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Reddit Warrant Canary Gets Triggered
Since Edward Snowden first brought light to the United States use of National Security Letters, various internet companies have taken to enacting warrant canaries as a way to let users know if they ever do to receive a National Security Letter. One notable organization, reddit previously had a warrant canary in their annual…
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NSA Kept E-Mail Metadata Program After Claiming it Ended in 2011
Following the massive leak of surveillance data by whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013, it was revealed that the US National Security Agency (NSA – its headquarters pictured above) had been collecting e-mail metadata as part of a program it claimed ended in 2011. However, a lawsuit filed by the New…
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FISA Court Orders U.S Government To Review Secretive NSA Surveillance Rules
According to an RT report the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) has served an order on the current U.S government to move forward with the declassification of legal documents and court opinions relating to the bulk collection of domestic phone records. The FISC court made such a landmark decision…
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FISA Court Believed NSA Spying Was Unconstitutional As Far Back As 2011
According to declassified documents revealed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation the USA’s FISA court found that NSA spying had been unconstitutional since 2011. Three years after congress authorized the surveillance the FISA court found that the collection was unconstitutional and it ordered the NSA to find ways to limit what…
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NSA To Declassify Documents About PRISM And Other Programs
A senior American official has told CNN that the U.S government intends to declassify some documents about NSA spying programs to the American public. Apparently the declassification will occur in the next few days and will include white papers providing a comprehensive overview and information on NSA surveillance programs. Furthermore…
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FBI And NSA Request Master Encryption Keys From Developers
Would you hand your keys to just anyone, I sure wouldn’t. That isn’t stopping the United States Federal Government from asking encryption developers to hand over their keys, encryption keys that is. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National Security Agency (NSA) have been attacking the digital world…
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Yahoo Wins Motion To Declassify Court Documents From PRISM Case
According to a report by the Daily Dot, Yahoo has won a motion from the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to declassify and publicly reveal information about Yahoo’s efforts to avoid becoming part of PRISM. The details surround a 2008 case in which Yahoo objected to being part of a…
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Microsoft Asks To Be Able To Disclose FISA Requests
We’ve already seen the likes of Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft release some data about government requests. Yet now Microsoft is taking things one step further and it says it wants permission to be able to release information about data requests made under the FISA legislation. Previously Microsoft and other…
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New Privacy Bill Seeks To Reform FISA And Patriot Act, More Transparency On Surveillance
The NSA PRISM scandal has caused outrage across the USA and the world, you can check our extensive coverage of developments with PRISM here. The latest development comes from within the USA itself and seeks to prevent such a scandal happening again. The new bill which has been presented to…
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Microsoft Follows Facebook In Releasing Government Request Data To The Public
Microsoft, Google and Facebook all joined together recently to demand more transparency about government data requests and being able to reveal details of these to their user base. Facebook recently revealed that it had to release data on some some 19,000 individuals at the legal request of the American government. Yet…
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Facebook Released 19,000 Users Data To Spy Requests From The American Government
A couple of days ago we told you that Facebook, Microsoft and Google were demanding permission to reveal spy requests. Today Facebook claimed a minor victory in being able to partially reveal some information about American government data requests. In the last 6 months of 2012 the U.S government made…
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“StopWatching.Us” Passes 100,000 Signatures Already
We brought you the news that Mozilla and others had launched their “StopWatching.Us” campaign just a few days ago and it has already managed to achieved 100,000 signatures of support in quite a short space of time. The marks the beginning of what could be a long and draw out…
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PRISM Whistleblower Has Evidence That The USA Has Hacked China Since 2009
Edward Snowden is today a world icon in the spotlight after leaking details of the top secret American PRISM surveillance program. He reiterated the sentiment that the USA is “hacking everyone everywhere” today in an interview with the South China Morning Post. Apparently the USA has conducted over 61,000 global…
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NSA Director Claims They Stopped Dozens Of Attacks With PRISM
General Keith Alexander is the head of the American National Security Agency. You can only imagine how much pressure he has come under recently due to the emergence of the PRISM scandal and he was recently brought before Congress to defend the PRISM program. General Alexander stood before the U.S…
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Facebook, Microsoft & Google Demand Permission To Reveal Spy Requests
In the wake of being subject to bad press due to the whole “PRISM” data collection scandal, Facebook, Microsoft and Google have all been adamant to get permission to reveal details of secret FISA (foreign intelligence surveillance act) requests, according to Softpedia. This is because Facebook, Microsoft and Google want…
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