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- WHO cancer agency asked experts to withhold glyphosate (Roundup) documents http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-cancer-iarc-exclusive-idUSKCN12P2FW 2 comments
- Public Health Agency refusing to disclose uncensored documents on Winnipeg virus lab https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/public-health-agency-refusing-to-disclose-uncensored-documents-on-winnipeg-virus-lab/ar-bb1gczqb?ocid=msedgdhp 6 comments worldnews
- All Oversight Democrats Send Document Request to White House and Agencies on Hurricane Response https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/all-oversight-democrats-send-document-request-to-white-house-and-agencies-on 7 comments politics
- EFF Sues California Law Enforcement Agency For Refusing To Hand Over Stingray Documents https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181027/12303040923/eff-sues-california-law-enforcement-agency-refusing-to-hand-over-stingray-documents.shtml 34 comments technology
- Accidentally-released documents show Interior agency prioritized industry over public lands https://thinkprogress.org/interior-zinke-public-lands-oil-drilling-d8a4cc51c5d2/ 9 comments politics
- Documents obtained by Privacy International show that UK intelligence agencies may analyse our Facebook and Twitter accounts https://www.privacyinternational.org/node/1532 5 comments technology
- Canada’s leading surveillance agency is monitoring millions of Internet users’ file downloads in a dragnet search to identify extremists, according to top-secret documents https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/28/canada-cse-levitation-mass-surveillance/?rss=1 16 comments worldnews
- Newly published NSA documents show agency could grab all Skype traffic http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/newly-published-nsa-documents-show-agency-could-grab-all-skype-traffic/ 51 comments worldnews
- US intelligence agencies are removing from public access thousands of historical documents, a report says. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4735570.stm 4 comments reddit.com
- DeSantis ‘review’ of public records can add months of delays, newly uncovered log reveals. State agencies sent hundreds of records to governor’s legal team for review before release, documents show https://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/2023/02/28/desantis-review-of-public-records-can-add-months-of-delays-newly-uncovered-log-reveals/ 5 comments law
- The Central Intelligence Agency has published nearly 13 million pages of declassified documents online. http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/17/politics/cia-documents-online/index.html 15 comments politics
- Spy agencies say Clinton emails closely matched top secret documents: sources http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idusmtzsapec2o2mglxl 78 comments politics
- WHO cancer agency asked experts to withhold weedkiller documents they were asked to release under United States freedom of information laws http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-cancer-iarc-exclusive-iduskcn12p2fw 409 comments worldnews
- [N1] State Investigation and Protection Agency demands documents from dodgy contracts Bosnian FA made https://ba.n1info.com/sport-klub/nogomet/sipa-od-n-fs-bih-trazi-dokumente-o-spornim-ugovorima-foto/ 4 comments soccer
- Judicial Watch: New State Department documents reveal top agency officials raised questions about Clinton emails in early August 2013 http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-new-state-department-documents-reveal-top-agency-officials-raised-questions-clinton-emails-early-august-2013/ 3 comments politics
- Coast Guard Fired at Migrant Boats, European Border Agency Documents Show https://theintercept.com/2016/08/22/coast-guard-fired-at-migrant-boats-european-border-agency-documents-show/ 6 comments worldnews
- According to documents leaked by Edward Snowden, U.S. spy agencies mounted 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-spy-agencies-mounted-231-offensive-cyber-operations-in-2011-documents-show/2013/08/30/d090a6ae-119e-11e3-b4cb-fd7ce041d814_story.html 11 comments worldnews
- Recently released documents show that New Zealand police possibly got illegal help from spying apparatus set up by America's National Security Agency in order to bust Megaupload's Kim Dotcom http://www.businessinsider.com/new-zealand-police-kim-dotcom-prism-nsa-2013-8 65 comments worldnews
- The NSA Breach of Telekom and Other German Firms: According to top-secret documents from the NSA and the British agency GCHQ, the intelligence agencies are seeking to map the entire internet, including end-user devices http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/snowden-documents-indicate-nsa-has-breached-deutsche-telekom-a-991503.html 4 comments technology
- XKeyscore: A Dubious Deal with the NSA - Internal documents show that Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the BfV, received the coveted software program XKeyscore from the NSA – and promised data from Germany in return. http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2015-08/xkeyscore-nsa-domestic-intelligence-agency 3 comments germany
- Without public notice or debate, the Obama administration has expanded the National Security Agency‘s warrantless surveillance of Americans’ international Internet traffic to search for evidence of malicious computer hacking, according to classified N.S.A. documents. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/us/hunting-for-hackers-nsa-secretly-expands-internet-spying-at-us-border.html?partner=rss&emc=rss 3 comments politics
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the government Thursday demanding a judge order the feds to release documents allegedly showing the National Security Agency unlawfully surveilled Americans’ e-mails and telephone calls. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/eff-spy-documents/ 5 comments politics
- U.K. Spies Trying to Crack Guardian Reporter's Passwords: 'British police seized a trove of leaked secret surveillance documents from the partner of Greenwald at a London airport. Now, the country’s top spy agency has been drafted in helping crack passwords Greenwald was using to protect the files.' http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/08/30/glenn_greenwald_nsa_leaks_u_k_tries_to_crack_passwords_on_guardian_journalist.html 4 comments worldnews
- The BC Civil Liberties Association has released 'The Protest Papers': thousands of heavily redacted documents by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) that show how the agency illegally spied on activists and environmentalists https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/csis-protesters-energy-documents-1.5203496 5 comments worldnews
- The Intercept has obtained a secret, internal U.S. government catalog of dozens of cellphone surveillance devices used by the military and intelligence agencies. The document also offers rare insight into the spying capabilities of federal law enforcement and local police inside the United States. https://theintercept.com/2015/12/17/a-secret-catalogue-of-government-gear-for-spying-on-your-cellphone/ 42 comments technology
- "House Republicans are threatening to shut down part of the State Department if the Obama administration doesn’t cough up more documents related to Hillary Clinton’s helming of the agency during the Benghazi attacks." http://thehill.com/policy/defense/242611-gop-threatens-states-funding-in-benghazi-fight 19 comments politics
- GCHQ views data without a warrant, government admits | British intel services can access raw material collected in bulk by the NSA and other foreign spy agencies without a warrant - GCHQ’s secret ‘arrangements’ for accessing bulk material revealed in documents submitted to UK surveillance watchdog http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/29/gchq-nsa-data-surveillance 21 comments worldnews
- CIA halts spying in Europe: The CIA has curbed spying on friendly gov'ts in Western Europe, according to current and former U.S. officials. The move is in response to the furor over a German caught selling secrets to the US and the Snowden revelations of classified National Security Agency documents http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/ap-exclusive-cia-halts-spying-in-europe/2014/09/19/2c45e238-4016-11e4-a430-b82a3e67b762_story.html?tid=rssfeed 12 comments worldnews
- Charlie Villanueva will be documenting his experience with free agency over a series of blogs. Spoiler alert: Will not end with another 5 year, $35M contract http://charlievillanueva.sportsblog.com/post/759886/crossroads_webisode_week_1_free.html 8 comments nba
- The New York City's MTA Is Breached by Hackers as Cyberattacks Surge: Hackers with suspected ties to China penetrated the New York transit agency’s computer systems in April, an M.T.A. document shows. Transit officials say the intrusion did not pose a risk to riders https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/nyregion/mta-cyber-attack.html?action=click&module=top%20stories&pgtype=homepage 9 comments worldnews
- A top-secret document dated February 2011 reveals that British spy agency GCHQ, with the knowledge and apparent cooperation of the NSA, acquired the capability to covertly exploit security vulnerabilities in 13 different models of firewalls made by Juniper Networks https://theintercept.com/2015/12/23/juniper-firewalls-successfully-targeted-by-nsa-and-gchq/ 59 comments programming
- Australia asked Americans for more help to spy on Australian citizens | Documents from US agency show that Canberra spies pleaded for help to increase surveillance on terror suspects http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/13/australia-americans-help-spy-terror-suspects 6 comments worldnews
- Explosive document shows "Foreign Intelligence Agencies" like GCHQ secretly target domestic dissidents and common criminals. "GCHQ victimized Anonymous supporters with DDoS attack" http://blogs.csoonline.com/other/2976/britains-gchq-victimized-anonymous-supporters-ddos-attack 41 comments worldnews
- Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data — "documents show the agency collecting almost 3 billion pieces of intelligence from US computer networks over a 30-day period ending in March 2013" http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-boundless-informant-global-datamining?guni=network+front%3Anetwork-front+full-width-1+bento-box%3Abento+box%3Aposition1 10 comments technology
- Clearview’s Facial Recognition App Has Been Used By The Justice Department, ICE, Macy’s, Walmart, And The NBA | A BuzzFeed News review of Clearview AI documents has revealed the company is working with more than 2,200 law enforcement agencies, companies, and individuals around the world. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/ryanmac/clearview-ai-fbi-ice-global-law-enforcement 3 comments technology
- The Supreme Court of Canada and a senior executive with the Canada Revenue Agency anxiously reached out to Canada's communications spy agency for help after the CBC revealed cellphone tracking technology was being used near Parliament Hill, according to documents. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cse-supreme-court-cra-cellphone-trackers-1.4360759 3 comments worldnews
- WikiLeaks publishes highly classified documents showing that the US National Security Agency bugged a private climate change strategy meeting; between UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin https://wikileaks.org/nsa-201602/ 4 comments technology
- Sony Pictures Demands That News Agencies Delete ‘Stolen’ Data: a prominent lawyer hired by Sony, characterized the documents as “stolen information” and demanded that they be avoided, and destroyed if they had already been downloaded or otherwise acquired. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/15/business/sony-pictures-demands-that-news-organizations-delete-stolen-data.html?smid=re-share 4 comments worldnews
- The Obama administration is drawing up plans to give all U.S. spy agencies full access to a massive database that contains financial data on American citizens and others who bank in the country, according to a Treasury Department document. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/13/usa-banks-spying-idindee92c0eh20130313 45 comments technology
- FBI considered Occupy movement potential threat, documents say - CNN.com: "FBI counterterrorism agents were in close communication with law enforcement agencies, businesses, universities and other organizations across the country about the Occupy Wall Street movement" http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/26/us/fbi-occupy/index.html 3 comments politics