Mike Masnick writes: So we already wrote about how the House completely watered down the USA Freedom Act to the point that it really does very little, leading basically all of the civil liberties community to withdraw their support for the bill. If you want to know a little more about the politics at play, I highly…
Category: Govt
Canadian telecom giants worried about “antagonizing” feds on lawful access: documents
Alex Boutilier reports: Bell, Rogers and Research In Motion pushed to hold back details on how often customer data is being handed over to law enforcement agencies, recently released documents show. The companies were concerned about “antagonizing” the federal government and police if they shared too much information about authorities snooping their customers’ personal data,…
How the NSA & FBI made Facebook the perfect mass surveillance tool
Harrison Weber reports: The National Security Agency and the FBI teamed up in October 2010 to develop techniques for turning Facebook into a surveillance tool. Documents released alongside security journalist Glenn Greenwald’s new book, “No Place To Hide,” reveal the NSA and FBI partnership, in which the two agencies developed techniques for exploiting Facebook chats, capturing private…
Everyone should know just how much the government lied to defend the NSA
Trevor Timm writes: If you blinked this week, you might have missed the news: two Senators accused the Justice Department of lying about NSA warrantless surveillance to the US supreme court last year, and those falsehoods all but ensured that mass spying on Americans would continue. But hardly anyone seems to care – least of all…