Tag Archives: Privacy of telecommunications

House Passes USA Freedom Act to Annul NSA Spying Program

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National Security Agency aka NSA has become a wide known secret worldwide and what has become even more evident is the NSA’s projects of spying on the general public. Only depicted in movies and...

Twitter Takes Fight for Transparency to Court

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Twitter is suing the U.S. government for allegedly restricting the microblogging platform from publicly reporting the scope of surveillance on its users."Our ability to speak has been restricted by...

Snowden’s Proof Regarding FISA Court’s NSA Authorization to Spy on 4 Countries

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Some of the most recent documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden show that the FISA court actually had the guts to allow the NSA free access to the private information lines of each and...

NSA collects all phone calls in a foreign country

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Agency has been recording all of a foreign country's phone calls, then listening to the conversations up to a month later, The Washington Post reported Tuesday...

US sues Sprint over company’s wiretap expenses

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal officials filed a lawsuit Monday alleging that Sprint Communications Inc. overbilled government agencies $21 million for wiretap services. The lawsuit filed federal court...

A Deeper look into NSA spying: Watch Jacob Applebaum Videos

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This post originally appeared on securitycurrent. The reactions to the depth and scope of the NSA’s surveillance apparatus has varied from ho-hum, “that’s their job,” to OMG “it’s the end of the...

States Scrambling to Curtail government surveillance

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States hope steps to rein in government surveillance will prompt federal changes PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Angry over revelations of National Security Agency surveillance and frustrated with what they...

It Is A Scandal That No One is Investigating the NSA

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I am simply stunned that others have not been calling for a full investigation of the NSA surveillance program (see earlier blog).  It has been nearly eight months since The Guardian’s first...

US looking to stop spying on NSA spying

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AP Exclusive: US considers how to prevent spying on NSA's searches of Americans' phone records WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Obama administration considers ending the storage of millions of phone records...

Gov’t, Internet companies Agree at last on disclosure

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US reaches deal with Internet companies on requests to reveal demands for customer information WASHINGTON (AP) — Technology companies and privacy advocates are praising a new government compromise...