Shaun Walker reports: Athletes and spectators attending the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February will face some of the most invasive and systematic spying and surveillance in the history of the Games, documents shared with the Guardian show. Russia’s powerful FSB security service plans to ensure that no communication by competitors or spectators goes unmonitored…
Category: Govt
China pays 2 million to monitor Internet
AFP reports: China is employing two million people to keep tabs on people’s Internet use, according to state media, in a rare glimpse into the secret world of Beijing’s vast online surveillance operation. Many of the employees are simply performing keyword searches to monitor the tens of millions of messages being posted daily on popular…
Kentucky Marketplace: ‘WARNING: No Explicit or Implicit Expectation of Privacy’
Elizabeth Harrington reports: The Kentucky Obamacare marketplace has no “expectation of privacy,” warning its prospective customers that their information can be monitored and shared with government bureaucrats. When clicking “let’s get started” on the state-run health insurance marketplace “kynect,” the user is quickly prompted to a “WARNING NOTICE.” “This is a government computer system and is…
NSA Phone Records Collection Can’t Be Challenged By The Callers, Government Argues
Matt Sledge reports: The government is arguing in the terrorism case that serves as the National Security Agency’s primary public justification for its bulk collection of telephone records that criminal defendants have no constitutional right to challenge the agency’s sweeping surveillance program. In a filing made Sept. 30, U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy of the Southern District of…