their privacy violated via the NSA warrantless wiretap powers granted under the FISA Amendment Act of 2008? The NSA Inspector General said they can’t tell us as that would violate Americans’ privacy. Original post on networkworld.com Comments on digg.com
The American Civil Liberties Union has created an infographic for mass distribution that shows some scary figures related to the U.S. National Security Agency. Since 9/11,… Original post on dawn.com Comments on reddit.com
In his first television interview since he resigned from the National Security Agency over its domestic surveillance program, William Binney discusses the NSA’s massive power to spy on Americans and why the FBI raided his home after he became a whistleblower. Binney was a key source for investigative journalist James Bamford’s recent exposé in Wired Magazine about how the NSA is quietly building the largest spy center in the country in Bluffdale, Utah. The Utah spy center will contain near-bottomless databases to store all forms of communication collected by the agency, including private emails, cell phone calls, Google searches and other personal data. Binney served in the NSA for over 30 years, including a time as technical director of the NSA’s World Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group. Since retiring from the NSA in 2001, he has warned that the NSA’s data-mining program has become so vast that it could Original post on democracynow.org Comments on reddit.com
Alarmed at new claims of NSA warrantless surveillance of Americans, spying on ‘every email, phone call and tweet’ in real time, Congress questioned NSA chief General Alexander. He denied it, but other NSA officials say total information awareness is almost upon us. Original post on computerworld.com Comments on digg.com
You may recall that we’ve written a few times about the Original post on techdirt.com Comments on digg.com
The National Security Agency’s immensely secret project in the Utah desert will intercept, analyze, and store yottabytes of the world’s communications—including yours. Original post on wired.com Comments on digg.com
If we don’t speak out, we’re part of the problem – Progressive blogging for the middle class, not corporate welfare. Original post on freakoutnation.com Comments on digg.com