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Eighteen-page presidential memo reveals how Barack Obama has ordered intelligence officials to draw up a list of potential overseas targets for US cyber attacks
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On making war in cyber-space. Hooray for the human spirit. Delete the scoop?
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Lawyers have raised a ruckus as the government’s secret surveillance programs come to light. But for years, laws have largely failed to stop the spread of surveillance — is it time to turn to technology instead?
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One way to escape surveillance -- maybe. Delete the scoop?
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Electronic surveillance of information about calls and e-mails can reveal hidden patterns behind terror attacks.
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What they can do with metadata with illustrations. Remember the former CIA director who was embarrassed by the FBI into resigning -- using metadata. And lots of others. Delete the scoop?
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Two of the NSA’s four main collection programs target revealing metadata from Web, phone communications.
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The whole sorry story reviewed -- or at least as much of the story as the Post has been able to ferret out. They claim there are controls, but we are not able to know what they are. They are classified. So there you stupid citizens who must not know what we are doing in your name! Delete the scoop?
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The Financial Times is quoting three senior EU officials as saying an “anti-FISA” clause was taken out of the EU’s proposed data protection legislation, after senior U.S. figures lobbied against it.
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June 13, 3:39 PM
For some reason Europeans are angry about being spied on by the US National Security Administration. Don't they know it is for their own good? Delete the scoop?
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“I have nothing to hide. Why should I care if the NSA has my phone records?” Because the very presence of the spy machine affects us and poisons us.
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Did we really elect a president to create a surveillance society? The answer seems to be there is nothing we can do about it. Delete the scoop?
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The Financial Times is quoting three senior EU officials as saying an “anti-FISA” clause was taken out of the EU’s proposed data protection legislation, after senior U.S. figures lobbied against it.
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For some reason Europeans are angry about being spied on by the US National Security Administration. Don't they know it is for their own good? Delete the scoop?
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In an interview with a Hong Kong paper, Edward Snowden asserts the U.S. has mounted hacking operations against hundreds of Chinese targets since 2009.
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Surprise, surprise -- the US hacks into Chinese computers/communication to what is probably equal to what the Chinese do in the US. And Mr. Snowden is more confident in the court system in Hong Kong than the US court system. Delete the scoop?
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The Obama administration declassified a handful of details Tuesday that credited its PRISM Internet spying program with intercepting a key email that unraveled a 2009 terrorist plot in New York.
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We caught one bad guy. What more can you ask. Except according to the Miami Herald.
In the rush to defend the surveillance programs, however, government officials have changed their stories and misstated key facts of the Zazi plot. And they've left out one important detail: The email that disrupted the plan could easily have been intercepted without PRISM. Delete the scoop?
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Only .03 percent of requests have been turned down
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This is it -- judicial oversight. Delete the scoop?
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John just posted some survey results comparing attitudes about secret National Security Agency wiretapping, comparing polls in 2006 and 2013. At first glance, support for the surveillance seems sli...
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It's the Rasmussen approach to surveying. How you ask the question makes enough difference in the results that you can get the results of moment. Delete the scoop?
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TechCrunch is a leading technology media property, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news.
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How badly out of whack are our laws? Hacking the computer accounts of rapists is a worse crime than the rape. Can anyone justify that? Only members of congress who cannot bring themselves to change it. It is national security at stake. Rape is nothing compared to that. Delete the scoop?
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There is a certain jollity in the reactions of the webby class to news that the NSA has been, first, spying on Verizon communications for years, and second has approached multiple information-gathering startups, hat in hand, asking for access to...
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One version of how we got here -- with great sardonic detail. Delete the scoop?
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Disconnect, a site that claims to block ad tracking tools while also improving browsing speed, received a major investment and “B Corporation” certification.
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Another way to escape surveillance -- maybe.
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Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama's approval rating dropped eight percentage points over the past month, to 45%, the president's lowest rating in more than a year and a half, according to a new national poll.
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"Six in 10 disapprove of how Obama is handling government surveillance of U.S. citizens, which is higher than the 52% who disapproved of George W. Bush on the same issue in 2006, when government surveillance was also in the headlines." Delete the scoop?
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In 26 states, authorities can search or request a search of driver’s-license pictures in facial-recognition systems.
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You probably thought your photograph on your driver's license was about driving. Think again. You have just entered a permanent line-up if you live in one of the right 26 states. Delete the scoop?
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National Security Agency discloses in secret Capitol Hill briefing that thousands of analysts can listen to domestic phone calls. That authorization appears to extend to e-mail and text messages too.
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A review of claims by the NSA that have turned out to be false. Apparently, special interpretation of words is a specialty when it comes to revealing their work. The upshot -- they can look at anything they want to look at or listen to. This is uncontrolled spying on citizens of the US and the world. Delete the scoop?
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The appeal asked the U.S. to deport a well-connected Chinese woman accused of trying to poison her college roommate in the 1990s.
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This is global communication! A petition to the White House for which most signatures were from outside the U.S. Delete the scoop?
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The legal battle over PRISM and the NSA's phone records program is only getting under way, but advocacy groups are striking while the issue is hot. Stop Watching Us, a website that ...
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It's a petition campaign that will make it if enough people sign. Delete the scoop?
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Sen. Barbara Mikulski, Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, called out a reporter's tweets in real-time during a hearing Wednesday.
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Another Twitter first. Reporter post tweet. Senator reads it. Then senator reads it out loud, and responds. Real time reaction/refutation. Delete the scoop?
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), along with the New York Civil Liberties Union, has filed a lawsuit against the United States government over the National Security Agency's ...
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One voice for the constitution. Delete the scoop?
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The debate tips toward taking action when U.S. officials believe Inspire promotes an imminent threat.
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Your tax dollars at work. Hacking an internet magazine that was then taken down within an hour and the original version put up. The NSA at work protecting freedom of speech, er . . . Delete the scoop?
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Web users in the country seem to see him as both a fellow activists against corruption and a repudiation of Western lecturing.
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He's a hero in China if not in his own country. Perhaps "a prophet without honor in his own country," which has been civilization for a long time.
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Despite the conniption fit over the National Security Agency's Internet snooping, most Americans are perfectly okay with Big Brother spying on them.
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Whisper -- there is a threat that is so great we cannot tell you about it. But you should let us do whatever we want because of this threat that is too secret it must not be revealed.
That argument will justify anything if you are sucker enough to fall for it.
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Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old Booz Allen Hamilton employee, says he’s “done nothing wrong” in leak of the government’s surveillance programs.
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Oh, now we are in for a public contest. If he willingly identifies himself how are they going to keep his mouth shut. Solitary confinement at Quantamo without access to a lawyer? I am sure the Justice (?) Department is up to it. Delete the scoop?
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