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Canadian telecom giants worried about “antagonizing” feds on lawful access: documents

Posted on May 21, 2014July 1, 2025 by Dissent

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,…

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How the NSA & FBI made Facebook the perfect mass surveillance tool

Posted on May 20, 2014July 1, 2025 by Dissent

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…

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Everyone should know just how much the government lied to defend the NSA

Posted on May 17, 2014July 1, 2025 by Dissent

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…

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Commentary: We need a congressional inquiry into the MCCCD breach

Posted on May 17, 2014July 1, 2025 by Dissent

President Truman had a sign on his desk that said, “The buck stops here.” We could use more of that accountability when it comes to data breaches in the education sector. Back in 2006, when I first began blogging about data breaches on PogoWasRight.org, I covered a series of breaches at Ohio University. One of the things that…

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