Documents Show The NSA's Abuse Of Its Phone Records Collection Continued...
The NSA may have extremely belatedly decided to give up its bulk phone records collection, but that’s only after years of dysfunction, abuse, and escalating uselessness. The problems with the NSA’s...
View ArticleRussian Spy Discovers The Hard Way How Much His Smartphone's Metadata Reveals...
Smartphones are not just amazing pieces of technology that pack a range of advanced capabilities into a pocket-sized device. They are also the best tracking device invented so far. They reveal where...
View ArticleFBI Asks Congress To Permanently Reauthorize The Phone Record Collection The...
Earlier this year, the NSA — after a few months of hedging — finally mothballed its phone record collection program. The modified phone metadata collection had posed problems for the NSA since its...
View ArticleNSA Blew $100 Million On Phone Records Over Five Years, Generated Exactly One...
The telephone metadata program the NSA finally put out to pasture in 2019 was apparently well past its expiration date. Since the initial Snowden leak in 2013, critics have argued the program needed...
View ArticleGovernment Argues In Court That It Can Kill US Citizens At Will With Zero...
The federal government is back in court, arguing for its unilateral right to kill US citizens. Two journalists who had appeared to have been mistakenly targeted by drone strikes sued the government in...
View ArticlePatriot Act Used By The FBI To Collect Internet Browsing Data, Contradicting...
The NSA shut down its bulk phone records collection — authorized under Section 215 — after it became apparent it wasn’t worth the effort. Reforms put in place by the USA Freedom Act prevented the...
View ArticleDefense Department Is Buying Domestic Internet Metadata From Data Brokers
Joseph Cox broke the news for Motherboard late last year: the US military was also making use of location data purchased from data brokers, joining a host of other federal agencies that seemed to feel...
View ArticleProtonMail Turned Over French Activist's IP Address To Law Enforcement...
ProtonMail has long advertised itself as a particularly privacy-conscious email service. The free end-to-end encrypted email service promises more privacy and security than many of its competitors....
View ArticleHow Dare Signal Protect Its Users From Surveillance, Asks Ethicist Who...
Oh, man. This is just dumb as fuck. There’s no way around it. The New York Times seems extremely willing to suffer fools (especially its own!) Here’s yet another fool given prime internet/printed real...
View ArticleSurveillance Tech Firm Scraps US Marketing Force, May Just Continue Selling...
Make enough bad choices and, sooner or later, those decisions are going to come back to haunt you. Or, at least, haunt the 50 or so employees you’ve laid off because your past performance has made it...
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