Patrick C. Toomey writes: Every time you email someone overseas, the NSA copies and searches your message. It makes no difference if you or the person you’re communicating with has done anything wrong. If the NSA believes your message could contain information relating to the foreign affairs of the United States – because of whom you’re…
Category: Govt
The CIA campaign to steal Apple’s secrets
Jeremy Scahill and Josh Begley report: Researchers working with the Central Intelligence Agency have conducted a multi-year, sustained effort to break the security of Apple’s iPhones and iPads, according to top-secret documents obtained by The Intercept. The security researchers presented their latest tactics and achievements at a secret annual gathering, called the “Jamboree,” where attendees discussed strategies for exploiting…
NSA should respect corporations’ privacy
An editorial in the Boston Globe begins: After Edward Snowden’s revelations last year, no one seems surprised at the scope of the National Security Agency’s snooping. Indeed, the recent revelations by the Moscow-based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab detailing how the spy agency had managed to find a way to hack into almost any computer’s hard drive…
FTC Commissioner Brill, privacy advocate, ‘disappointed’ with White House proposal
Rich Lord reports: Federal Trade Commissioner Julie Brill, considered the federal government’s leading voice on consumer privacy, on Saturday said she was “disappointed” with a week-old White House draft “bill of rights,” while adding that it furthered the discussion on the ever-expanding flow of personal data. “I do commend the administration for grappling with some…