Tag Archives: Privacy of telecommunications

Proposed spy phone record shift draws resistance

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Proposal to shift surveillance phone record retention away from government drawing resistance WASHINGTON (AP) — Telephone companies are quietly balking at the idea of changing how they...
    






Government moves to appeal surveillance ruling

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Government lawyers appeal ruling that threatens NSA phone surveillance program WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration moved Friday to ask the secretive U.S. spy court to allow the...
    






Privacy advocate exposes NSA spy gear at gathering

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Infected iPhones, radar wave devices, and more: Activist pulls curtain back on NSA spy gear LONDON (AP) — A well-known privacy advocate has given the public an unusually explicit peek...
    






NY judge rules NSA phone surveillance is legal

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NY judge concludes NSA phone surveillance is legal, rejecting ACLU effort to halt program NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Friday found that the National Security Agency's bulk...
    






NSA Used 1976 Robbery Case to Justify Spying

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The National Security Agency has used a small robbery case as its justification for spying. The 1976 Baltimore case actually laid the legal grounds for today's global government surveillance. NSA has...
    






Judge rules NSA phone spying program ‘unconstitutional’

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U.S. District Judge, Richard Leon, ruled today that the NSA's phone surveillance program violated the Fourth Amendment, saying that it is likely unconstitutional and almost Orwellian.The federal...
    






NSA Analysts Abused Their Surveillance Powers

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There are times when the powers that govern tend to overstep their boundaries. Especially in the name of acts of zealous morality many crimes against humanity may be committed. Take the case of the...

NSA Audit Confirms it Breaks Privacy Rules Regularly

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As inside auditing showed, the NSA broke the law thousands of time by its surreptitious surveillance methods. It delved into the private conversations of both US citizens and foreign nationals in the...

NSA surveillance programs detailed in leaked documents

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The pieces are finally beginning to fall into place.Right after reports that Edward Snowden distributed copies of highly-classified NSA documents to several people this week, The Guardian published a...

Yahoo Disclosed US Data Requests

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Following Microsoft, Facebook and Google, Yahoo has also disclosed the number of user data requests it get US government. In an exclamation statement to public, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has unveiled...