Tag Archives: United States government secrecy

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 Director Defends Spying Policy

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The director of the NSA has said that there is no better methodology of getting the terrorists among us than to track the telephone calls of Americans. Though it was an invasion of privacy yet it was...
    






NSA allegedly using Google cookies to track suspects

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Criticisms hurled at the NSA for its surveillance practices are not yet over. The Washington Post reports that the agency also tapped on Google's advertising cookies to zero in on suspected...
    






NSA and GCHQ spied gaming communities to uncover terrorist plots

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A new report suggests that the National Security Agency's spying activities go beyond the walls of the real world. According to a secret document disclosed by Edward Snowden, the NSA and its sister...
    






Microsoft to Begin Internet Traffic Encryption Against NSA Snooping

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After Google, Facebook and Yahoo started encrypting their internet traffic, so as to escape the clutches of the NSA, Microsoft is following suit. The wake-up call may have come too late but as they...

NSA Spies on International Financial Networks

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The NSA is guilty of another crime and that is spying on anyone via the VISA or SWIFT networks. In a way it was expected that a surveillance agency would go that far in its activities. This is the...

Google Boosts User Data Encryption Against NSA Surveillance

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Google is on the rampage to encrypt loads of user data in order to protect it from the ravenous clutches of the NSA. After Edward Snowden spilled the beans there was widespread outrage among public...

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 says it monitors only 1.6 percent of overall daily Internet traffic

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Following President Obama's announcement to reform government surveillance, the NSA released a document saying that of the overall 1,826 petabytes of information per day on the Internet, the NSA...