Chris Good reports: NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander addressed the new Guardian reports of mass U.S. email collection on Thursday, saying the NSA terminated the program because it was ineffective and wasn’t worth the risk to citizens’ privacy. The Guardian, to which Edward Snowden leaked details of a broad U.S. program to collect phone records…
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EPIC FOIA Document Reveals CIA Collaboration in Domestic Surveillance
From EPIC.org: According to a Central Intelligence Agency Inspector General’s report obtained by EPIC under the Freedom of Information Act, the CIA collaborated with the New York Police Department in domestic surveillance efforts. The CIA is prohibited from participating in domestic surveillance, but the report finds that the agency had embedded four officers within the NYPD over…
NSA collected US email records in bulk for more than two years under Obama
Glenn Greenwald and Spencer Ackerman disclose more from files leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden: The Obama administration for more than two years permitted the National Security Agency to continue collecting vast amounts of records detailing the email and internet usage of Americans, according to secret documents obtained by the Guardian. The documents indicate that under the program, launched in…
Student group “Europe vs. Facebook” challenges firms over NSA data transfers
Cyrus Farivar reports: In the wake of the disclosure of the National Security Agency’s mass digital surveillance program, a group of Austrian students have filed a series of formal complaints with a number of European data protection agencies. The case could become the first legal proceeding challenging disclosure of non-American data to the American government on the…