By Justin Elliott ProPublica, July 23, 2013, 12:39 p.m. The NSA is a “supercomputing powerhouse” with machines so powerful their speed is measured in thousands of trillions of operations per second. The agency turns its giant machine brains to the task of sifting through unimaginably large troves of data its surveillance programs capture. But ask…
Category: Govt
Congress Votes on an Amendment to Defund Domestic Spying: Here’s How You Can Help
From EFF: The House is gearing up for a vote on the Defense Appropriations Bill (basically, the budget for the Department of Defense) and a bipartisan coalition of Representatives will be introducing a novel amendmentthat attempts to strike at funding for one type of particularly egregious surveillance power of the NSA. EFF thinks this amendment is an important…
Idaho Cooperates with Homeland Security on National ID
Jim Harper writes: In June 2011, I noted here how a new cardless national ID system was forming up using state driver license data. It hasn’t gone very far. Passage of an immigration reform bill containing a national E-Verify requirement would slam down the gas pedal. But a few days ago, Idaho became the third state in the union…
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Renews Authority to Collect Telephony Metadata
Posted in total disgust, this announcement from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence: July 19, 2013 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Renews Authority to Collect Telephony Metadata As indicated by a previously classified court order disclosed by the media on June 5, 2013, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court authorization requiring the production of…