Ewen MacAskill reports: Yahoo on Monday joined other US technology giants in launching legal action against the federal government over the NSA surveillance revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Yahoo filed a suit in the foreign intelligence surveillance (Fisa) court, which provides the legal framework for NSA surveillance, to allow the company to make public the…
Category: Govt
Obama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011
Ellen Nakashima reports: The Obama administration secretly won permission from a surveillance court in 2011 to reverse restrictions on the National Security Agency’s use of intercepted phone calls and e-mails, permitting the agency to search deliberately for Americans’ communications in its massive databases, according to interviews with government officials and recently declassified material. Read more on…
Yahoo’s first transparency report
Yahoo has issued its first transparency report. It covers the period January 1, 2013 through June 30, 2013. In its overview to the report, Yahoo’s counsel Ron Bell notes that requests for user data impact “comprised less than one one-hundredth of one percent (<.01%) of our worldwide user base.” Zach Miners of Computerworld recaps the report, but…
Reports: NSA has compromised most internet encryption
Jack Clark reports: The NSA and the GCHQ have compromised much encryption used on the internet through a potent mix of technological heft, spycraft, and collaboration with major technology companies, according to new reports. In a series of news articles that highlight how the code-breaking crypto-fiddling agencies NSA and GCHQ are doing their job, ProPublica, The New York…