Shane Harris, Noah Schachtman, and John Hudson report: Former intelligence officials and technology industry executives reacted with anger and anxiety over the latest revelations that the National Security Agency is reportedly infiltrating some of the world’s biggest technology companies and making off with the private communications of millions of their customers. And if the reports…
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Data Brokers and the Federal Government: A New Front in the Battle for Privacy Opens, Part III in a series
The World Privacy Forum has issued Part III of its report. Here’s how the Executive Summary begins: The US federal government is one of the largest and most frequent customers of commercial data brokers. Instead of creating its own databases subject to privacy laws applicable to federal agencies, the federal government often outsources the collection…
NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say
Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani report: The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials. By tapping those links, the agency has positioned itself to collect at…
Facebook Login Demanding “Government ID” For Some Users
JG Vibes reports: This week a large number of Facebook users have been locked out of their accounts and are being forced to submit a government ID before they are allowed to log back in. This is part of a process that Facebook began over a year ago, which seeks to remove any trace of…