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Any effort that tries to rebuild the well-behaved aspects of the system but ignores the critical role of whistleblowers is sure to fail. 
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On March 10, 2015, represented by the ACLU, the Wikimedia Foundation and eight co-plaintiffs filed suit against the NSA, the Justice Department, and
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Wikipedia is suing the NSA for mass surveillance http://t.co/Y80sEnWNMm Erodes Internet as "an open space for collaboration…free from fear”
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One of the most shocking parts of the recently discovered spying network Equation Group is its mysterious module designed to reprogram or reflash a computer’s firmware with malicious code.
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If you thought warrantless wiretapping by our own intelligence community was bad enough, Reuters reports that documents released by NSA whistleblower and GAP client Edward Snowden show Canada has “its own globe-spanning Internet surveillance”...
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The NSA revelations highlight the role sophisticated algorithms play in sifting through masses of data. But more surprising is their widespread use in our everyday lives. So should we be more wary of their power?
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The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has worked with the National Security Agency (NSA) on the release of Niagarafiles (or Nifi, to the initiated) technology designed to “automate data flows” among multiple computer networks.
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There’s just one catch: In exchange for the major corporate backing,
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An already tumultuous New Zealand election campaign took another dramatic turn less than a week before polling day when the prime minister, John Key, responded angrily to claims by the American journalist Glenn Greenwald that he had been "deceiving the public" over assurances on spying.
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ICREACH has been accessible to more than 1,000 analysts at 23 U.S. government agencies that perform intelligence work, according to a 2010 memo. A planning document from 2007 lists the DEA, FBI, Central Intelligence Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency as core members. Information shared through ICREACH can be used to track people’s movements, map out their networks of associates, help predict future actions, and potentially reveal religious affiliations or political beliefs.
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Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden says the NSA was responsible for a 2012 Syrian Internet outage, in a new profile published Wednesday by Wired:
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It turns out that one of the researchers who ran Facebook's recent psychological experiments received funding from the U.S. Department of Defense to study the contagion of ideas
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After Edward Snowden's occasionally hilarious interview with British comedian John Oliver, we know that many people's main concern when it comes to privacy is the U.S.
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Justice presides with her scale and sword at Frankfurt am Main. Photo by Roland Meinecke, licensed under a Free Art license.
4 Alex Walters's curator insight,
March 12, 2015 10:52 AM
I completely agree with Wikimedia' s lawsuit against the NSA, I understand the need for heightened security in the nation but not the invasion of peoples privacy such as the mass surveillance act.Like its stated in the article the mass tapping of the internet is a restriction of our freedom of speech and privacy.
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The United States Central Intelligence Agency has been involved in a “multi-year effort” to break through Apple’s security code, according to a new report from the Intercept.
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March 11, 2015 7:46 AM
Here is a good example that shows how technology and innovation can reduce our freedom. Indeed, while technology offers to people new ways of communication and make our life easier, it also reduce our personal privacy because all our technological products could be under surveillance.. An article from The Intercept!
4 Miriam Hall's curator insight,
March 12, 2015 10:20 AM
CIA/NSA
What the heck. Apparently the CIA has full access to our phones, history, apple accounts, call/message logs, etc. This was probably in the terms and agreements no one read.
As creepy as this is, I think its a good thing, The CIA having access to phones has the potential to deter, if not prevent terrorism.
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Britain and America broke the law by intercepting electronic communications in bulk, and they can no longer claim otherwise
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Following revelations about the government’s role in collecting telephone metadata last year, new documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal intimate details about which Internet communications the NSA can – and can’t – monitor.
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The revelations of the large-scale Edward Snowden debacle that unfolded earlier this year is proving to be incredibly controversial, as some view him as a traitor and some view him as a saint.
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The NSA was one of the first organizations to describe a Bitcoin-like system.
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Last week, Al-Jazeera caused a minor shitstorm by publishing a short stack of emails between ex-NSA Director Keith Alexander and Google execs Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt.
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In the wake of the mass NSA surveillance scandal sparked by whistleblower Edward Snowden, all sorts of hackers, academics, startups, and major corporations are working to build tools that let us more easily secure our email messages and other online communications.
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In his latest interview, this time with the Guardian, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden stressed again that his continued stay in Russia is no indication of allegiance nor subterfuge with the Kremlin. Rather, he said, Russia is a place of greater safety while the US refuses to let him bring a public interest defense to court against the Espionage Act charges he faces in America.
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The question of how foreign policy is determined is a crucial one in world affairs. In these comments, I can only provide a few hints as to how I think the subject can be productively explored, keeping to the United States for several reasons. First, the U.S. is unmatched in its global significance and impact. Second, it is an unusually open society, possibly uniquely so, which means we know more about it. Finally, it is plainly the most important case for Americans, who are able to influence policy choices in the U.S. -- and indeed for others, insofar as their actions can influence such choices. The general principles, however, extend to the other major powers, and well beyond.
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